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English III

Goal 2, Objective 2.02

Goal 2

The learner will inform an audience by using a variety of media to research and explain insights into language and culture.

Objective 2.02

Examine and explain how culture influences language through projects such as:
- showing the evolution of forms of communication in the United States (e.g., the Pony Express, telegraph, telephone, fax, e-mail).
- tracing the development of technology in a particular area such as audio or video recordings, radio, television, and film.
- demonstrating proficiency in accessing and sending information electronically, using conventions appropriate to the audience.

Resources aligned to this objective

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Family Story with Research
Using the book, When The Legends Die and a Native American story-telling unit, students gather a family story of their own.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
By Eric Broer.
Turning the Century
Students will create a museum display illustrating life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
By Lisa Stamey.

Lesson plans on the web

Analyzing the stylistic choices of political cartoonists
In this lesson, students learn terminology that describes comics and political (or editorial) cartoons and discuss how the cartoonists' choices influence the messages that they communicate. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Argument, persuasion, or propaganda? Analyzing World War II posters
In this lesson that can be used in both English and social studies classes, students analyze World War II posters to explore how argument, persuasion, and propaganda differ. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Broken worlds
This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, provides a variety of options for conducting comparative analysis between two plays. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 Theatre Arts Education and English Language Arts)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Copyright infringement or not? The debate over downloading music
In this lesson, students investigate the controversial topic of downloading music from the Internet as part of a persuasive debate unit. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Designing museum exhibits for “The Grapes of Wrath”: A multigenre project
In this lesson, students read The Grapes of Wrath and create multigenre projects that explore issues from the Depression era. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Exploring audience and purpose with a single issue
In this lesson, students explore the rhetorical concept of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925—the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Exploring the power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s words through diamante poetry
In this lesson, students analyze the power of words while reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Giving voice to history
In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore the period during World War II when U.S. government ordered more than 120,000 Japanese Americans to detainment camps. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 11 Social Studies, Theatre Arts Education, and English Language Arts)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Literary scrapbooks online: An electronic reader-response project
This lesson leads students to reflect on and respond to literature by creating an online scrapbook. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Magazine redux: An exercise in critical literacy
This lesson prompts students to act as critical readers as they consider how and why their approach and experiences differ when reading an online version versus a print version of a magazine. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Making connections to myth and folktale: The many ways to “Rainy Mountain”
In this assignment, students write a three-voice narrative based on N. Scott Momaday’s structure in The Way to Rainy Mountain. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Mark Twain and American humor
Students examine structure and characterization in the short story and consider the significance of humor through a study of Mark Twain's “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
Paying attention to technology: Exploring a fictional technology
This lesson asks students to complete a short survey to establish their beliefs about technology and then compare their opinions to the ideas in a novel that depicts technology (such as 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
That's not fair! Examining civil liberties with the U.S. Supreme Court
In this lesson, high school students work in collaborative groups to explore the issue of civil liberties by conducting Internet research on related court cases of their choosing. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
What did they say? Dialect in The Color Purple
This lesson, taught in conjunction with Alice Walker's The Color Purple, encourages appreciation of dialects by exploring their meaning and origins. Students experience a variety of dialects and participate in small-group settings. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE