Author:
Beth Clothier, Angela Anderson, Dana John, John Sadzewicz
Subject:
Communication, Educational Technology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Level:
High School
Tags:
  • Context
  • Subtext
  • Text
  • Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)
  • Who Am I Online Unit
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    English
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    Education Standards

    What Am I Seeing?

    What Am I Seeing?

    Overview

    Students will engage in reading imagery through extended viewing of an image, and then engaging with critical dialog about what they saw. This lesson is part of a media unit curated at our Digital Citizenship website, "Who Am I Online?"

    Look Deeply to Draw Upon Prior Knowledge

     

    Lesson Objective/Student Target:

    The students will be able to...organize images that are related to a topic.

    ELA Standards

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5

    Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

    Overarching Question:

    How will I look deeply to draw upon my prior knowledge?

    Key Vocabulary:

    Text: A printed work regarded in terms of its content.

    What is actually there.

    Context:  Circumstances that form the setting for an idea or event.

    What you know from background knowledge.

    Subtext:  Underlying and distinct theme

    What is implied.

    VTS  (Visual Thinking Strategies): A framework for close looking and critical thinking.

    Materials:

    Content Objective:

    Organize images that are related to a topic (example:  I Am Malala).  

    Language Objective:

    Discuss and write what you know and don’t know about images.

    Pre Assessment/ Background knowledge:

    Count how many images with which you are familiar.  

    Write a question regarding the images.

    Activity:

    #1

    Sort images on scale.  

    1. Placing images in a location
      (here-----------there)
    2.  Placing images culturally
      (Religious---------secular)
    3.  Placing images from personal experience
      (Know----------don’t know)
    4.  *count how many you know/ don’t know

     #2

    Choose 1 image to look deeply

    Graphic Organizer

    Scaffolds:

    Alternative #2

    Visual Thinking Strategies

    Check For Understanding:

    Two takeaways from today are….

    Something new I learned was……

    Resources:

    This lesson is part of a larger unit on Digital Citizenship. To see the full lesson in context with the rest of the unit, visit our Google Site.

    Visual Thinking Strategies retrieved from www.vtshome.org on February 13, 2020.  Used with permission.

     

    Lesson Objective/Student Target:

    The students will be able to...organize images that are related to a topic.

    ELA Standards

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5

    Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

    Overarching Question:

    How will I look deeply to draw upon my prior knowledge?

    Key Vocabulary:

    Text: A printed work regarded in terms of its content.

    What is actually there.

    Context:  Circumstances that form the setting for an idea or event.

    What you know from background knowledge.

    Subtext:  Underlying and distinct theme

    What is implied.

    VTS  (Visual Thinking Strategies): A framework for close looking and critical thinking.