Representing Skills Lesson Plans

Below are listed lesson banks and lesson plans from a variety of Internet sources. The Web Sites listed here have been selected to complement and enrich your teaching of the ELA Middle Years Language Arts Curriculum in the Grade 7 Representing Strand.

Individual Lesson/Unit Plans

• Capturing A Moment In Time - This lesson allows the students to explore imagery poetry through the use of a digital camera. The students visualize an imagery poem then look at a painting that pays tribute to the poem. Then the students think of a moment in time important to them, take a picture that represents it, and write a poem about it.
• What's In a Video? - Students will develop a vocabulary about videos and analyze ways in which effects are used to create a variety of meanings. They will create a video combining a variety of effects.
• Persuading Others - A series of lessons where students explore television advertisements, looking at who they target, their verbal and visual features and stereotypes. Students use this understanding to produce their own TV advertisement using a video camera.
• Verbals on Visuals - A series of lessons based around the language and visual features of picture books. Students present a picture book using computer technology.
• Who Cares? We Do! - A series of lessons where students explore and investigate a community issue or concern. The students use a range of technologies and media to gather, analyze and present a possible solution based on researched evidence.
• Words and Images: Visual Responses to Literature - In this series of lessons students explore ways in which static images may be used to convey mood/themes from literature. After critically analyzing a series of static images, students combine visual and verbal features to create an original static image in response to their reading.
• Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research - Students read, write, speak, listen, and research as they interview a partner and write an article, write a personal memoir, take partner photographs, and use the Internet to find pictures and information illustrating their partners’ interests. Results are shared in the form of a poster and a classroom presentation.
• Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions - Students design, build, and test inventions to solve problems they have identified. All data is recorded using commonly accepted scientific principles, and students propose in writing an appropriate speech for sharing the results of their experimentation. Final speeches, including graphs, brochures, PowerPoint Slides, and demonstrations, are presented before combined classes.
• Inventing and Presenting Unit 2: Effective Speeches and Building the Invention - Students design, build, and test inventions to solve problems they have identified. All data is recorded using commonly accepted scientific principles, and students propose in writing an appropriate speech for sharing the results of their experimentation. Final speeches, including graphs, brochures, PowerPoint Slides, and demonstrations, are presented before combined classes.
• Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion - Students design, build, and test inventions to solve problems they have identified. All data is recorded using commonly accepted scientific principles, and students propose in writing an appropriate speech for sharing the results of their experimentation. Final speeches, including graphs, brochures, PowerPoint Slides, and demonstrations, are presented before combined classes.
• Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character - After reading a novel as a group, students prepare a television talk show that uses the characters from the story as the acting characters on the show. Students develop interview-style questions and answers for a character in the novel, and then act out the interview in class.
• The Reading Performance: Understanding Fluency Through Oral Interpretation - This lesson presents an adaptation of the oral recitation lesson: students talk in explicit terms about prosody and gain a new appreciation for written literature intended for oral performance. Technology activities are integrated to instill the value of technology in shaping students' life-long appreciation of literature.

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