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are listed searchable data bases 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
8 Viewing Strand.
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Lesson/Unit Plans
- Jurassic
Park: an Information Literacy Web Quest
- Students evaluate the quality of Web sites. Familiarity with Jurassic Park
is not essential.
- 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.
- Advertisements
and You! - A set of lesson plans in which students can explore static
images, analyzing the ways in which verbal and visual features are combined
in an advertisement for particular purposes and audiences.
- Intermediate
Language Kit - Technology Integration Ideas (PDF-290KB)
- Examples of how to integrate technology into the Ontario curriculum for
grade 7 or 8 English Language teachers. Includes ideas on desktop publishing,
multimedia software such as PowerPoint, Hyperstudio and iMovie, web design
and word processing software
- 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.
- Using
THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts - Students are taught how to "steal"
information by critically previewing textbooks and other nonfiction texts.
This strategy helps students better understand what they read by surveying
specific elements identified by the acronym THIEVES: title, headings, introduction,
every first sentence in a paragraph, visuals and vocabulary, end-of-chapter
questions, and summary.
- Writing
a Flashback and Flash-Forward Story Using Movies and Texts as Models
- Flashbacks and flash-forwards are common devices used in literature and
films. Students will not only see examples of these devices through movies
and stories, they will also create their own stories incorporating these literary
devices.
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