Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to:
- Explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
- Comprehend literature and other texts in oral, print, visual, and multimedia forms, and respond personally, critically, and creatively.
- Manage ideas and information
- determine inquiry or research requirements
- follow a plan of inquiry
- Create oral, print, visual, and multimedia texts, and enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
- Respect, support, and collaborate with others
Specific Outcomes:
- Each student will write a final post as an introduction to all the portfolio pieces that directly or indirectly let the audience know what it is s/he values most about life.
- Students will internalize focus questions.
- Students will infuse ICT outcomes.
- Students will create a portfolio in response to course focus questions.
- Students will improve their “TIC” (Technique, Insight, Communication)
- Student writing skills will emphasize an increase in personal voice and a decrease in X=X errors
Students will plan a portfolio that includes the following.
- One post about a novel’s exploration of a focus question
- One post about a short story’s exploration of a focus question
- One post about an excerpt from Shakespeare exploring a focus question
- One post prompted by viewing a film or TV episode with emphasis on voice and critical thinking about a focus question
- One post prompted by a music lyric with emphasis on voice and critical thinking about a focus question
- Now Focus on Me: a final post as an introduction to all the portfolio pieces that directly or indirectly let the audience know what it is s/he values most about life.
Assessment/Evaluation:
- 1 submission but all assignments must be included/linked
Timeline:
- May 30: final submission
Rubric: