Thinking/Rationale for Video Clip Assignment
· This assignment was designed for an 11th grade English/Language Arts class.
· The purpose of the assignment is to help students understand the power of adjectives, and how that part of speech adds variety and interest to sentences. The assignment was also created to give students a better understanding of a list of vocabulary words. Students are also given opportunities to use the root word or other tenses of the vocabulary words, which should result in the development of more complex sentence structure.
· The video clip was chosen, because it has a catchy tune, and it further explains the power of adjectives in every day English language.
· Most class periods are not long enough to establish effective planning for this type of exercise. Also, students tend to become loud when organizing these types of activities. So, some realistic challenges to consider in planning for this assignment include in-class time to construct the skits and refraining from getting too loud in the classroom during the practices.
· GPS for English/Language Arts:
ELA11C1 – The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats. The student
a. Demonstrates an understanding of proper English usage and control of grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, diction, and syntax.
b. Correctly uses clauses, phrases, and mechanics of punctuation
c. Demonstrates an understanding of sentence construction
ELA11LSV1 – The student participates in student-to-teacher, student-to-student, and group verbal interactions
ELA11LSV2 – The student formulates reasoned judgments about written and oral communication in various media genres. The student delivers focused, coherent, and polished presentations that convey a clear and distinct perspective, demonstrated solid reasoning, and combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description
a. Recognizes strategies used by the media to inform, persuade, entertain
b. Analyzes visual or aural techniques used in a media message for a particular audience and evaluates their effectiveness.
c. Develops and applies criteria for assessing the effectiveness of the presentation, style, and content of films and other forms of electronic communication.
