Project 8 Essential Learning Targets
Project 8 is designed to meet the following Essential Learning Targets. Students will reach these targets by reading a novel, completing a graphic organizer that identifies elements within the novel, creating a storyboard and publishing a video on the author and novel they’ve chosen.
Project 8: The Book Trailer Assignment
For your latest independent reading novel, we will be creating video book trailers, so get ready for your debut! The main difference between a movie trailer and a book trailer is that a movie trailer already has visual images to work with--clips from the film. With a book trailer, the maker has to convert the written words into visual images. The trick is to convey a sense of what the book is about without giving anything away.
Learning Targets
- Design, conduct, and present research projects to answer a question, including a self-generated question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration
- Analyze the purpose, question at issue, information, points of view, inferences, assumptions, and concepts inherent in thinking
- Analyze and compare how texts and other media make connections and distinctions among individuals, ideas or events
Reading
- Analyze text based on explicit and implicit evidence
- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text
- Analyze authors' methods for developing characterization
- Delineate and evaluate the argument and claims
- Determine the significance of author's use of words and phrases, sentence structure, and point of view
Writing
- Write narratives using a variety of techniques
- Use a variety of narrative and poetic techniques for intended effect
- Write informative/expository texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information
- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
- Use appropriate technology for researching, writing, and publishing
- Gather relevant information from multiple sources, assess credibility and accuracy
Communication
- Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media
- Present claims and findings emphasizing points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence
- Integrate multimedia and visual displays
- Adapt speech to a variety on contexts and tasks
Language
- Use conventions of standard English
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases, including figurative and connotative meanings, analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone
- Demonstrates understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings
- Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases
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