Magic in Real Life

Description:

Students will incorporate a "magical" element of their childhood resurfacing today and narrate an adventure that defines the role of family and culture in their futures.

Education Levels:

10

Subject:

Story Telling, Integrating Technology Into The Classroom, Writing (composition)

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

1.7 Use props, visual aids, graphs, and electronic media to enhance the appeal and accuracy of presentations.

Conforms To

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Writing

2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0. Using the writing strategies of grades eleven and twelve outlined in Writing Standard 1.0, students:

2.1 Write fictional, autobiographical, or biographical narratives:
a. Narrate a sequence of events and communicate their significance to the audience.
b. Locate scenes and incidents in specific places.
c. Describe with concrete sensory details the sights, sounds, and smells of a scene and the specific actions, movements, gestures, and feelings of the characters; use interior monologue to depict the characters' feelings.
d. Pace the presentation of actions to accommodate temporal, spatial, and dramatic mood changes.
e. Make effective use of descriptions of appearance, images, shifting perspectives, and sensory details.

Conforms To

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications

1.11 Assess how language and delivery affect the mood and tone of the oral communication and make an impact on the audience.

Conforms To

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

1.3 Choose logical patterns of organization (e.g., chronological, topical, cause and effect) to inform and to persuade, by soliciting agreement or action, or to unite audiences behind a common belief or cause.

Conforms To

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

1.4 Choose appropriate techniques for developing the introduction and conclusion (e.g., by using literary quotations, anecdotes, references to authoritative sources).

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