My name is Anna Gray, an elementary education major at Appalachian State University. This website was created to teach a lesson on Media Analysis and Evaluation. With the holidays quickly approaching, we will be watching a clip from Frosty the Snowman, and analyzing it to meet the following Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Both of these standards along can be taught by watching any movie and asking students questions about characters and events.This lesson is aimed at the second grade level and will expand the students knowledge on media, as well as fostering their creativity and giving them a better understanding of how media is created.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Both of these standards along can be taught by watching any movie and asking students questions about characters and events.This lesson is aimed at the second grade level and will expand the students knowledge on media, as well as fostering their creativity and giving them a better understanding of how media is created.
Why Analyze Media?
1- Media Literacy: "Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms – from print to video to the internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy.”
2- Outside of school, students use and see media everywhere, and on average use it for 7 and a half hour each day (Rideout, 11). Kids love movies, TV, and music.Especially around the holidays, music and movies can be very special to some families. Traditions and family gatherings are often geared around media, such as watching Frosty the Snowman, which I do every year. Why wouldn’t schools implement media literacy, if it is something students can connect to, and are so interested? Teachers often have a problem relating media to anything teachable in the classroom, but if they really tried, they would be able to relate almost any movie or even song to something they are teaching, It is things like media literacy that engage students, and make lessons memorable.
3- 21st century skills are skills that are considered to be needed and useful to succeed in the 21st century. They blend specific skills, content knowledge, expertise, and literacies. The skills are broken into categories that include core subjects, learning and innovation skills, information, media and technology skills, and life and career skills. Media literacy facilitates development of these skills by broadening the ways students learn, and helping them think outside the box. Using media surely helps students become multi-taskers. “According to our media use diaries, more than a quarter (29%) of the time young people use media, they use two or more media concurrently—that is, watching TV while flipping through a magazine, or IMing, listening to music, and surfing the Web all at the same time” (Rideout, 33). Young learners also become creative by engaging in media and having an understanding for how media is created.
4- The common core standards can be applied to almost any form of media out there. Although, it may not apply directly, there are ways to take a subject, and find some form of media about it. Movies are a great way to have students analyze media when trying to teaching language arts common core standards. Movies are like stories, there for many of the characteristics are the same in both.
5- (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1) This standard was explored in our production activity. The students will create snowmen and discuss who the snowman is, why we made him, where he is, etc.... We will get the students ready to answer these types of questions in our deconstruction activity where we will analyze different characters and their main purpose.
(CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.6) This standard is targeted in both activities activities as well. There are questions regarding the narrator, and also a chance later to act as a narrator, which is great for learning the narrators purpose.
2- Outside of school, students use and see media everywhere, and on average use it for 7 and a half hour each day (Rideout, 11). Kids love movies, TV, and music.Especially around the holidays, music and movies can be very special to some families. Traditions and family gatherings are often geared around media, such as watching Frosty the Snowman, which I do every year. Why wouldn’t schools implement media literacy, if it is something students can connect to, and are so interested? Teachers often have a problem relating media to anything teachable in the classroom, but if they really tried, they would be able to relate almost any movie or even song to something they are teaching, It is things like media literacy that engage students, and make lessons memorable.
3- 21st century skills are skills that are considered to be needed and useful to succeed in the 21st century. They blend specific skills, content knowledge, expertise, and literacies. The skills are broken into categories that include core subjects, learning and innovation skills, information, media and technology skills, and life and career skills. Media literacy facilitates development of these skills by broadening the ways students learn, and helping them think outside the box. Using media surely helps students become multi-taskers. “According to our media use diaries, more than a quarter (29%) of the time young people use media, they use two or more media concurrently—that is, watching TV while flipping through a magazine, or IMing, listening to music, and surfing the Web all at the same time” (Rideout, 33). Young learners also become creative by engaging in media and having an understanding for how media is created.
4- The common core standards can be applied to almost any form of media out there. Although, it may not apply directly, there are ways to take a subject, and find some form of media about it. Movies are a great way to have students analyze media when trying to teaching language arts common core standards. Movies are like stories, there for many of the characteristics are the same in both.
5- (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1) This standard was explored in our production activity. The students will create snowmen and discuss who the snowman is, why we made him, where he is, etc.... We will get the students ready to answer these types of questions in our deconstruction activity where we will analyze different characters and their main purpose.
(CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.6) This standard is targeted in both activities activities as well. There are questions regarding the narrator, and also a chance later to act as a narrator, which is great for learning the narrators purpose.