William Annin 初中教学大纲 - 8年级交流艺术 (2008)

Communication Arts - Grade 8

William Annin Middle School, 2008

Communication Arts is designed to develop and enhance students’ skills in critical thinking, listening, speaking, reading, writing and viewing. The program focuses on materials common tan English curriculum, and the skills are meant to serve student needs across the curriculum as tools utilized in the entire educational experience.

SPEECH

Speech - Objectives:

• Use knowledge of the speech process
  • Identify audience
  • Identify speaker and audience responsibilities
  • Identify the five components necessary for communication
  • Identify and employ the basic techniques for effective speaking
  • Identify fact, opinion, generalization, stereotype, and propaganda in their own and others’ speeches
• Apply knowledge and techniques of the speech process
  • Write and deliver a persuasive speech
  • Incorporate Maslow’s hierarchy in the persuasive speech
  • Employ the motivated sequence as the organizational tool for persuasive speeches
  • Use self-management skills in allocating time for preparation and gathering materials for speech presentations
  • Demonstrate comprehension and critical analysis in selecting supporting materials for persuasive speeches
  • Locate, evaluate, and synthesize data for research from a variety of sources
  • Cite sources of information in internal citations and works cited pages
  • Recognize the nonverbal aspects of communication
  • Demonstrate listening skills by identifying main ideas and supporting details in their classmates’ speeches
  • Develop self-confidence in public-speaking ability through a sequence of speaking situations
  • Demonstrate comprehension of and appropriate listener response to speech
  • Give appropriate feedback
  • Recognize persuasive techniques and credibility in communication
• Respond appropriately to speech criteria
  • Speech content
  • Speech presentation
  • Speaker responsibilities
  • Audience responsibilities

Speech - Suggested activities:

• Charades
• Impromptu speeches
• Introduce a classmate
• Role playing
• Personal inventories
• Peer editing
• Persuasive activities (see materials)
• Persuasive speech
• Peer and self-evaluations
• Following directions activity
• Listening quizzes on classmates’ speeches Forensic readings

DRAMA

Drama - Objectives:

• Identify and define types of drama
• Identify and define dramatic devices
• Show an understanding of the craft of writing dialogue by writing original scenes
• Indicate conflict in drama
• Examine cause/effect relationships in drama
• State and support main idea in drama
• Recognize setting as an influence on characters and action
• Make judgments and support them with details
• Infer characters’ motives, feelings, and traits
• Summarize the components of plot
• Compare/contrast drama with other genres
• Recognize the use of foreshadowing
• Distinguish theme from plot
• Interpret and respond to information presented in stage directions
• Read expressively to convey meaning

Drama – Suggested activities:

• Read various plays in order to familiarize students with the dramatic form
• Perform scenes
• Write an original scene for “The Wish-giver,” giving stage directions, dialog, and narration
• Improvise action and dialog from character and situation
• Play charades
• Read a full-length play, The Miracle Worker
• Adapt a short story into script format (“The Man Who Had No Eyes”)
• Cooperative teamwork for The Miracle Worker
• Drama circles based on student choice
• Read a film script
• Read a radio script

JOURNALISM

Journalism - Objectives:

• Identify categories of articles
• Access and critically select information effectively through a variety of media
• Write using journalistic styles
• Perform writer, editor and audience roles
• Scan for information
• Recognize generalizations, opinion, and fact
• Derive word meanings from context
• Summarize using main ideas and supporting details
• Explain cause/effect relationships in news articles
• Recognize and responds to visual messages of irony, humor, and metaphor
• Analyze text for the purpose, ideas, and style of the writer
• Evaluate information in order to form opinions and draw conclusions
• Understand the role of advertising in news media

Journalism – Suggested activities:

• Read newspapers and identify terms and styles unique to journalism
• Examine a variety of newspapers and their diverse functions
• Write articles according to journalistic rules (inverted pyramid, summary lead)
• Select the 5 W’s and an H from a news lead
• Write in both feature and news styles
• Explore alternative media sources by creating a project in cooperative learning teams
• Compare/contrast feature and news writing
• Keep a log of articles read
• Compete in a scavenger hunt for information from the newspaper
• Analyze editorial cartoons for author’s purpose
• Analyze editorial text for fact and opinion
• Find new words in the newspaper (recent additions to the language)
• Summarize news stories into telegrams
• Find and expand the acronyms used in the newspaper
• Compare and contrast news media for writing style, functions and value
• Recognize the significance of nonverbal communication in broadcast news

POETRY

Poetry - Objectives:

• Know the devices and techniques unique to poetry
  • Differentiate between prose and poetry
  • Identify verse forms
  • Identify types of poetry
  • Recognize devices of sound
  • Identify as well as create figures of speech
• Apply critical thinking and analysis to poetry
  • Differentiate between connotative and denotative meanings of words in order to better understand meaning in poems
  • Better understand meaning in poems through their understanding of grammar
  • Identify the main idea
  • Identify the writer’s purpose
  • Explain the meaning of poems and use supporting details
  • Identify the speaker of poems
  • Read aloud with expression
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the craft of writing poetry by writing original poems

Poetry – Suggested activities:

• Cooperative teams to:
  • Determine the differences between poetry and other forms of written expression
  • Identify devices of sound used in specific poems
  • Identify figures of speech used in specific poems
  • Determine meaning in specific poems
• Poetry circles based on selected poems
• Answer specific question packets
• Keep reader logs on the various poems read
• Employ the discussion rubric
• Explain the meaning of a poem in an essay
• Compare and contrast two poems in an essay
• Write original poetry
• Poetry slams
• Individual readings based on student selection
• Create found poems
• Use physical activities to create figurative language in original poetry