2008Perserverance

=Sixth Grade Unit 1: Perseverance=

Projects:

 * Opener: [|Chris Brown Forever] Video
 * 1) Why are some people "stills" and other have motion?
 * 2) What are the moving lights for?
 * 3) What is the narrative?
 * 4) Why is the girl "falling" why does he tell her that he'll catch her if she does?
 * Rhianna Video
 * 1) What is the narrative?
 * 2) What is she telling the man in the video?
 * 3) What does this have to do with perseverance?
 * What motivates you?
 * 1) Pick out photos from flickr
 * 2) Motivator Posters on perseverance(use of visual/text symbolism)
 * Introduction to the PSA genre
 * 1) Show Ad Council PSAs
 * Photo Story movies on perseverance
 * 1) Use of narrative

Objectives:

 * 1) Vocabulary development around perseverance and related vocabulary
 * 2) Understand and apply shades of meaning, especially vis-a-vis visual, verbal, and written symbolism and metaphor

Links:
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