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What do you see?. Digging Deeper: Applying Personal Perspective to Propaganda. The task is… not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. ~Erwin Schrodinger.
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Digging Deeper: Applying Personal Perspective to Propaganda The task is… not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. ~Erwin Schrodinger
“We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.” ~B.W. Powe, Towards a Canada of Light
Context • My classroom: • Group make-up varies 6th, 7th & 8thgrade students • Class sizes: range from 1 to 12 students • Consistency: Students scheduled whole year & quarterly • Program: Miscue analysis/Reading diagnostics, culturally diverse texts that span 5th-9th in text complexity (scaffold polysyllabic & domain specific texts, Vocabulary Immersion , Phonemic training/Alphabetic Principle, Comprehension strategies, task reflections & constructed long & short responses) • Frustrations: • Lack of depth in students’ personal connections in written work • Lack of personal perspectivesin relation to real world issues • Project Purpose: To encourage discussion, critical thinking and the creative application of taught reading and writing strategies in designing an End of Year personal commercial/Ad
Inquiry Question:How can I support deeperconnections and personal perspective in student writing?
What do you SEE? Real Beauty • What resonated with you as you watched this video? • What message did you receive from it and why?
Reflection • What was this experience like for you? • How did you connect with this video?
Reflection • What did you notice in the student work? • How do I support greater depth and personal connection in writing?