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Implementing District Standards
This curriculum unit addresses the following Pennsylvania Core Standards – CC.8: PA Core for History and Social Studies:
Standard Area – CC.8.5: Reading Informational Text: Students read, understand, and respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence. The specific standard for which this unit is particularly suited because it focuses on film as visual text is CC.8.5.11-12.G: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Another standard that this unit addresses is CC.8.5.11-12.H: Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information. Students will be reading, analyzing and evaluating filmmakers' perspectives on immigration to the global city, as well as evaluating such scholars as Saskia Sassen, Gordon Gray and Eric Avila insights into the globalization of products, people and ideas.
The final standard that applies to this unit is CC.8.6.11-12.A: Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content. Students will write about continuity and change in globalization processes as well as comparative essays on the global cities of Los Angeles and London. Students will develop claims and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claims and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form that anticipates the audience's knowledge level, concerns, values and possible biases.
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