Using Film in the Classroom/How to Read a Film

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.04.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Overarching Understandings and Questions to Keep in Mind for the Development of the Unit
  4. Demographics
  5. Content: Hester Street
  6. Teaching Strategies
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Bibliography/Teacher and Student Resources
  9. Common Core State Standards for Pennsylvania
  10. Notes

Immigration and the Narrative Voice: Analysis of Image and Sound in Film and Its Connection to the Immigrants' Stories

Kathleen Radebaugh

Published September 2015

Tools for this Unit:

Common Core State Standards for Pennsylvania

Key Ideas and Details: Text Analysis

Standard - CC.1.2.6.C

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text.

This standard will drive instruction. Students will read and write with this standard. There are many individuals for students to analyze with evidence from the different mediums. The idea is immigration reform and how students can break down the process.

Craft and Structure: Vocabulary

Standard -CC.1.2.6.F

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade level reading and content, including interpretation of figurative language in context.

Informative texts are filled with domain specific language that the students need to define with context clues. Being able to identify the context clues within the passage is a very different skill to master and students need to use formal vocabulary in their writing and discussions with peers and adults.

Informative/Explanatory Content

1.4.6.C: Develop and analyze the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

This standard is for the student’s writing portfolio. Students will write a four to five paragraph essay about one specific topic regarding the immigration process and/or immigration reform. The goal is for students to interview managers of local field offices or people who went through the immigration process to help develop their informative paper.

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