Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Items to Collect:
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Review:
Activate students' understanding:
Class Discussion: What makes you interested in seeing a movie or reading a book?
Connect new learning to previous:
Class Discussion: These trailers and summaries bring an example of the overall theme
and plot of the movie/book. For example: The Guardians of the Galaxy trailer shows
funny examples of Starlord and witty dialogue between the characters. What did this
create for the movie?
Purpose/Relevance:
Completing a visual media project to capture the essence of the poem, The
Highwayman.
Challenge initial understanding:
So, if you were to create a trailer for The Highwayman what are the types of moods
and scenes that the trailer would show?
Concept/Skill Development & Guided Practice:
Focus Lesson/Teacher Modeling/Think Aloud -- I DO IT
1. Teacher will present the iMovie project to the students.
1. Teacher will explain that this iMovie needs to not only encapsulate one of the
moods the poem portrays but also needs to include the major scenes from the
poem.