Multi-Media Project

Katharine Bagby

HCR17 Box 93

Cuba, NM 87013

kate@katebagby.com

(505) 289-2156

LESSON DETAILS

Language Arts 9^th Grade

Project Duration 2 weeks

10- 45 minute class periods

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

New Mexico Standards:

Content Standard 1 --Students will apply strategies and skills to comprehend information that is read, and heard.

Benchmark 1-A --Listen to, read, react to, and analyze information.

Performance Standard --1. Narrate experiences that offer: a) scenes and incidences located effectively in time and place. b) impressions of being in a setting and a sense of engagement in the events occurring. c) appreciation for the significance of the account d) a sense of the narrator’s personal voice

Outcomes:

The students will increase their ability to identify with a character in a role. The student will be able to write a short drama, by increasing their appreciation of setting, narration and dialogue. The student will increase their understanding of the human condition and issues facing adolescents in the civil war era through images, character study, music, writing, historical quotes and literature.

Activity:

TSW create a PowerPoint presentation / dramatization of a self-created role in the Stephen Crane novel, The Red Badge of Courage, or the adaptation of the novel in play form as published by Read Magazine.

Consider the following guiding questions for inspiration when creating your character’s dialogue for the Red Badge of Courage.

1) What would someone consider when deciding to leave home?

2) What makes a person determined to stick with a decision?

3) What are the dangers of running from your responsibilities?

4) How do symbols serve to unite people in times of war or trouble?

Choose a scene and image yourself as a new character interacting with another character from the Red Badge of Courage. Make the character your own by imagining a particular setting and story line, then describe it. Choose a piece of authentic civil war music as a backdrop, create dialogue and narrate your story.

Timeline:

Day 1 – Introduce content standards and benchmarks and vocabulary for the Read play Red Badge of Courage. Tell students they will need a floppy diskette.

Day 2 – Complete vocabulary, assign parts and read the play.

Day 3 – Complete reading and introduce activity, expectations, rubrics and timeline.

Day 4 – Visit computer lab to collect images and sounds, and save into power point and onto diskette.

Day 5&6 – Students will compose setting, narrative, and dialogue on PowerPoint templates in the classroom.

Day 7&8 – Students will visit computer lab to assemble presentations.

Day 9&10 – Students will present their PowerPoint presentations to the class. Student will self-assess with self-assessment tool. Teacher will also assess student work. Final grade will be an average of the two scores.

Assessment Rubric

TECHNOLOGY USE

Rationale:

Technology is important in this lesson because adding music and images to the presentation will add fullness to the literary aspects of this assignment. Music was an essential combat element of the Civil War. After all, Robert E. Lee once commented, "You cannot have an army without music." It seems teenager’s cannot have life without music either. The involvement of the different elements is possible through the use of PowerPoint. The assembly of the multimedia components stimulate the brain and and facilitate learning. Furthermore, the use of PowerPoint allows the student to isolate and storyboard their work and then to develop it.

Probably one of the more useful activities is the student recording their own voice. Bearing in mind, it is not a great presentation strategy to see the words and the voice on the same page, it is a great exercise for students to read, hear and self-correct their own writing. That is the intention. These exercises are not meant so much to instruct others as to entertain others. The project is a useful tool for the student in perception of vocal qualities and practice of same. This exercise as an end product is therefore important as a Language Arts tool, because they do indicate in written and oral versions that the student has or has not mastered the performance standard.

Excellent	Very Good	Good	Fair	Poor
Project includes complete and effective presentation of all components: 1) Setting description, 2)Narrative, 3)Dialogue, 4)Period image, 5)Period music, 6)Quotation	Project includes an effective presentation of most (5) components: 1) Setting description, 2)Narrative, 3)Dialogue, 4)Period image, 5)Period music, 6)Quotation	Project includes an effective presentation some (4-5) components: 1) Setting description, 2)Narrative, 3)Dialogue, 4)Period image, 5)Period music, 6)Quotation	Project includes effective presentation of few (3-4) components: 1) Setting description, 2)Narrative, 3)Dialogue, 4)Period image, 5)Period music, 6)Quotation	Project includes effective presentation of a couple of components: 1) Setting description, 2)Narrative, 3)Dialogue, 4)Period image, 5)Period music, 6)Quotation
Grammar, punctuation, and layout contain no errors.	Grammar, punctuation, and layout contain few errors.	Grammar, punctuation, and layout contain few errors.	Grammar, punctuation, and layout contain some errors.	Grammar, punctuation, and layout contain many errors.
PowerPoint presentation is 10 pages long.	PowerPoint presentation is 9 pages long.	PowerPoint presentation is 7-8 pages long.	PowerPoint presentation is 5-6 pages long.	PowerPoint presentation is 5 pages long.
Project is read and recorded by the creator. Reading is done accurately and with feeling.	Project is read and recorded by the creator. Reading is done accurately and with feeling.	Project is read and recorded by the creator. Reading is done with mistakes and with some feeling..	Project is read and recorded by the creator. Reading is done with mistakes and with some feeling..	Project is read and recorded by the creator. Reading is done.
Project must be presented and submitted to me on diskette by deadline.	Project must be presented and submitted to me on diskette by deadline.	Project must be presented and submitted to me on diskette by deadline.	Project must be presented and submitted to me on diskette by deadline.	Project must be presented and submitted to me on diskette by deadline.

Assessment Rubric

TECHNOLOGY USE

Rationale:

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