ALEX Classroom Resources

ALEX Classroom Resources  
   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (6) 20 :
20. Choose language that maintains consistency in style and tone in a variety of formal and/or informal settings.
[ELA2021] (7) 16 :
16. Convey ideas in an appropriate digital format with specific attention to subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and tone.
[ELA2021] (8) 15 :
15. Deliver ideas in an appropriate digital format with specific attention to subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and tone.

Examples: speaking to defend or explain a digital poster, multimedia presentation, or video on an area of interest
Subject: English Language Arts (6 - 8)
Title: Oratory Tips and Tricks | Ford's Theatre
URL: https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/fords-theatre-oratory-tips-and-tricks/fords-theatre-oratory-tips-and-tricks/
Description:

Nervous about giving a speech or presenting to your class? Use these resources from Ford's Theatre to learn more about demonstrating the oratory skills necessary for successful public speaking.

This resource addresses pace, emphasis, diction, tone, and volume. 



   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] MED (8) 1 :
1) Generate various ideas, goals, and solutions for original media arts products, applying focused creative processes through divergent thinking and experimentation.

[ARTS] MED (8) 5 :
5) Apply concepts from across content areas and varied arts forms to create a single media arts production.

Example: Collect images to communicate the theme or idea of a song.

[ELA2021] (8) 8 :
8. Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writing in which the development, organization, style, and tone are relevant to task, purpose, and audience, using an appropriate command of language.

a. Write narratives that establish a clear purpose, use narrative techniques, and sequence events coherently.

Examples: narratives - memoir, short story, personal narrative; techniques - dialogue, pacing, description, reflection;
sequencing - chronological, reverse chronological, flashback

b. Write informative or explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas or processes effectively, by developing the topic with relevant information or data from credible sources and using appropriate transitions and precise vocabulary.

c. Write an argument to defend a position by introducing and supporting a claim, distinguishing the claim from opposing claims, presenting counterclaims and reasons, and citing accurate, relevant textual evidence from credible sources.
[ELA2021] (8) 15 :
15. Deliver ideas in an appropriate digital format with specific attention to subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and tone.

Examples: speaking to defend or explain a digital poster, multimedia presentation, or video on an area of interest
Subject: Arts Education (8), English Language Arts (8)
Title: Where They're From: A Media Arts Project
URL: https://artsintegration.com/2018/03/01/media-arts-ell/
Description:

In this lesson, an arts integration specialist collaborated with an English Language Learner teacher.  The students used a cloze activity to complete a poem about themselves.  They took photographs to accompany the poem.  They edited the photos using iMovie and recorded themselves reading their poem.  



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