Overview: |
Validate students' out-of-school language use by asking them to share details on the use of words and phrases from movies, television shows, books, and other texts. In this activity, students compose dictionary entries for words and phrases from pop culture texts, connecting the definitions to their personal use of the terms. Their work is published individually, or if desired, collectively in a class dictionary. |
| Content Standard(s): |
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| R4. Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| 7. 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 incorporating key literary elements, including characters, plot, setting, point of view, resolution of a conflict, dialogue, and sensory details.
b. Write informative or explanatory texts with an organized structure and a formal style, incorporating a focused point of view, a clear purpose, credible evidence, and technical word meanings.
c. Write an argument to convince the reader to take an action or adopt a position, stating a claim and supporting the claim with relevant, well-organized evidence from credible sources. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| 11. Utilize written, visual, digital, and interactive texts to generate and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| 13. Create and edit digital products that are appropriate in subject and purpose for a particular audience or occasion.
Examples: social media posts, blog posts, podcast episodes, infographics | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| 14. Enhance oral presentations by introducing ideas in digital formats with specific attention to subject, occasion, audience, and purpose.
Examples: speaking to defend or explain a digital poster, multimedia presentation, or video | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| 19. Demonstrate command of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics when writing.
a. Use commas, parentheses, or dashes to set off nonrestrictive or parenthetical elements.
b. Revise writing for correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.
c. Compose and revise writing by using various pronouns and their antecedents correctly.
Examples: personal, intensive, reflexive, demonstrative, relative, interrogative, indefinite
| English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| 24. Write about research findings independently over short and/or extended periods of time. | English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
| 28. Discover word meanings through active listening in various contexts.
Examples: classroom discussion, oral presentations, digital formats |
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