Standards taught from a global Perspective
Indiana Department of Education’s College and Career-Ready Standards for Grade 8 Language Arts
8.RN.2.3
Analyze how a text makes connections and distinctions among individuals, events, and ideas.
Integration of Global Education
Specific Lesson Plan Modifications for Global Competencies
Informal Outcome Assessment
8.ML.1
Critically analyze information found in electronic, print, and mass media used to inform, persuade, entertain, and transmit culture.
Integration of Global Education
Specific Lesson Plan Modifications for Global Competencies
Informal Outcome Assessment
8.RN.2.3
Analyze how a text makes connections and distinctions among individuals, events, and ideas.
Integration of Global Education
- Students will understand the interconnectedness of world problems and their solutions (Sustainable Development Goals).
- Students will recognize perspectives in texts and will understand how perspective influences the writing.
Specific Lesson Plan Modifications for Global Competencies
- Students will analyze how an author shows the connectedness between global issues, events, and individuals working to solve world problems.
- Students will compare and contrast the ideas in texts with similar topics centered around global issues.
- Students will read news reports as well as narrative nonfiction pieces centered around global issues and will recognize the perspectives conveyed in the text.
Informal Outcome Assessment
- Students will be able to conduct an analysis of a text (connections made and perspectives conveyed) about a global issue through a written response using the AXES paragraph format.
- Students will be able to conduct discussions on a variety of topics, making their own connections between texts and ideas as they synthesize the central ideas of multiple texts.
8.ML.1
Critically analyze information found in electronic, print, and mass media used to inform, persuade, entertain, and transmit culture.
Integration of Global Education
- Students will understand the impact of a single perspective.
- Students will understand how media can create and foster stereotypes
- Students will recognize their own stereotypes generated by media
- Students will understand how media outlets target individual groups of people based on their background, culture, etc.
Specific Lesson Plan Modifications for Global Competencies
- Students will view a variety of media sources from around the world on a single topic (relating to the SDGs) and will analyze how the central idea is conveyed by examining the perspective of the author/creator, the target audience, and the purpose of the source.
- Students will conduct research in small groups, discovering their own examples of media targeting individuals groups of people around the world and will consider how the message might have been different for a diverse group of people.
- Students discuss what they can do to combat biased media.
Informal Outcome Assessment
- Students will be able to conduct a Socratic seminar relating to the validity, stereotyping, and cultural bias found/not found in media sources.
- Students will be able to investigate how an advertisement may influence its audience and reveal a culture’s values.
- Students will write a compare/contrast research paper between two new international news sources and their propaganda techniques.
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