Module 6

Materials Production

Preparing for the task

Relating with the new curriculum

  Broad area of learning: Media Literacy

  Educational aim in the broad area: To develop students’ critical and ethical   

                                                           judgment with respect to media and to

                                                          give them opportunities to produce media

                                                         documents that respect individualand collective

                                                          rights.

Focus of development in the broad area: Use of media-related materials and

                                                                      communication codes

ESL competencies, their key features and their evaluation criteria:

ESL 1 To write text: 

            Key Features

             -The student prepares to write using strategies.

             -The student composes a text using strategies.

             -The student revises his-her own text using strategies.

            Evaluation criteria

              -Coherent message that is pertinent to the topic and the instruction given.

              -Words spelled correctly as found in: open-ended models and resources.

              -Final product that takes into account the intended audience.

            ESL 2 To reinvest understanding of oral and written texts:

            Key features

              -The students prepares to read a text using strategies.

              -The students understands a written text using strategies.

              -The student caries out a meaningful task using strategies.

            Evaluation criteria

              -Written demonstration of understanding of key elements and overall meaning.

              -Presentation of a personalized final product that follows the instructions for

                carrying the task.

Evaluation tools: Self-evaluation grid and an observation grid.(see annexes)

Cultural awareness: Students will learn about some other ways of living, depending on

                                    their heroes.(Heroes are not treated the same way in USA in like

                                    other countries.)

Functional Language& language conventions: Theme-related vocabulary, connecting

                                                                                words, word order, punctuation,

                                                                                verb tenses.

ESL strategies: Plan, use resources, use what you know, take notes, scan for information

                           cooperate, go for the general meaning, take-risk.

Cross-curricular competencies : Intellectual--To use information

                                                      Personal and social—To cooperate with others

                                                      Communication-related-- to communicate appropriately.

                                                      Methodological—To adapt effective work method.

How am I going to explain the on going evaluation

& the evaluation of the final task: I will explain the grids to my students.(see annexes)