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The Giver - Cover Art - NYS Learning Standards - Intermediate
The Giver - Cover Art
New York State Learning Standards
Intermediate Level
New York State ELA #1
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for
information and understanding.
As listeners and readers, students will
collect data, facts, and ideas, discover
relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and
use knowledge generated from oral, written, and
electronically produced texts. As speakers and
writers, they will use oral and written language to
acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
Key Idea: Listening and Reading
to acquire information and understanding involves
collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering
relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and
using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic
sources.
Performance Indicators
Students
- interpret and analyze information from textbooks
and nonfiction books for young adults, as well as
reference materials, audio and media presentations,
oral interviews, graphs, charts, diagrams, and
electronic data bases intended for a general audience
- analyze information from the interviews read as
well as from the book covers
- compare and synthesize information from different
sources
- compare book covers and use interview to
explain book covers
- distinguish between relevant and irrelevant
information and between fact and opinion
- determine which images on the covers are
relevant or most relevant
- relate new information to prior knowledge and
experience
- use information from book to interpret the
covers
Key Idea: Speaking & Writing
to acquire and transmit information requires asking
probing and clarifying questions, interpreting
information in one’s own words, applying information
from one context to another, and presenting the
information and interpretation clearly, concisely, and
comprehensibly.
Performance Indicators
Students
- produce oral and written reports on topics related
to all school subjects
- produce paragraph related to the book
- establish an authoritative stance on the subject
and provide references to establish the validity and
verifiability of the information presented
- choose best cover and support it with facts
from the book
- develop information with appropriate supporting
material, such as facts, details, illustrative examples
or anecdotes, and exclude extraneous material
- support choice of cover with details from book
or cover
- use standard English for formal presentation of
information, selecting appropriate grammatical
constructions and vocabulary, using a variety of
sentence structures, and observing the rules of
punctuation, capitalization, and spelling
- use opening and concluding sentences and
standard English
New York State ELA #2
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for
literary response and expression.
Students will
read and listen to oral, written and electronically
produced texts and performances, relate texts and
performances to their own lives, and develop an
understanding of the diverse social, historical, and
cultural dimensions the texts and performances
represent. As speakers and writers, students will use
oral and written language for self-expression and
artistic creation.
Key Idea: Listening and Reading
for literary response involves comprehending,
interpreting, and critiquing imaginative texts in
every medium, drawing on personal experiences and
knowledge to understand the text, and recognizing the
social, historical and cultural features of the text.
Performance Indicators
Students
- read and view texts and performances from a wide
range of authors, subjects, and genres
- students will read science fiction and a
webpage
- recognize different levels of meaning
- students will understand the snowflake is
not just a snowflake but represents the memories of
the world being given from the "Giver" to
Jonas.
Key Idea: Speaking & Writing
for literary response involves presenting
interpretations, analysis, and reactions to the
content and language of a text. Speaking and writing
for literary expression involves producing imaginative
texts that use language and text structures that are
inventive and often multilayered.
Performance Indicators
Students
- use standard English effectively
- present their analysis of the book as well as
the cover in standard English
New York State ELA #3
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for
critical analysis and evaluation.
As listeners and readers, students will
analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues
presented by others using a variety of established
criteria. As speakers and writers, they will present,
in oral and written language and from a variety of
perspectives, their opinions and judgments on
experiences, ideas, information and issues.
Key Idea: Listening and Reading
to analyze and evaluate experiences, ideas,
information, and issues requires using evaluative
criteria from a variety of perspectives and
recognizing the difference in evaluations based on
different sets of criteria.
Performance Indicators
Students
- analyze, interpret, and evaluate information,
ideas, organization, and language from academic and
nonacademic texts, such as textbooks, public documents,
book and movie reviews, and editorials
- students will read science fiction and a
webpage and evaluate book covers
- understand that within any group there are many
different points of view depending on the particular
interests and values of the individual, and recognize
those differences in perspective in texts and
presentations (e.g., in considering whether to let a
new industry come into a community, some community
members might be enthusiastic about the additional jobs
that will be created while others are concerned about
the air and noise pollution that could result)
- students will provide an opinion concerning the
book covers and all will be accepted provided they
are supported by the author
Key Idea: Speaking & Writing
for critical analysis and evaluation requires
presenting opinions and judgments on experiences,
ideas, information, and issues clearly, logically, and
persuasively with reference to specific criteria on
which the opinion or judgment is based.
Performance Indicators
Students
- use standard English, precise vocabulary, and
presentational strategies effectively to influence an
audience
- will attempt to persuade the reader that their
chosen cover is the best
New York State Learning Standard - The Arts #3
Students will respond critically to a variety of works
in the arts, connecting the individual work to other
works and to other aspects of human endeavor and
thought.
Visual Arts - Key Idea: Students will
reflect on, interpret, and evaluate works of art,
using the language of art criticism. Students will
analyze the visual characteristics of the natural and
built environment and explain the social, cultural,
psychological, and environmental dimensions of the
visual arts. Students will compare the ways in which a
variety of ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed
through the visual arts with the ways they are
expressed in other disciplines.
Performance Indicators
Students will
- discuss and write their analyses and
interpretations of their own works of art and the art
of others, using appropriate critical language
- will interpret the covers
- compare the ways ideas and concepts are
communicated through visual art with the various ways
that those ideas and concepts are manifested in other
art forms
- will compare the covers to the printed material
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