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Challenge | 1-5 Days

Pop culture that “made me feel seen”


Overview

Mass media like movies, books, TV shows, and songs have the power to inspire and entertain us. They can also show us new ways of thinking, help us explore our own identities, and showcase underrepresented perspectives.

SRL wants you to share a time when you “felt seen” by something in pop culture or in the media (a movie, book, TV show, song, podcast, comic book, etc.)

What did it do for you? How did you relate to it? Did it feel like it was an accurate depiction? Why was it so good?

Go HERE to complete the project.

Demonstrate technical support related to media production (e.g., broadcast, video, web, mobile).

  • CCTC AR-AV 3.1: Demonstrate how to repair and service transmitting and receiving systems.
  • CCTC AR-AV 3.2: Employ knowledge of wireless and wired transmission systems.
  • CCTC AR-AV 3.3: Demonstrate installation of cabling for audio/video productions.
  • CCTC AR-AV 3.4: Demonstrate the installation of a wireless audio/video system.
  • CCTC AR-AV 3.5: Demonstrate how to troubleshoot audio/video system operations.
  • CCTC AR-AV 4.1: Apply knowledge of the critical elements in designing a production to activities in the pre-production stage.
  • CCTC AR-AV 4.2: Identify the basic functions and resources for editing an audio/video production.
  • CCTC AR-AV 4.3: Apply computer-based development in video production and editing, with an emphasis on digital technology.

Evaluate technological advancements and tools that are essential to occupations within the Arts, A/V Technology & Communications Career Cluster.

  • CCTC AR 6.1: Research the impact of potential new technological advancements related to this cluster in the future.
  • CCTC AR 6.2: Analyze the technological systems that are apparent within the various pathways in this cluster.

Language - Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6: Acquire and use accurate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Creative Communicator

Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. (ISTE)

Reading - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10. 8 (Not applicable to literature)
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.9: Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

Demonstrate technical support skills for audio, video and film productions.

  • CCTC AR-JB 4.1: Examine equipment and its function.
  • CCTC AR-JB 4.2: Examine production activities.
  • CCTC AR-JB 4.3: Explain how to run a board shift.
  • CCTC AR-JB 4.4: Examine set design principles and practices.

Speaking and Listening - Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5: Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

Reading - Craft and Structure

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

Reading - Key Ideas and Details

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Topics

Journalism

Representation

Stereotypes and Misconceptions

Video Production

Arts

Identity

Projects

Levels

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Materials

Mic

Online Worksheet

Camera or Mobile Phone

Internet

Notebook

Estimated Time

1-5 Days