1. For CSTE5337 next semester, you will be working with a team to design and create an interactive website which should provide the learning tools to fulfill all of the 8 modules of Instructional Design Theories you learned from this course. Identify a big concept which can be broken down to at least three sub-topics (dimensions of understanding). This concept needs to be understood and delivered through the interactive website design.
PLOT DEVELOPMENT
a. Exposition
b. Rising Action
c. Climax
d. Falling Action
e. Resolution
2. Pick which relationships constitute the important dimensions of understanding for that concept (Need References).
§110.19. English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 7
(6) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
(A) explain the influence of the setting on plot development;
(B) analyze the development of the plot through the internal and external responses of the characters, including their motivations and conflicts; and
(C) analyze different forms of point of view, including first-person, third-person omniscient, and third-person limited.
§110.20. English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 8
(6) Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
(A) analyze linear plot developments (e.g., conflict, rising action, falling action, resolution, subplots) to determine whether and how conflicts are resolved;
(B) analyze how the central characters' qualities influence the theme of a fictional work and resolution of the central conflict; and
(C) analyze different forms of point of view, including limited versus omniscient, subjective versus objective.
3. Identify which of those relationships have not already been acquired by the learners, and list them as new relationships to be taught.
-Relationship between elements of fiction: Plot, Theme, Setting, Characterization, Conflict, Mood, Style, Tone, Point of View
-How setting influences plot development
-Points of view - first-person, second-person, third-person; limited vs. omniscient, subjective vs. objective
-How an author’s word choice influences mood, tone, characterization
-Relationship of a literary work to its theme
4. Pick the best practice of using multimedia technology for each new relationship. (For example, Alice, Scratch, Video Clips…etc.)
-Video clips can be used to compare and contrast mood and tone, track plot development, determine point-of-view
-Alice and Scratch may be used to allow students to create their own representation of relationships that must be understood in the concept
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (2009). Texas Education Agency. Retrieved from http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter110/ch110b.html
Can you elaborate question 2 of how those standards applied to Module 6?
ReplyDeleteOn page 6b, Reigeluth (1999) explains that "when something is meaningfully understood, it is retained much longer, can be built upon to acquire further understanding, is usually very versatile in the situations and ways it can be used, and facilitates creativity."
DeleteIn teaching Plot development in middle school, students will meaningfully understand how a story is built in books, movies, television shows, etc. Once the concept it understood, they will recognize it in various situations and then apply it in their own creative writing.
Reigeluth, C. (1999). Module 6: Understanding. Retrieved from http://www.indiana.edu/~idtheory/methods/m6b.html
I think that this sounds like an interesting idea. I would have never considered using technology to teach plot development. I think Alice would be a good tool for this project since many of the objects in Alice have narrative elements.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was thinking. Students would have to essentially storyboard their Alice projects beforehand and make sure they have all of the elements of plot development: exposition, rising action, climax (turning point), falling action, resolution.
DeleteI always like for the student to create something (like creating a game in Alice). You have to understand something in order to create, since creating is a higher order thinking skill.
ReplyDeleteEven though "understanding" is toward the bottom of Bloom's Taxonomy, the meaningful understanding that Reigeluth (1999) talks about is necessary before a student can effectively apply and synthesize the knowledge at the higher level!
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