RE14 Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
- Mass media overview
What is mass media?
History of communications.
How much of our life/energy/time/resources do we spend on mass media.
- Television unit
Skills
Students will gain an understanding of the background of mass media and the tremendous role it plays in everyday life.
- Understand basic technical aspects of T.V.
- How it works.
- Understand the history of T.V.
- Understand the basic business structure of T.V.
- Explore career opportunities in T.V.
- Learn beneficial uses of T.V.
- Explore physical, social and psychological effects of T.V.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
- Newspaper Unit
Skills
- Understand basic technical aspects of the newspaper.
- Understand the history of the press in the U.S.
- Understand the basic business structure.
- Explore career opportunities.
- Understand how a newspaper is produced.
- Understand the organization and structure of newspaper and newspaper stories.
- Learn how to use newspapers as a tool
- Consider journalistic social issues ie.:
- Free society vs. controlled society
- Libel and slander
- Right to privacy vs. right to privacy
- Freedom of the press vs. national security
- Freedom of the press
Assessment
Resources
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
- Radio and Recordings Unit
Skills
- Understand the relationship between these two industries.
- Explore the history of each medium.
- Understand the basic business structure.
- Explore social issues relating to both (particularly censorship issues)
- Explore career opportunities in both industries.
- Understand basic technical and production aspects involved in each industry.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
- Film Unit
Skills
- Understand the basic technical aspects about how a film is produced.
- Understand the language of film and what is involved in the production of a film.
- Explore a historical overview of film making from silent movies to present.
- Understand the basic business structure of the movie industry.
- Explore careers in the industry.
Assessment
Resources
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
- Media Issues Unit:
Media and commercialism
Media comparisons
Media future?
Skills
Students compare different media in different areas:
- news
- advertising
- media as a mirror of society
- Students understand a variety of advertising
- techniques and how they are affected by them
- Students hypothesize about the future of mass media
Assessment
Resources
Optional
