TPACK Creating Assignment Template

Subject English

Grade Level 12
Content Knowledge

Learning Objective 12.2 The student will examine how values and points
The objective of the lesson is what students will be able to do
as they finish the activity. For this objective, use the Standards
of view are included or excluded and how media
of Learning (SOL) to say what you want to focus on. influences beliefs and behaviors.
You can find the SOLs at
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/ look on the right of the
screen for the subjects and go from there.
 Activity Describe what the learning activity will be. What This learning activity will help the students build the
will the students and the teacher be doing? (This includes
what they are doing with the technology).
skills to understand and evaluate media sources for
relationships between intent, factual content and
opinion. The class will begin with the teacher
explaining what media is and different types of media
that students should be familiar with. The teacher will
then go through a preselected example of a media
source with the students and help them examine the
source for intent, factual content and opinion
together as a class. The student should be able to
recognize that media messages express points of view
and contain their own values. The student should also
be able to understand the difference between
objectivity and subjectivity in media messages.
Therefore, the students are going to use google to
find an article from a source well-known and
reputable source that they are familiar with. Then the
students are going to link the article on
livejournal.com and examine the article for its points
of view and subjective points as well as its objective
points and post a blog post explaining them. The
student will include 2 objective points from the article
and 2 subjective points from the article and discuss
what makes those points either objective or
subjective and how the points influenced their
opinions on the subject of the article.
Pedagogy

Technology The technology that will be used in today’s lesson is

Technol

Name of the device and/or programs being used. (The

description of what the students will be doing with the
livejournal.com. This allows the students to post a
blog page online for free.
ogy

technology will be included in the pedagogy/activity section).

Directions for Use
Please provide step-by-step instructions for your students to
use the tool to complete their assignment. Depending on the
age of your student, this might begin with 1. Click on Earth
to open the Internet. Etc..
1. First open a web browser: such as internet
explorer or google chrome
2. Type livejournal.com into the url at the top of
the web browser and hit enter on your
keyboard.
3. Look at the top right of the webpage and click
on the button that says “Log in”. Enter the
username: class12 and the password:
English12rocks and click log in.
4. Now look at the top right of the page and click
on Post New Entry.
5. Now open another tab in your web browser
by clicking the + symbol at the top of your
web browser and type google.com in the url
and hit enter.
6. Click on the search bar in google and type in
“news” and hit enter.
7. Under the search bar on the next page click
news.
8. Select a news story from the page and read
the article. While you are reading look for
subjective and objective points that the article
makes and write those points down so that
you can find them after you are finished
reading. You need at least 2 objective points
and at least 2 subjective points from the
article.
9. Once you are finished reading your article
highlight the url and right click on the
highlighted text. Click on copy and then open
your livejournal.com tab.
10. In your livejournal tab click on the + symbol
next to where it says “type your entry here”
11. Click on the 6th icon from the list that comes
up which reads “Add embed media or link”
12. Right click where it says “add a link to embed
media from another site” and click paste, then
hit enter.
13. Now hit enter and type one paragraph
summarizing the article.
14. Then type one paragraph giving your 2
objective points you found in the article and
why you think they are objective points.
15. Now type one paragraph giving your 2
subjective points and why you think they are
subjective points.
16. When you are done title your blog post
“Evaluating (your article’s title)”
 17. At the bottom of the webpage click on the
button that says “Tune in and Publish” then
click on the button that says “Publish”
Link to the example product http://class12.livejournal.com/449.html