8th ELA - 1/28/2021

8th Grade ELA

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Poll

Which meal do you prefer?

Learning Goals

• I can understand different mediums and their advantages and disadvantages when presenting information.

• I can use evidence from Dr. King’s Montgomery Bus Boycott speech to support my understanding of the text and build background knowledge of the civil rights movement.

Multiple Choice

Mediums are forms of communication

• True

• False

Multiple Select

What are different types of media? (check all that apply)

• Magazines

• Newspapers

• Television

• Direct Mail (UPS, USPS, FedEx)

• Radio

Multiple Choice

What are the advantages of newspaper media?

• Large audience, Credible (believable), local news

• Takes a long time to read, expensive

Multiple Choice

What are the advantages of the television medium?

• Expensive, Limited time, Impersonal (commercials do not appeal to all watchers)

• Appeals to multiple senses (see, hear), attention grabbing, mass reach (lots of people see it)

Multiple Choice

What are the advantages of radio?

• Mass audience, lower cost (than TV), local (usually about the area you live in)

• Short amount of time so limited content, background noise so people don't really listen to it attentively.

Multiple Choice

What are advantages of magazines?

• Expensive to produce, low number of readers, labor intensive (takes a lot of work to create a magazine)

• High quality, long life (people keep magazines), appeals to senses (see, touch)

Multiple Choice

What are advantages of telephone mediums?

• Personal, effective

• High Cost (paying people to make phone calls), time consuming (one phone call at a time)

Multiple Select

If you wanted to tell people in your neighborhood about your school's fair, which mediums would be best (most cost effective and local)?

• National Television Commercial

• Billboard

• Newspaper and Radio

• National Magazine

Multiple Choice

What medium would be best for a presidential campaign advertisement/message (mass exposure)?

• Neighborhood newspaper

• National Television

• Local radio spot

• Billboard

Multiple Choice

Which medium would be best to advertise Post Malone's new album?

• Billboard

• National Radio

• Local Newspaper

• Phone calls

• None of the above

Multiple Select

What are the advantages of using a PowerPoint medium during your speech? (check all that apply)

• Listeners can see the words the speaker is using to reinforce the message

• The images on the PowerPoint catch the listeners attention

• More information can be communicated through the text written on the presentation

• None of these

Multiple Select

What is the benefit of analyzing the theme of "Taking a Stand" using text versus photographs? (Check all that apply.)

• There are more details to provided in text versus photographs.

• More has to be inferred in photographs versus text.

• Text is not more beneficial in assessing "Taking a Stand".

Montgomery Bus Boycott Speech

You will now work with your Breakout Group to read the Speech and answer the text-dependent questions.