1. Spiral Analysis of Common Core ELA
#7 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard development across grades 6-12

2. Analysis
Looking at the progression of the spiral curriculum for grades 6-12, students are exposed to a series of practices that build on each grade level in order to provide them with an in-depth learning experience.
Starting in grade 6, students learn to compare and contrast (using a Venn diagram) reading and listening to text. In grade 7, the compare and contrast exercise is between special effects used by each medium with the original text. In grade 8, students look at the text in comparison to a film/play and the director’s choices.
9-10 grade students analyze how a specific subject is presented in two artistic mediums.
11-12 grade students evaluate different versions of a play (Shakespeare and American writer) and how they interpret the text.

3. Reading #7 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
Grade 6- focuses on the way in which student’s perception change after viewing or listening to the text.
Grade 7- focuses on how the student’s interpretation changes based on medium.
Grade 8- students evaluate how authors’/directors’ adaptations affect the meaning of the text
(from Common Core Standards- Resource Page, 2013)

4. Reading #7 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Grade 9-10 Look at how skilled readers evaluate different artistic mediums that deal with the same subject.
Grade Students evaluate multiple sources of mediums and look at how different versions deal with issue/problem.
(from Common Core Standards- Resource Page, 2013)

5. Seeing, hearing text
Grade 6- focuses on the way in which student’s perception change after viewing or listening to the text.
Activity to recognize plot :
-show a movie clip
-compare and contrast the text and clip
What do you see and how do you perceive the text
as you listen? Discuss the experience.

6. ...and Action!
Grade 7- focuses on how the student’s interpretation changes based on medium.
Activity:
read Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain”
watch a clip from “The Dead Poets’ Society”
read, discuss
listen/view
How does the lighting (sound) change/affect
the meaning of words?

7. Director’s choices
Grade 8- students evaluate how authors’/directors’ adaptations affect the meaning of the text
Activity: read Edgar Alan Poe’s “The Raven”
Watch “The Raven” Simpson’s (animation)
“The Raven” film
Analyze how the intentional and unintentional
decisions made by the director impact meaning of
poem

8. Close reading a scene Grade 9-10 Look at how skilled readers evaluate
different artistic mediums that deal with the same
subject.
Analyze a representation of the subject
key scene/ideas
listen to the soundtrack of the film
related art work
What are some choices made by the
filmmakers to set the scene?

9. How did they do it?
Grade Students evaluate multiple sources of mediums and look at how different versions deal with issue/problem (i.e. revenge).

10. Making choices
Grade Students evaluate multiple sources of mediums and look at how different versions deal with issue/problem (i.e. revenge).