Common Core State Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2
Objective
Example 360° Learning Experience
Teachers select an expository or narrative text and have students read it. Next, teachers select a 360° image or video for students to explore that represents a central idea or theme from the text. Teachers can then have students explain how that image does or does not represent the text’s central idea or theme.
Recommended Strategy
Example of Text-Based, Open-Ended Writing Prompt
The text that can be paired with the recommended 360° video shown below is Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace. When students view the video, they might make connections between the text to the video based on themes including wealth, value, and class status. An example response to a prompt such as “How does the video represent a theme from The Necklace is:
Example Response
The video represent the theme of wealth as related to Maupassant’s short story, The Necklace. Set in Paris during the 1880s, the two protagonists are working class married couple in their 20s, and they are invited to a gala. Feeling pressured to be of a certain social class to attend, the protagonists borrow an expensive necklace from a close friend, so they can appear as being part of an upper class while at the gala. While the lose the necklace and the story chronicles the hardships they suffered as they repay the debt to their friend, the necklace itself is a symbol of wealth because in the protagonists’ minds, it elevates them from working to upper class, which is a central theme of the story.