Common Core State Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
Objective
Students will analyze a 360° video or image and explain a connection between it and a text by citing evidence.
360° Learning Experience
Teachers provide a 360° image or video for students to view. Next, teachers present students with a text that connects with the image/video. Individually or with a partner, students view the image/video before reading the text. Then, students read the text. Afterwards, the students explain how the image/video relate to the text by making logical inferences based on them. For example, students can identify one element from the text and explain how that element is or could be reflected in the video/image. To complete the activity, students write a short journal entry to explain the relationships they identified between the text and the video/image, and they can share their writing by summarizing it to classmates in small groups or by allowing their classmates to read their writing followed by having a conversation about it.
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Example Inference
Prompt: After reading the poem The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams, make an inference regarding if Williams would agree that the fire truck captured in this 360° video reflects the fire truck he described in his poem. In your response, you are required to cite one or more lines from the poem to support your explanation.
No, Williams would not agree that the fire truck in the 360° video represents the one he described in his poem, The Great Figure. To begin, the fire truck in the video is parked and silent. There is no movement, and it is not responding to a crisis. Plus, the weather in the video shows a nice, pleasant day. In contrast, Williams describes the fire truck in his poem as “moving, tense, unheeded, to gong clangs, siren howls, and wheels rumbling, through the dark city” (lines 7-13). That language describes a fire truck moving through a city after the sun has set. Moreover, the tenseness and howling of sirens is not taking place in the video, as that fire truck is seemingly parked in front of a building, without on lookers. For these reasons, Williams would likely agree that the fire truck in the video does not reflect the one he described in The Great Figure.
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