6-8 Language Arts and Humanities Category Definition

Eligible entrants: Sixth through eighth-grade students enrolled in San Diego County schools. . Topics for videos may be based on Language Arts, HIstory - Social Science or Social Issues. To determine that a video is student-created, use the following guidelines:

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Link all entries to a specific California State Content Standard.

Examples of 6-8 Language Arts and Humanities Videos
  • Identify an area of need according to recent test scores. Start with the California State Standard that addresses the area of need. Build your video on the standard, using the visual medium to simplify and teach the difficult concepts.
    • Language Arts
      • Nevermore, a video used to illustrate student understanding of a required reading selection, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."
    • History-Social Science
      • Pioneer Women, middle school students portray the life of 19th century women traveling to the West in covered wagons.
    • Social Issues
6-8 Language Arts and Humanities Video


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This video was created by ninth graders. However, this is an example of a video addressing a social issue, a video might also be created by sixth to eighth grade students

"Hate Crime " 2006 iVIE Award Nominee
Hercules School - San Diego County Office of Education - Teacher: Knikki Royster

Purpose: To document
Audience: General
Educational Objective: To create an autobiographical narrative using various media. Students to outline, write, storyboard, star-in, and edit a short video production about their lives.

California State Content Standards for grade nine and ten:

Language Arts Content Standards

2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

2.1 Write biographical or autobiographical narratives or short stories:
a. Relate a sequence of events and communicate the significance of the events to the audience.
b. Locate scenes and incidents in specific places.
c. Describe with concrete sensory details the sights, sounds, and smells of a scene and the specific actions, movements, gestures, and feelings of the characters; use interior monologue to depict the characters' feelings.
d. Pace the presentation of actions to accommodate changes in time and mood. e. Make effective use of descriptions of appearance, images, shifting perspectives, and sensory details.


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This video was created by fifth graders. However, this is a good example of a video demonstrating students' understanding of a language arts topic. The TV interview format would be easily adaptable to the middle school level.

Interview with Aiden Falconer 2006 iVIE K-5 Language Arts Nominee
Dingeman Elementary School - San Diego Unified School District - Teacher: Paige Wilkens

 

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