9-12 Language Arts and Humanities Category Definition

Eligible entrants: Ninth through twelfth-grade students enrolled in San Diego County schools. Videos must be completed before students have graduated from high school. 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. The standard does not necessarily have to be selected from the grade level that you teach. Eventually, iVIE videos will be searchable by grade and standards, serving as a video library to aid in instruction.

Examples of 9-12 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
9-12 Language Arts and Humanities Video


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"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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Nevermore 2006 iVIE Grand Recognition Award Recipient
Orange Glen High School - Escondido Union High School District - Teacher: Rob Coppo

Purpose: To Entertain
Audience: General
Educational Objective: To present the Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "The Raven," in a modern context that would engage today's students.

California State Content Standards for grades eleven and twelve:

Language Arts Content Standards

Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

2.1 Write fictional, autobiographical, or biographical narratives:

a. Narrate a sequence of events and communicate their significance 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 temporal, spatial, and dramatic mood changes.
e. Make effective use of descriptions of appearance, images, shifting perspectives, and sensory details.

Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

2.4 Deliver multimedia presentations:

a. Combine text, images, and sound by incorporating information from a wide range of media, including films, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMs, online information, television, videos, and electronic media- generated images.
b. Select an appropriate medium for each element of the presentation.
c. Use the selected media skillfully, editing appropriately and monitoring for quality.
d. Test the audience's response and revise the presentation accordingly.

Visual and Performing Arts content Standards

2.0 Creative Expression

2.1 Solve a visual arts problem that involves the effective use of the elements of art and the principles of design.
2.2 Prepare a portfolio of original two and three-dimensional works of art that reflects refined craftsmanship and technical skills.
2.3 Develop and refine skill in the manipulation of digital imagery (either still or video).

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