Unit Plan

Trying to come up with a topic for a unit plan was a little difficult for me. Being able to pick anything at all always leaves a lot of room for me to want to change my mind. That being said, this is a work in progress, but this is my potential unit plan idea: Students will be learning about film and how it is able to confront issues and convey messages to an audience. The unit could explore using film to pose important questions or commentary on current social issues. During the unit, I'd like for the final 'project' to be a short film that the students can create on their own. This way they'd be able to explore writing a script, using different technolgy to create a film, and doing their own research on good examples of films that they believe carry a strong message. I guess an important question would be how I could easily relate this directly to my students: why should they think this is useful information? That might be a little hard to communicate directly so I'd need to work on that. Also, what exactly would the grading rubrik look like for their final film? How can I judge their creative process? Like I said, a work in progress, but I think that it has potential!