Exploring Phobias

Overview

Students investigate phobias, use art to represent their topic of research, and come up with treatment plans to help overcome their fear or prejudice.

Curriculum References

English Language Arts, 4/5

• Big Ideas: Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how language works. Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
• Curricular Competencies: Access information and ideas from a variety of sources and from prior knowledge to build understanding; exchange ideas and perspectives; develop and apply expanding word knowledge.
• Content: Metacognitive strategies; writing processes; reading strategies: using phonics and word structure, visualizing, and questioning.

English Language Arts, 6/7

• Big Ideas: Developing our understanding of how language works allows us to use it purposefully. Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
• Curricular Competencies: Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding; use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences; exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking.
• Content: Metacognitive strategies; writing processes; reading strategies: using phonics and word structure, visualizing, and questioning.

English Language Arts, 8/9

• Big Ideas: People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives. Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
• Curricular Competencies: Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity; synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding; transform ideas and information to create original texts; use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences; exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking.
• Content: Elements of visual/graphic texts; Metacognitive strategies; writing processes; reading strategies: using phonics and word structure, visualizing, and questioning; language usage and context.

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