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TPACK Template Mobile Applications Assignment
Content
Subject Focus on one
subject area
Grade Level This
may be the same or different
for each app.
Learning
Objective
The objective of the lesson is
what students will be able to
do as they finish the activity.
For this objective, use the
Standards of Learning (SOL)
to say what you want to focus
on. You can find the SOLs at
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/te
sting/ look on the right of the
screen for the subjects and
go from there.
Mobile Application for Creating
English
9th
Copy and paste the standard/s here from the website
1. The student will produce, analyze, and
evaluate auditory, visual, and written media
messages.
1. a) Analyze and interpret special
effects used in media messages
including television, film, and
Internet.
2. b) Determine the purpose of the
media message and its effect on the
audience.
3. c) Describe possible cause and
effect relationships between mass
media coverage
and public opinion trends.
4. d) Evaluate sources including
advertisements, editorial, and feature
stories for
relationships between intent and
factual content.
5. e) Monitor, analyze, and use
multiple streams of simultaneous
information.
Mobile Application for Collaborating
Copy and paste the standard/s here from the website
3. 9.3 The student will apply knowledge of
word origins, derivations, and figurative
language to extend vocabulary development
in authentic texts.
1. a) Use structural analysis of roots,
affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and
cognates to
understand complex words.
2. b) Use context, structure, and
connotations to determine meanings
of words and
phrases.
3. c) Discriminate between connotative
and denotative meanings and
interpret the
connotation.
4. d) Identify the meaning of common
idioms.
5. e) Identify literary and classical
allusions and figurative language in
text.
6. f) Extend general and specialized
vocabulary through speaking,
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reading, and
Writing.
7. g) Use knowledge of the evolution,
diversity, and effects of language to
Comprehend and elaborate the
meaning of texts

Activity Download the New York times The students will all work together in
Pedagogy

Describe what
the learning activity will be.
What will the students and
application in the app store. Then groups of threes to create a story on
the teacher be doing with the have the students search the app for an ipad using the app Knowji to
app?
one article they think is factual and create a fun interactive vocabulary
write a paragraph on why and find a story to play in front of the class.
story they believe is fake and write a This not only allows the students to
paragraph on why as well. work on their collaboration but it also
allows the teacher to see their ability
of understanding vocabulary and
figurative language, and their grasp
Technology The New York times on the English
Knowji Language
Vocab grade 9
y Technolog

The name of the Visual vocabulary flash story.

Mobile Application

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