Content Standard: C. Language and Images
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how words and images communicate.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Identify and evaluate how language use varies according to personal situations and settings (e.g., school, home, and community).	Students will evaluate the use of vocabulary tone of voice grammar in various situations.			Students will write a letter to a friend and a letter to an authority figure. They will discuss the different tone (language) used. Students will interview parents on how they might use writing in their daily lives, both formally and informally.	Teacher observation	.
2. Identify the social context of conversations and its effect on how language is used.	Students will evaluate the use of vocabulary tone of voice grammar in various situations.			Students will discuss dialect used in literature (ex., Sign of the Beaver; Shiloh). Students will develop a list of words created in the last ten years (ex., technology, hard drive, mouse). Given a topic (such as homework), students will compare the tone of the conversation between student and parent, student and friend, and student and teacher.	Teacher observation	.
3. Identify the use of nonverbal cues in conversations.	Students will recognize body language facial expressions gestures			Students will act out "feeling" words and discuss gestures and nonverbal cues used. Students will participate in a class discussion of nonverbal cues noticed in their lives.	Teacher observation. Given a situation, students will list the nonverbal cues.	nonverbal gestures cues
4. Make observations about the use of language and graphic symbols encountered in various real-life situations.	Students will understand mean/use of pictures icons symbols signs, etc.			Given a school issue, students will prepare a presentation to express their position. Students will select an ad and evaluate it in terms of effectiveness based on language use and images. Students will discuss acronyms and their meanings.	Given a list of graphic symbols, students will be able to match the symbol with the appropriate meaning. Students will create ads using effective language and images.	slang formal language informal language effective persuasive truth  validity
5.  Investigate the languages of other cultures and compare/contrast them to English.	Students will investigate word origins Maine place names other words when appropriate and will compare English to words learned in their World Language class.			Students will create a t-chart comparing common greetings, numbers, time, etc. Students will identify similarities in words between languages. Students will compare different letter sounds in languages.	Performance in World Languages	.
6. Make observations about specific uses and idioms of language.	Students will discuss idioms and multiple meanings.			Read The King Who Rained or other idiom books. Sitton spelling activities.	Given a list of common idioms, students will explain in writing the meaning.	idioms