EC Listening and Speaking Assignment (22 points)
Due: One online copy by 8am and one hard copy in your period’s In Box by 3:05 pm on 5/5/14.
Directions: Copy and paste the following questions onto a writing program that is compatible with turnitin.com. Type your answers in complete sentences below the questions. Submit your completed assignment on turnitin.com by 8 am 5/5/14. Finally print out a copy of the document and submit it by 3:05 pm to your period’s In Box on 5/5/14.
Review your writing assignments for this semester and last semester on the ISIS Family Module then answer the questions below.
1. What is an example of why you think you are/n’t a strong listener?
2. What is an example of why you think you are/n’t a strong speaker?
3a. What is an example of a situation when you plan what you are going to say?
3b. Why do you plan what you are going to say in that situation?
4a. What is an example of a situation when you DON’T plan what you are going to say?
4b. Why don’t you plan what you are going to say in that situation?
Pick a movie you have not seen before from the list below. Find a person, your age or older to watch the movie with you. Discuss the movie you chose by answering the following questions. Write your answers below the questions, even if they are different, in complete sentences.
The Princess BrideZathuraThe Importance of Being Earnest
Captain Blood Wall-EStar Wars Episode IV
*. What is the title of the movie you watched?
5a. What do you think was the main theme of the movie?
5b. Why were your answers the same or different?
5c. What is one way the author and director conveyed the main theme? List and explain a plot point, a set design, a lighting beat, a musical emphasis, or any other form of movie magic.
5d. Why do you think the main theme important for you to learn? I expect two different answers here.
6a. What other piece of fiction has the same main theme?
6b. What audience was the second piece of fiction intended for?
6c-d. Which of the two pieces fiction would you recommend your best friend to watch? What are two examples of why you recommend it? I expect two different answers here.
7a-b.What weretwo minor themes you saw portrayed in the movie?
7a-b. How was each minor theme was portrayed?
8a. Who do you think was the author and director’s intended audience/s?
8b. Whatare at least twoclues (lighting, music, set design, dialogue, conflicts, characterization, etc.) lead you to your conclusions about who was the author and director’s intended audience?
8c. How were your conclusions about audience different/the same?
9a. What would you change to make the author and director’s connection to the audience even stronger? OR If you can’t think of anything, what was the most effective way the author and director reach out to the intended audience?
9b. How does changing the movie make the audience’s connection stronger? OR Why do you think it the moment you mentioned so effective?
10a. What is one thing you both wanted to discuss about the movie? Discuss your topics.
10b. What did you learn from your discussion that was unexpected?
After your discussion your partner must fill in the following information or copy it out and attach it to the back of your hard copy.
I, ______discussed the following questions with ______.
First and Last Name PrintedStudent’s Name
My relationship to your English student is ______.
Relationship to Student Briefly Explained.
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Partner’s SignatureToday’s Date