Images

<p><i>Images</i>, a book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 6-8, asks students three main questions: “What is your image?” “What image do you want to project?” and “Can you change or manipulate your image?” <br><br>The books in Prufrock's new Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. <br><br>By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 6-8, students will discover the images around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. In addition to personal images, photographic images are studied in detail, both historically and scientifically. Also, propaganda is examined through visual and written images. Students will go back in time and explore images that were popular during different time periods. This investigation will require students to research the advancements in technology, as well as how these advancements impacted popular images in history.<br><br>, along with the other books in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 6-8 (<i>Ages</i>, <i>Conflicts</i>, <i>Connections</i>, and <i>Powers</i>), makes teaching advanced learners easier!<br><br>Grades 6-8 <br><br>This curriculum unit makes use of the following great children's literature books:</p><ul> <li> <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> by Lewis Carroll, unabridged;</li> <li> <i>Photos That Changed the World</i> by Peter Stepan; and</li> <li> <i>Carver: A Life in Poems</i> by Marilyn Nelson.</li> </ul> Planning Materials Unit Planner and Overview Enduring Understandings and Generalizations Guiding Questions Activities1. Pre-Assessment 2. What’s Your Image? 3. Image Management 4. Teacher Image 5. Alice’s Images 6. Captured Images 7. Believe It or Not 8. What’s An Image Worth? 9. Images That Changed the World 10. Propaganda 11. Power of the Press 12. Perfect Images 13. Drawing With Light 14. Shadow Images 15. Geometric Images 16. Scaled Images 17. More Than the Peanut Man 18. Post-Assessment Attachments1. Writing Evaluation Rubric 2. All About Debate 3. Dress for Respect 4. Blank Evaluation Rubric 5. Presentation Rubric 6. Assignments 7. Newspaper Documents 8. Sharp Images 9. Pinhole Viewer 10. Images Carried By Light 11. Generalization Rubric 12. Tic-Tac-Toe 13. Paper Pyramid