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9th Grade Interdisciplinary Teacher Team 2010-2011

There are multiple events listed below:

Event #3

Remix Student Presentation Fair
Ninth Grade Team

Ms. C. Adrion, Ms. K. Arciniegas, Ms. L. Baker, Ms. G. Bileta, Mr. C. Del Re, Assistant Principal, Humanities, Mr. T. Halali, Ms. S. Hershenstraus, Mr. P. Puglia, Ms. M. Smith, Mr. M. Trowbridge, Mr. K. Wainer
 
8, 2011 during club hour, under the direction of Christian Del Re, Assistant Principal, the members of the Ninth Grade Humanities Grade Team conducted a multimedia presentation fair on the theme: Remix.  This was a culminating activity that grew out of a series of collaborative planning meetings.  The main objective of the fair was to have students view the theme of Remix from the lens of diverse academic subjects.  Ninth Grade Humanities teachers solicited students to present projects presented previously in their respective classes.  Students were  asked to attend and make connections between the project presented and the topics they were learning in their other classes. 
 
Students from Ms. Adrion’s Global History 2 class presented their exploration projects.  They had to research an explorer and put together a diary of their travels.  The student presenters also made connections between exploration in the 1400 and 1500s and exploration taking place today.  Students in Ms. Hershenstraus’ Global History 2 class had to create dialogues between historical figures they have studied this year.  Mr. Wainer’s Global History 2 class traced a current events news story throughout the course of the year.  The students had to present their findings to the class in a creative way at the end of the year. 
 
Students in Ms. Bileta’s Italian classes were asked to choose a poet and write a report, in Italian, about the poet and his/her poem.  Students then had to present the poem to the class.  Ms. Arciniegas’ Spanish students compared the festivals of their own culture to those practiced by Spanish and Latin American peoples.  They developed posters and presentations discussing the food, way of life, religions, etc.  
 
Mr. Halali’s photography students developed Public Service Announcements using Photoshop, the Internet, and their own photographs they had taken.  Students worked in pairs, used technology and the skills they had developed all year long to put together a professional looking PSA. 
 
From the review of the students’ critiques, it was evident that they were able to see the historical, artistic, literary and cultural connections on this central theme. 
 

 Common Core State Standards
Humanities Fair 2011

 The student presentations at the Ninth Grade Humanities Fair addressed the following Common Core State Standards:

Reading Standards for Informational Text

  1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
  2. Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an object summary of the text.
  3. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
  4. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
  5. Analyze fifteenth and sixteenth century documents of historical and literary significance for themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.

Writing Standards

  1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
  2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
  3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
  4. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
  5. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Speaking and Listening Standards

  1. Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one- on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
  2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.
  3. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning alternative and the organization development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
  4. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

Language Standards

1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
 

Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies

  1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
  2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
  3. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
  4. Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.

Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies

  1. Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
  2. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. 
  3. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self- generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation
  4. Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital source, using advanced searches effectively, integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
  5. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research

Event #2

The 9th Grade Interdisciplinary Team teacher chose Remix as their theme for the year.  On February 18th, the students held a Remix fair where they brought in an original song and a remix of that song and presented the comparison between the two pieces.  Students also expanded upon this concept by bridging connections to other subject areas such as science, social studies, art, language, math, and literature.
 
Attached below are some samples of student work from this event.
 

Event #3

9th Grade Team - Remix Project - Professional Development Day - 1/31/11

The pictures on this page are from our Professional Development Day on January 31, 2011.  The 9th Grade Humanities Team, under the direction of Christian Del Re, Assistant Principal, presented their themes of Remix and Research to the staff at the KCC Art Gallery.  The team asked the students in their classes to look at the art and to make connections betwen visual art, music, history, and language of the past to our world today.