This lesson is the start of a unit on photojournalism and teaches the foundations of photojournalism and composition rules to Journalism students to enable them to create their own effective visuals to add visual elements and interest to Journalism articles.

This lesson plan asks students to create a new, original film or podcast that is based on a specific element from a text (either a film, written text, or podcast). Students will analyze their chosen text, focusing specifically on character, theme, narrative style, use of sound, or setting analysis. This project will be taught asynchronously over the course of 5-6 class periods. 

In a shared Google Slide presentation, students will create one slide to present the highlights of their research papers or projects. They will include their research question, thesis statement, and show one credible source they used.

This lesson plan is for a short unit on making promotional films for elective classes to recruit students and to help students build their multimedia presentation skills as well as digital media literacy. The goal is to create a 2-3-minute example film that will promote elective classes and give reasons why students take specific programs and what their goals and intentions for these classes are. This is part of a unit that can be taught in as little as a week but would probably be best spaced out over at least 1-2 weeks. Example Project:Why Join JournalismThumbnail Credits: Photo by NEOSiAM 2021 from Pexels

A sample plan for implementing a Genius Hour project in CE English 1010 to help students determine what they want to do after high school and how to achieve that.Preview Image: Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash