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A Pale Blue Dot: That's Here. That's Home. That's Us.

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Carl Sagan - We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
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21st-century learners live in such a visual world that many are unused to letting their minds imagine the picture that words create. An excerpt from Carl Sagan's lecture, "The Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space," provides learners with the opportunity to compare the impact of written text with audio and visual versions.

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Concepts

media analysis, compare and contrast essays, informational texts, explanatory writing, oral reading, interpretation, langston hughes, active reading

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english language arts

Instructional Ideas

Use the text from President Whitmore's speech and the scene from the film Independence Day to model the process

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Pros

Links are provided to the text and to the movie version of speeches from popular films
The various tasks are carefully scaffolded and designed to prepare writers for the essay

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None

Common Core

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