6.4.1 Essential Question

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Demonstrate your understanding of novel themes by applying them to everyday life.

1. Choose one of the following essential questions to write a blog response to, from the choices below:

Choice 1:

What is the significance of a text's themes to our everyday lives, personal knowledge, and experience?

Consider the following:

• When we watch movies, listen to songs, read short stories or poems, what messages do we carry away from these texts?
  
  
• How do these messages influence us in what we know and the experiences we set out to have?
  
  
• How are we shaped by text?

Choice 2:

How are my views about myself and the world around me influenced by text?

Consider the following:

• How do various texts share perspectives (personal, cultural, moral)?
  
  
• How will understanding personal, moral, ethical, or cultural perspectives of characters or people in various texts benefit you?

2. Post your response to one of the following essential questions on the 6.4 Essential Question online discussion board and respond to another student's post. Do you agree or disagree with anything they are saying in their blog entry? Indicate this in your response and bring up at least one idea and a piece of evidence to counter or relate to their main idea. 

3. View the assessment for this assignment by looking at the 'assessment' tab.

4. Contact your teacher if you have questions about this assignment.

Submit rough 6.4 Essential Question work for assessment. Once this is assessed by your marker, make the necessary changes to your work and post it to the 6.4 Essential Question discussion board.

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Respond to the essential question in paragraph format. Analyze key parts of the essential question and focus your response on one specific idea. Provide detailed support to strengthen your idea.

Consider the following:

• What texts do you interact with on a daily basis? How do they affect you?
  
  
• What themes, or ideas about life, have you learned through those texts? How are they significant to your life or personal knowledge?

View Simon's 6.4 Essential Question.

Answer the question in an original video production . You may choose to film a specific subject matter with narrative or talk on camera to answer the question. Mark your submission as "Extra Challenge."