This activity is essentially a scavenger hunt.

Work individually or in pairs to find at least three instances where visual media, visual rhetoric, the visual, and/or visual literacy are mentioned (or, if you really get stuck, implied!) in the K-12 content standards.

You might start with the links below, but feel free to explore, link away, and/or search as you see fit:

K-8 Grade Level Content Expectations
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-28753_33232---,00.html

English Language Arts Content Expectations
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-38924_41644_42674---,00.html

dànielle nicole devoss | devossda@msu.edu