Composition/Advanced Writing: Media Literacy Unit

COURSE OVERVIEW & TIMING

Semester
Unit Unit Length

Media Literacy 5 weeks

Unit Unit
Literature and Environmental Justice
1 Length
Anchor Assessme

Texts nts
Unit
Goals
Speaking/Listening/Viewing
Stage 3: Learning Plan
Composition/Advanced Writing: Media Literacy Unit

January 2017

Monday Tuesday 1/3 Wednesday 1/4 Thursday 1/5 Friday 1/6

1/2
STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY BACK TO SCHOOL 1. Media 1. Break class into
NO Literacy groups. Each group is
SCHOOL 1. Pass back papers Pre-Quiz given a different photo
of Michael and told to
2. Have students share about norm breaking, 2. VISUAL study it.
go over rubrics LITERACY
2. Students write
3. Show norm breaking videos Show down everything they
examples of see WITHOUT
4. Brand alphabet quiz photos. Give making a judgment.
one photo to
5. Turn and talk: media literacy each group and Ask:
have members Based on your
6. Brainstorm lists of kinds of media on board number and observations, how
brainstorm a would you describe
7. Power Point on 5 Key media literacy topics list of this person?
everything they
8. Show Lets Talk about media literacy notice about How do you think
https://www.youtube.com/watch? the photo, then others might see him?
v=ogaw7xTWTE0 show it to the
class. Brainstorm a list of
the questions a
reporter might ask if
Exit Slip: they had only the
Define media literacy in your own words photo to go on.
and write one question that you have about it.
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Did no one ask,

Where did the photo
come from?

Which photo would

you pick if you were
the editor of a
newspaper?

3. Show the video If

they gunned me
down (9:05) from
Facing History

4. In groups, give
students the Which
Photo to Use?
handout. Students
create guidelines for
photo use and choose
a representative to
share them with the
class.
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Monday Tuesday 1/10 Wednesday 1/11 Thursday 1/12 Friday 1/13

1/9 Two weeks until quarter ends
1. Introduce definitions of
1. Define implicit/explicit/confirmation bias 1. Take Implicit Association Test 1. Students 1. Think/Pair/Share:
the term read all three What are the
citizen 2. Show video Would you take 2. Watch the short film Lunch Date Stop at versions of advantages/disadvanta
watchdog. this bet? (veritasium) 7:18. 7:23. Have students fill in FOG graphic Michael Brown ges of getting most of
Is everyone organizers. accounts to your news from social
who At 01:10 pause video and ask if themselves and media?
chooses to they can solve it. Play until end. On the other side write a 3 paragraph news fill out
share repot summarizing what happened in the Verification 2. Past out list of
something Play digital culture critic movie. Evaluation tweets from Ferguson.
on social abandons fake on the Internet Graphic In pairs, have students
media a column (3:24) How did the womans confirmation bias Organizer. choose 3 of them and
citizen influence how she acted? analyze them using
watchdog? Exit Ticket: 2. the Verification
Why? Evaluation Graphic
Three things I learned today/two Organizer.
2. Show the questions I have is/one thing I
video enjoyed or want to know more 3. Play the video
Combattin about is.. Telling fact from
g fiction on social
Confirmati media. Have
on Bias students write down
(9:27) from two strategies used to
Composition/Advanced Writing: Media Literacy Unit

Facing determine fact from

History. fiction.
As students
listen, have 3. Give one/get one.
them write Prompt: What are
down three some examples, either
strategies from your own
to combat memory or from the
confirmatio video, of news from
n bias in Ferguson that was
their spread and later turned
journals. out to be false?

3. Show the 4. Divide class into

video pairs, each partner
Citizen reads either
Watchdogs #Ferguson brought
and the national attention or
future of How social media
the news. users help and harm.
(5:37)

3. Choose
your own
adventure
essay
Composition/Advanced Writing: Media Literacy Unit

Monday Tuesday 1/17 Wednesday 1/18 Thursday 1/19 Friday 1/20

1/16
Propaganda Viral Marketing 1. Watch Use Flipgrid
NO Truth in
SCHOOL 1. Pass out media logs. Dues on 1. Media Log check Media Watch one of the
next Tuesday 1/24 Understanding following movies:
2. Native Advertising video by John Oliver Big Pharmas
2. Show baby incubator clip. propaganda American Sniper
Have students respond in journals. 3. Students browse the Mind over Media machine Zero Dark Thirty
gallery at (6:03) Homeland
3. What is propaganda? Turn and http://propaganda.mediaeducationlab.com True Lies
talk. /browse and respond to three of the ads, Carl Hart: Black Hawk Down
saying whether or not they agree with the Drug War
4. Propaganda slide show analysis and rating them, then fill out a Propaganda: A
reflection form. Tool to
Demonize
Groups (2:40)
Product
Placement

Assignment:
Create
screencast with
Screencast-O-
Matic

Monday Tuesday 1/24 Wednesday 1/25 Thursday 1/26 Friday 1/27

1/23
Gendered Advertising Quarter 2 Ends
Beauty
Industry Ask What does the ideal woman Drug Propaganda-Legal and Illegal
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look like? Height? Hair? Etc?

Dove Take notes. Same for man.
Beauty
Patch Show ads with whatever is being
commercial sold covered up. Students
determine what the ad is trying to
sell

Show how beauty standards have

changed over time using old
magazines.

Students look through magazines

finding what ads are positive and
negative for body image, then
make sample posters.

1. Show video clip of Barbie

Liberation Front

1. Go to
http://www.genderremixer.com/ht
ml5/. Use the site to remix
gendered ads.

Monday Tuesday 1/31 Wednesday 2/1 Thursday 2/2 Friday 2/3

1/30
NWEA NWEA PARENT- PARENT TEACHER
NWEA TEACHER CONFERENCES
CONFERENC 10AM-12PM
QUARTER ES 5:30 PM
3 BEGINS
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