Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: Lesson Plan: How to Analyze the News [Pdf]
Lesson plan focusing on the importance of understanding how the news is a product with a specific scope, structure, slant and style at the forefront of its production.
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Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War
Was it possible to manipulate photographs during the Civil War? Teach your learners about critical viewing through this innovative lesson and engage them in discussion, analysis and research to explain their findings.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
In this lesson, learners will examine mass media critically and become aware of how much advertising is around them. They will realize the impact media has on social equality, what people buy, and on culture.
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Media Education Foundation: Deconstructing a Video Advertisement [Pdf]
Handout that leads students through an exploration of the visual and audio elements of a video advertisement as well as the effect these elements have on the intended audience and the community as a whole.