Journalism in American history
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Description This lesson provides students an opportunity to discuss how racial bias impacts news coverage in mainstream media outlets through a short video about multidisciplinary artist Alexandra Bell creating counternarratives from NY Times content. Students will apply ideas from this video to their own news consumption …
Description After learning basic information about historic and current Black journalists, students will create a project looking more in depth into one historical figure. Optionally, teachers may have students present their projects so the whole class can learn more about each figure. Objectives Students will …
Description In this two-day lesson, students will be introduced to many issues surrounding social media, technology and photography, including copyright considerations and how to use photography effectively in different social media outlets. Then, students will experiment with using a specific social media outlet (of the teacher’s …
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Below is a list of existing lessons in the JEA curriculum that curriculum leaders have identified as appropriate for ELL learners, with notes from curriculum leaders about any minimal adaptations. Design Dissecting Designs Note: Frontload the vocabulary and keep visual cues for vocabulary accessible. Editing …