Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- A variety of techniques for analyzing media outlets including television, internet, magazines, newspapers, and journals.
- A variety of techniques for analyzing the meaning, sources, viewpoints, bias, and sampling involved in media.
- Media is biased.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Analyze and compare information from various media sources.
- Support analysis with evidence from various sources.
- Determine reliability of news and their sources.
- Identify bias and viewpoints including symbolism.
- Apply strategies for media analysis to a variety of media outlets.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- It is important to analyze media in all forms to determine the reliability, source, meaning, perspective, bias, and sampling when listening to media outlets.
Vocabulary
- media bias
- analyze
- criticism
- viewpoints
- perspective
- political carton
- symbolism
- flawed sampling
- editorial
