Close Reading the Media
Literacy Lessons and Activities for Every Month of the School Year
New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Format: Book
Description: vi, 153 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
"Teach middle school students to become savvy consumers of the TV, print, and online media bombarding them every day. In this timely book copublished by Routledge and MiddleWeb, media literacy expert Frank W. Baker offers thematic lessons for every month of the school year, so you can engage students in learning by having them analyze the real world around them. Students will learn to think critically about photos, advertisements, and other media and consider the intended purposes and messages... In addition, the book's lesson plans contain connections to key standards and step-by-step activities you can use immediately. With this practical book, you'll have all the tools and ideas you need to help today's students successfully navigate their media-filled world"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Eye on Education book.
Contents:
Exploring media literacy with students -- Close reading and what it means for media literacy -- What's missing from that media message? -- Unraveling the messages in TV advertising -- Examining the political announcement -- Truth vs propaganda in political ads -- Media literacy week -- a time to remember why media literacy is so important -- Teach students to analyze political debates -- Students need help detecting fake news -- Examining holiday toy ads -- Looking beyond the toy ads to a world saturated with marketing messages -- Engaging in the study of parody -- How big media influences the news we read -- Looking deeper into Super Bowl ads -- Being savvy about diet ad season -- Studying black history through the vision of Gordon Parks -- Civil Rights -- how pictures changed America -- Learning from the Academy Awards -- Exploring the language of film -- Reading the symbols of costume design -- Comparing: history vs Hollywood -- who gets the story right? -- Analyzing the media though docudramas -- How media appeals to our emotions -- Examining product placement -- Noticing the power of branding -- Understanding media messages in popular magazines -- Reading and interpreting iconic news images -- The role of celebrity in raising our awareness.
Subjects:
Media literacy -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs.
Media literacy -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Mass media in education -- United States.
Media literacy -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs.
Media literacy -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Mass media in education -- United States.
ISBN:
9781138216006
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Includes bibliographical references.