Week of May 2nd: Closing Arguments

CLOSING ARGUMENTS

Learning Goals

By the end of this activity you will be able to:

form judgments about how the medium affects the way a story is told/information is presented;
select an appropriate media text to communicate your ideas.

Today, we will review Unit 2 success criteria, then we will continue working on the cumulating task for this unit.

By the end of this activity you will be able to:

Evaluate the ways a news story is affected by the medium in which the story is communicated.

Today, you will have time to work on your reader’s journals for book 2.

Then you will have time to finish Unit 2: Investigating the Media Activity 2 assignments

graphic organizer analyzing the Amanda Lang conflict of interest story;
blog post summarizing the most interesting conclusions you can draw about the way the story was covered differently by different news media.