Consider the Source: Comparing News Coverage About the Taliban Regime from Around the World
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- Aug 18 2010 8:41 AM
Matching // Celeste Higby
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Description
In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn to critically compare news reporting from around the world, focusing on coverage of the Taliban regime. After assessing television news reports, students compare and contrast television and print media reporting on the issue.
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Topics and Grades
Grade: 6 to 12
Topics: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, Career & Technical Ed, World History, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, American Democracy, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies
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ELA.11-12.LS.C.1.1 Recognize strategies used by the media to inform, persuade, entertain, and trans...
ELA.11-12.R.CAGLAT.2.4. Make warranted and reasonable assertions about the author's arguments by using e...
ELA.9-10.LS.C.1.2 Compare and contrast the ways in which media genres (e.g., televised news, news ...
ELA.9-10.R.CAGLAT.2.3 Generate relevant questions about readings on issues that can be researched.
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Grouping: Large Group Instruction
Teaching Method: Cooperative Learning; Discussions