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Challenging Homophobia
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short song excerpts to reflect on messages about gay liberation and resistance to homophobia.
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Unit: Gay LiberationKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
Middle School, High School
Pair, Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Workers Unite!
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short song excerpts to compare songs with messages about worker organizing.
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Unit: Early Labor MovementKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
Middle School, High School
Pair, Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
We Will Be Heard
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using excerpts from songs about women's suffrage to analyze the use of stereotyping in songwriting.
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Unit: Women's SuffrageKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
Middle School, High School
Pair, Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Naming Oppression
Media literacy and critical thinking lesson using four short song excerpts to reflect on messages about women's resistance to oppression.
This resource is part of the following contextual materials. Resources can be explored on their own but are most useful for teachers when downloaded as part of their parent content. Click on the links below to see this Resource in context:
Unit: Women's LiberationKit: Media Constructions of Social Justice
Middle School, High School
Pair, Whole Class
30-60 Minutes
Family Planning: Why it Matters
This is a media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students analyze three short video clips for messages about the needs for and impacts of family planning.
High School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
The Spanish Conquest of Mexico: Whose Story?
In this media literacy activity students analyze excerpts from two films for conflicting messages about the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
High School, College
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Two Views of an Insurrection: January 6, 2021
In this media literacy activity students analyze the choices made in constructing two news reports on the January 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol and how we interpret the bias of each.
High School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Healthy Food: Who’s Telling Me What I Should Eat?
This media literacy activity was created to integrate the teaching of English language instruction with media literacy for educators in Panama. In this media literacy activity students analyze media messages from Panamanian health & nutrition organizations for messages about good nutrition.
Middle School, High School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Money is Not the Same Everywhere: Techniques of Communication
This media literacy activity was created to integrate the teaching of English language instruction with media literacy for educators in Panama. In this media literacy activity students analyze currencies from Panama and the United States for messages about techniques of construction and historical context.
Middle School, High School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes
Panama’s Ethnic Groups- Who Tells Their Story?
This media literacy activity was created to integrate the teaching of English language instruction with media literacy for educators in Panama. In this media literacy activity students analyze websites for messages about Panama’s Indigenous people and about how to judge the credibility of media messages.
Middle School, High School
Whole Class
15-30 Minutes