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Where's the Media? How Can You Tell?

Students analyze an array of images of potential new and old media forms for messages about what constitutes media and the purposes of media through the ages.

Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School
Subject: General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts

Hate Culture, the Internet, and What Can We Do?

Students analyze videos for messages about how digital platforms, especially social media, accelerate hate ideology and about actions people can take to challenge hate speech.

Grade Level: High School, College
Subject: Psychology, Journalism, US History, Civics And Government, Sociology, General Media Literacy, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts

The Early Feminists and Haudenosaunee Women: The Origins of Women’s Rights in the U.S.

Students analyze and ask questions about a 1914 political cartoon and a 2020 documentary film clip for messages about the impact of Haudenosaunee women on the early women’s rights movement in the United States.

Grade Level: Middle School, High School, College
Subject: US History, Civics And Government, Sociology, Library/Information Literacy, ELA/English Language Arts

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Pride and Protest

With June designated as LGBTQ Pride Month, the analysis of media messages about gender and sexual identities is particularly relevant – including lessons in the unit on Gay Liberation in the curriculum kit, "Media Constructions of Social Justice."

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