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Media Consumers and Creators, What Are Your Rights and Responsibilities? Lesson PlanMedia Consumers and Creators, What Are Your Rights and Responsibilities? Lesson Plan
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Teaching Tolerance
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6th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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Media Consumers and Creators, What Are Your Rights and Responsibilities?

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This Media Consumers and Creators, What Are Your Rights and Responsibilities? lesson plan also includes:
  • News Consumers' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
  • 5 Steps to Improve Your Media Literacy
  • A Finder's Guide to Facts
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Teach the class to separate fact from fiction. Scholars explore the topic of fake news as they read PEN America's News Consumers' Bill of Rights and discuss the rights and responsibilities outlined in the bill. Next, they read an article about fake news and break into small groups to discuss and summarize the text.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

Media Literacy, news media, consumers, news reporting, media bias, digital citizenship, informational texts

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Write the word consumer on the board and have students free-associate any related words, images, and ideas
  • Show the video What is Fake News?

Classroom Considerations

  • One of a two-lesson series about the responsibilities of news creators and consumers

Pros

  • Provides clear objectives and essential questions
  • Includes links to several additional resources for further exploration of the topic 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

CCRA.R.2 CCRA.R.9 CCRA.R.10 CCRA.W.4 CCRA.W.10 CCRA.SL.1 CCRA.SL.2 CCRA.SL.4

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