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Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Be an Adbuster Lesson PlanPbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Be an Adbuster Lesson Plan
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PBS
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3rd - 8th
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Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Be an Adbuster

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Through an integrated approach from PBS, students examine the messages conveyed in print advertisements. Using parody, students are asked to alter the message of an ad to present a different or opposite point of view. Lesson may be more suitable for middle school students. Links available to related literature resources and other lesson plans at the PBS Affluenza site.

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Concepts

advertising, business, critical thinking, economics, point of view

Additional Tags

advertisement, advertising copy, art, communications, critical viewing, language arts, pbs, print media, video, parody, social studies, evaluating advertisements

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RH.6-8.6 RH.6-8.8

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