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The Citizen Reporter Lesson PlanThe Citizen Reporter Lesson Plan
Publisher
Media Smarts
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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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3 hrs
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2016
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The Citizen Reporter

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Ripped from the headlines! Discuss topical social issues like racism, discrimination, and diversity while exploring the concept of citizen journalism. Begin with a professional-looking presentation on the history of citizen journalism. Next, split the class in half and use the provided resources to analyze mainstream and citizen news sources for accuracy and completeness vs diversity representation. Finally, students write blogs expressing their opinion on one of the discussed topics.

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Media Literacy, journalism, citizenship, current events, discrimination, diversity, news media, social issues, media analysis, news broadcast

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citizenship, discrimination, diversity, media, news, social issues, citizen, racial issues, journalism, current events, citizenship in a democracy, race in society, english language arts

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