On page 71 in Beach’s Teachingmedialiteracy.com, it talked about the crime genre. Recently I rented a documentary called Enron, the Smartest Guys in the Room. It is a description of how the Enron catastrophe took place. For students in their high school years, they might find this piece appealing. Correlate a piece a literature with this movie, mix it with it some compare and contrast, and you have a recipe for a decent lesson plan.
Students are definitely interested in day-time talk. It touches all types of social issues. Some of them are more commercialized them others, but getting articles with expert opinions that deal with day-talk issues from shows like Tyra or Maury, can make it educational and interest seeking.
T.V. News.:
Beach notes that news coverage focuses more on a younger audience. There is a lot of ground to cover when it comes to learning about the news business and its operations. Beach also mentions that news is expanding to the web, partially because people in general don’t have time to catch it on T.V. How about a unit where students learn about the simple elements that news coverage uses to run a show. There has to be at least one educational standard they use? Take the methods that news companies use for research, delivery, script writing, collaborations, reporting, and create a news report on an issue they find engaging. Their report doesn’t have to be video inclined; they can have the option to pose it as a written text.
Read an article from the paper, or listen to a commentary on the news, and disagree with it. Demonstrate the disagreement to that news company through writing. Make sure to use an example of how writing a disagreement of a news article can be affective.
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