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=**Critical Media Literacy Unit**=

Skills and Composition
__Lesson 1__

Vocabulary for Unit
[|Reading 1]

[|Ms. Mac's Blog]

__Lesson 2__

[|Barack Obama]
__Lesson 3__

[|History of America] South Park style
__Lesson 4__

[|ABC News]
__Lesson 5__

Student will enter [|this site] with their partners. One will enter the Afghanistan side and the other will enter Iraq. Students should read through the entire modules. You will be required to narrate your model to your partner and vise versa. Draw four conclusions based on what you read and heard about the way the wars are presented to the public. Present your conclusions in paragraph form to hand in by the end of class. __Week 2__ [|Video Production Hints]

Project description- Student will be required to make a commercial for one of the candidates that is directed at a particular group of people from a particular group. You will receive your assigned categories (If you have any ideas, come see me).

Requirements: 1.	You need a storyboard for the video that I will approve before taping. 2.	You need a completed script. 3.	You need to write a short paper 1 page that explains who your target audience is. You should do some research on your specific groups. 4.	You commercial should only be three minutes long. 5.	Other groups will be trying to figure out your target audience and the desired message of your commercial so please do not reveal ahead of time. 6.	You will have a rubric that you will be graded on and an evaluation sheet for each group.