Lesson: Bias and Crime in Media

Strand A: Literacy Connections and Applications

A1. Transferable Skills

A1.1 Receptive and Expressive Communication

analyze and explain how transferable skills can be used to support communication in various cultural, social, linguistic, and domain-specific contexts, and apply them when reading, listening to, viewing, and creating texts of various forms

A2. Digital Media Literacy

A2.4 Forms, Conventions, and Techniques

evaluate the use of the various forms, conventions, and techniques of digital and media texts, consider the impact on the audience, and apply this understanding when analyzing and creating texts

A2.5 Media, Audience and Production

demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships between the form, message, and context of texts, the intended and unintended audience, and the purpose for production

A2.7 Community and Cultural Awareness

communicate and collaborate with various communities in a safe, respectful, responsible, and inclusive manner when using online platforms and environments, including digital and media tools, and demonstrate and model cultural awareness with members of the community

 

Strand C: Comprehension (Understanding and Responding to Texts)

C1. Knowledge about Texts

C1.2 Text Forms and Genres

analyze and compare the characteristics of various text forms and genres, including cultural text forms, and provide evidence to explain how they help communicate meaning

C1.3 Text Patterns and Features

compare the text patterns, such as compare and contrast in an expository essay, and text features, such as footnotes and copyright information, associated with different text forms, including cultural texts, and evaluate their importance in helping readers, listeners, and viewers understand the meaning

C1.6 Point of View

analyze the narrator’s point of view, including limited, omniscient, or unreliable, in a variety of texts, explain how it is communicated, and suggest alternative points of view, giving reasons

C2. Comprehension Strategies

C2.4 Monitoring of Understanding: Ongoing Comprehension Check

select suitable strategies, such as rereading, using the glossary, asking questions, and consulting references and other resources, to monitor and confirm their understanding of complex texts and solve comprehension problems

C2.5 Monitoring of Understanding: Making Connections

connect, compare, and contrast the ideas expressed in texts and their knowledges and lived experiences, the ideas in other texts, and the world around them

C2.6 Summarizing: Identifying Relevant information and Drawing Conclusions

summarize and synthesize the important ideas and supporting details in complex texts, and draw effective conclusions

C3. Critical Thinking in Literacy

C3.2 Making Inferences

make local and global inferences, using explicit and implicit evidence, to explain and support their interpretations about various complex texts

C3.3 Analyzing Texts

analyze complex texts, including literary and informational texts, by assessing the credibility, reliability, and significance of information and formulating conclusions

C3.4 Analyzing Cultural Elements of Texts

analyze cultural elements that are represented in various texts, including, norms, values, social hierarchy, pastimes, language, and taboos, by investigating the meanings of these elements, making connections to their lived experience and culture, and considering how the inclusion of these elements contributes to the meaning of the text

C3.5 Perspectives within Texts

analyze explicit and implicit perspectives communicated in various texts, evaluate any evidence that could show bias in these perspectives, and suggest ways to avoid any such bias

C3.6 Analysis and Response

explain how various topics, such as diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, are addressed in texts, respond to the insights and messages conveyed, and different positions presented

 

Strand D: Comprehension (Understanding and Responding to Texts)

D1. Developing Ideas and Organizing Content

D1.2 Developing Ideas

generate and develop ideas and details about complex topics, such as topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to other subject areas, using a variety of strategies, and drawing on various resources, including their own lived experiences

D1.3 Research

gather and synthesize information and content relevant to a topic, using a variety of textual sources and appropriate strategies; evaluate the currency, quality, bias, and accuracy of information; verify the reliability of sources; and check copyright and cite the sources for all content created by others

D2. Creating Texts

D2.1 Producing Drafts

draft complex texts of various forms and genres, including narrative, persuasive, expository, and informational texts, citing sources, and use a variety of appropriate media, tools, and strategies to transform information and communicate ideas

D2.4 Point of View and Perspective

explain the explicit and implicit points of view, perspectives, and bias conveyed in their texts, evaluate how various audiences might respond, and suggest ways to acknowledge other perspectives