Goal: Kick off our last unit of 9th grade by learning about social groups and editorials Agenda:
Read
Brainstorm Social Groups
Define Editorial
Investigate a Text
1. What is a social group?
- Define social group
- Name as many social groups as we can
- An editorial is an article that presents the newspaper's opinion on an issue.
- Editorial writers build on an argument and try to persuade readers to think the same way they do.
- Editorials are meant to influence public opinion, promote critical thinking, and sometimes cause people to take action on an issue.
- In essence, an editorial is an opinionated news story.
3. Investigate a Text
- This is a table activity.
- I will be passing out an investigative sheet that each table will fill out.
- Do not fill out any box until you get the hints.
Tonight's Task:
Check out what groups you see represented on television, in video games, on social media, and in music. How are different social groups represented in media?
