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    - Umberto Eco
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Know TV

This curriculum with video clips promotes critical analysis of non-fiction television for students in grades 6 - 12 and demonstrates simple but powerful learning activities that help build critical thinking and communication skills.


Winner of the Golden Cable ACE Award for Public Interest Programming

 

  • A. Know TV Learning Goals
  • Essential Question 1: What is a documentary?
  • Essential Question 2: What is the purpose?
  • Essential Question 3: How does the purpose shape the content?
  • Essential Question 4: How are language, sound and image used to manipulate the message? Part 1
  • Essential Question 4: How are language, sound and image used to manipulate the message? Part 2
  • Essential Question 4: How are language, sound and image used to manipulate the message? Part 3
  • Essential Question 5: What techniques are used to enhance the authenticity of the message?
  • Essential Question 6: What techniques are used to enhance the authority of the message?
  • Essential Question 7: How do different viewers interpret the same message?
  • Essential Question 8: What techniques are used to involve or engage the viewer in the message?
  • Essential Question 9: Who makes money from this message?
  • Suggestions for Additional Lessons
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