Know TV

Award-winning curriculum helps students critically analyze new forms of documentary television

Created by Renee Hobbs with shpport from Time Warner Cable and Discovery Communications, Inc., 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

Essential Question 4: How are language, sound and image used to manipulate the message? Part 1

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 3

Suggestions for Additional Lessons

Essential Question 7: How do different viewers interpret the same message?

Essential Question 1: What is a documentary?

Essential Question 2: What is the purpose?

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Essential Question 5: What techniques are used to enhance the authenticity of the message?

Essential Question 4: How are language, sound and image used to manipulate the message? Part 2

Essential Question 6: What techniques are used to enhance the authority of the message?