Critical Literacy
Essential Questions• What power do you have as a reader?
• What is the author’s perspective? • What does the author want me to believe or do? • What information did the author include to influence me? • What evidence is included? |
Unit Goals• Readers understand that media messages (advertisements, radio ads, PSAs, OpEds, blogs, and nonfiction articles) represent beliefs held by the author and groups in society.
• Readers analyze the choices the author makes (organization, language, and format) to construct power, position, and perspectives. • Readers take a critical stance while reading, analyzing the author’s explicit and implicit beliefs and comparing them against their own. • Readers determine whether or not to accept how the text is positioning them. |
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Functional Formats
Texts that provide support and helpful information to readers are functional texts. Functional texts are found in a variety of places such as; an instruction manual, the recipe, a website, search engine, applications, advertisements and invitations.
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Flyers |
Recipes |
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