Lesson Plan: Katrina Media Response
Friday, Week 2
Name: Justin Jordan
Class/Subject: 8th Grade Social Studies
Big Idea: How natural disasters can expose the foundational weakness within society both culturally and politically
Essential Question:
1) To what limit individuals will go to survive during a national disaster, do laws still apply or there exceptions made during times of distress?
2) Do the media portray the same actions differently due to race, sex, or religion?
Objective: For students to gain a better understanding of how race still plays a pivotal role in how images are presented through the media
Rationale: By creating captions students may be able to expose some of their own personal biases and gain a better understanding how biases my seep through the media
Content Standards:
18. B.3b Explain how social institutions con¬tribute to the development and transmission of culture.
18. B.3a Analyze how individuals and groups interact with and within institutions (e.g., educational, military).
17. B.3b Explain how changes in components of an ecosystem affect the system overall.
College Readiness Standards:
• Identify clear main ideas or purposes of complex passages or their paragraphs
• Draw complex or subtle generalizations and conclusions about people, ideas, and so on, often by synthesizing information from different portions of the passage
• Understand and generalize about portions of a complex literary narrative
• Determine, even when the language is richly figurative and the vocabulary is difficult, the appropriate meaning of context-dependent words, phrases, or statements in virtually any passage
Procedure:
1) Students will be given the two different pictures each showing an individual taking food from a store after hurricane Katrina struck and explain the task that they are to complete. 5 mins
2) In groups of 4-5 students will write a caption about what they feel the individual is doing and a paragraph rationale behind their caption 10 mins
3) Students will then present to the class their assignment, their caption and why they chose that particular caption. On the board key words will be chosen from each caption. 25 mins
4) The students will then be presented with the actual captions for the pictures. Afterward they will write a journal entry on their reaction to the actual caption. 10min
List of Materials: Print-outs of photo
Assessment: Students will be graded on their reflections. Within the reflections students will be asked to analyze the information and analyze the role race plays in how information is presented.
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