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STANDARD 3.5 (VIEWING AND MEDIA LITERACY) Grade Twelve

Strands with Cumulative Progress Indicators

A. Constructing Meaning from Media

  1. Understand that messages are representations of social reality and vary by historic time periods and parts of the world.
  2. Identify and evaluate how a media product expresses the values of the culture that produced it.
  3. Identify and select media forms appropriate for the viewer's purpose.

B. Visual and Verbal Messages

  1. Analyze media for stereotyping (e.g., gender, ethnicity).
  2. Compare and contrast three or more media sources.

C. Living with Media

  1. Use print and electronic media texts to explore human relationships, new ideas, and aspects of culture (e.g., racial prejudice, dating, marriage, family and social institutions, cf. health and physical education standards and visual and performing arts standards).
  2. Determine influences on news media based on existing political, historical, economical, and social contexts (e.g., importance of audience feedback).
  3. Recognize that creators of media and performances use a number of forms, techniques, and technologies to convey their messages.