Rationale
In January 2010 the Kaiser Family Foundation created a foundation study entitled GENERATION M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds. Their findings revealed that eight- to eighteen-year-olds spend almost as much time immersed in media as lost in sleep. This averages out to be roughly 7 ½ hours during which children, tweens, and teenagers are exposed to media on a daily basis. 3
Media is all around us and it is necessary for students to have the skill to interpret it. The curriculum for Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition asks students to read texts responsibly by focuses on the three literary genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. Because of its traditional curriculum, the AP class rarely affords opportunities to read texts that go beyond the canon. The intent of this unit is not only to have students translate the critical techniques they have learned through the year to different kinds of texts, but to also take highly technical language and test them against a visual text.
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