Comparing Accounts Across Media
Aligned to RI.9-10.7 — Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.
What this lesson teaches
A print article, a podcast, and a video can cover the same event yet stress different details; compare what each medium emphasizes and why.
Worked example
A print report on a flood lists rainfall totals, while a video leads with footage of a stranded family — the print stresses scale, the video stresses human impact.
Practice questions
- List the details two different accounts of one event emphasize.
- Explain why a medium might highlight images over statistics.
- Analyze which account gives the fuller understanding, and why.
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Every lesson comes with a video taught in English and Spanish — the same video the QR code in the printed workbook opens.
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Comparar versiones en distintos medios
Un artículo, un pódcast y un video pueden cubrir el mismo hecho y resaltar detalles distintos; compara qué enfatiza cada medio y por qué.
Ejemplo: Un reportaje escrito sobre una inundación enumera los milímetros de lluvia, mientras un video abre con imágenes de una familia atrapada; el texto resalta la magnitud y el video, el impacto humano.
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