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Global Media Perspectives. High School and College.
Includes a 120 page kit that provides the materials and background information needed to engage students in a dynamic and constructive process of learning how global media perspectives differ based on country of production, media source, target audience, and political and social context. There are five lessons representing important issues and media documents from: Africa (news and documentary film clips about the food crisis), Latin America (editorial cartoons about immigration), Europe (news and documentary film clips about Islam and cultural identity), India (magazine covers about India's rise in the global economy), and Southeast Asia (websites concerning Islamic majorities and minorities). Originally designed for a ninth grade global studies class, the lessons are easily modified for high school and college courses in history, journalism, geography, economics, and communications. |
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Unit 1 – Islam and Cultural Identity in Europe -- Islam, Muslim, headscarf, veil, hijab, identity, secularism
Unit 2 – Latin American Immigration in Editorial Cartoons -- immigration, U.S. Mexico border fence, separation barrier, border patrol, border protection, anti-terrorism, Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, Secure Fence Act of 2006, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency
Unit 3 -- Food Crisis in Africa -- food crisis, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food aid, agricultural inputs, strategic food reserves, global energy crisis, biofuel, World Bank, food price index
Unit 4 -- India’s Rise in the Global Economy -- outsourcing, overheated economy, growth bubble, global recession
Unit 5 – Islamic Majorities and Minorities in Southeast Asia -- Shariff Kabunsuan Festival, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Bali Conscience Forum, Ahmadiyah sect |
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Media Construction of War: A Critical Reading of History. Middle School through College.
Includes a 125-page kit that analyzes Newsweek coverage of the Vietnam War, Gulf War and the War in Afghanistan. This kit includes three dozen slides of carefully selected Newsweek covers with teacher guides for each, histories of all three wars, a 12-minute video and a lesson plan on media coverage of the Persian Gulf War. Students will learn core information about the wars in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan, how media influences public opinion of current events, and how to ask key media literacy questions and identify bias in the news |
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Unit 1 Vietnam War Agent Orange, bogged down, Lt. William Calley, casualties, censor, Cold War, Commander in Chief, communism, containment of communism, domino theory, draft, exit strategy, French Indochina, French Indochina War, Geneva Accords, genocide, guerilla war, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Ho Chi Minh, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Kent State, Robert McNamara, missing in action (MIA), My Lai Massacre, napalm, National Guard, Richard M. Nixon, North Vietnam, Pentagon Papers, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), quagmire, Saigon, Secretary of Defense, South Vietnam, Tet Offensive, Truman Doctrine, Harry S. Truman, Uncle Sam, Viet Cong (VC), Viet Minh, Vietnamization, War Powers Act, Watergate, Gen. William Westmoreland, whistle-blower
Unit 2 Gulf War air-raid shelter, air strike, Arab, autonomous areas, Baath Party, Basra Road, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, causalities, cease-fire agreement, censor, civilian, William J. Clinton, Coalition forces, Commander in Chief, dictator, dissent, economic sanction, ground offensive, Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Iran-Iraq War, Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurds, Middle East, no-fly zone, Operation Desert Storm, preemptive military action, press briefing, press pool, prisoner of war (POW), public relations (PR), smart bomb, sortie, sovereignty, U.N. weapons inspectors, War Powers Act, weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
Unit 3 War in Afghanistan Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, burka, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush William J. Clinton, commando, covert operations, Islamic fundamentalists, jihad, Kabul, Hamid Karzai, loya jirga, militant, mujahideen, Muslim, Northern Alliance, sanctuary, September 11th, Soviet Union, Taliban, War on Terrorism, World Trade Center |
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Media Construction of the Middle East. Middle School through College
Includes a 250-page kit that covers stereotyping of Arab people, the Arab/Israeli conflict, the war in Iraq and militant Muslim movements. This kit includes 22 lessons with 14 different types of media from documentaries, Disney films, TV news, maps, textbooks and web sites. Students will learn core information and vocabulary about the historical and contemporary Middle East issues that challenge stereotypical, simplistic and uninformed thinking, and political and ethical issues involving the role of media in constructing knowledge, evaluating historical truths, and objectivity and subjectivity in journalism. This kit supports the teaching of global studies, U.S. history, government, current events and media studies classes.
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Unit 1 – Introducing the Middle East – assumption, misperception, Near East, chador Muhammad, ethnocentrism, euro-centrism, generalization, keffiyeh, monotheism, mosque, Muslim, Roman Empire, Western Wall, racism, Arab, ethnicity, political geography, Christian, Jew, Muslim,
Unit 2 – Israel/Palestine Histories in Conflict – British, Canaanite Arabs, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Saladin, Suez Canal, al Nakba (the Great Catastrophe), creation of modern Israel, diaspora, Jewish settlements, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian refugees, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Judea and Samaria, Occupied Territories, The Gaza Strip, Palestine Liberation Organization, Golan Heights, Nasser, West Bank, 1967 boundaries, Intifada, Israeli occupation, terrorist attack, Fedayeen, militant Palestinian nationalists, religious Zionists, Israeli peace movement, r ight of return, Al Quds, refugee camps, security barrier, Western Wall
Unit 3 – War in Iraq – Whose Voice, Whose Story? -- Amariyah Shelter, Gulf War, Norman Schwarzkopf, Operation Desert Storm, U.N. sanctions, Baath Party, invasion of Kuwait, U.N. security resolutions, chemical warfare, Iran-Contra scandal, UNSCOM, Coalition forces, Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, DU weapons, Kurds, totalitarianism, Iranian Revolution, censorship, press pools, U.N. Security Council, George H.W. Bush, oil, public relations (PR), al-Jazeera, embedded reporting, Stockholm syndrome, al-Qaeda, USS Cole, axis of evil, Fox News, WMDs, editorial decisions, causalities, Fallujah, Iraqi elections, shock and awe, collateral damage, Fedayeen, Imam Ali Mosque, Sunni and Shiah split, Najaf, docudrama, video news release, credibility, documentary, target audience, Abu Ghraib, human rights, torture, war on terror, Geneva Convention
Unit 4 – Militant Muslims and the U.S. – Allah, Mecca, Muhammad, Shari’ah, five pillars of Islam, monotheistic, Quran, Sunna, imam, mosque, Ramadhan, Islam, Muslim, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), counter-stereotype, keffiyeh, stereotype, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), jihad, axis of evil, coup in Iran, Mohammed Khatami, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mohammed Mossadegh, Salman Rushdie, hostage crisis, Mohammed Reza, International Atomic Energy Commission, mullahs, SAVAK, chador, Iran-Contra Affair, Shah of Iran, CIA, Iran-Iraq War, nationalize, Shiah, Cold War, Islamic Revolution, oil, Council of Guardians, Persia, White Revolution, 9/11, covert operation, Mullah Omar, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, historical context, Osama bin Laden, Taliban, blowback, jihad, Operation Enduring Freedom, stingers, CIA, war on terrorism, Cold War, mujahidin, extremists, Taliban, Islamic fundamentalism, “clash of civilizations”, suicide bombers, World Trade Center |
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Soviet History through Posters. Middle School through College
Includes a 130 page kit that helps decode the messages of political posters created by Soviet regimes from Lenin and Stalin through Breshnev and Gorbachev. Teachers lead students through the interactive process of applying their historical knowledge to the analysis of these documents using background and additional information and carefully selected probe questions. The kit includes slides of 78 posters with a one-page teacher guide for each. Students will learn core information and vocabulary about the history of the USSR, political and historical perspectives as communicated through visual media, visual literacy and media literacy skills, especially the ability to identify bias in art and propaganda
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Unit 1 – The Birth of the USSR -- Russia, feudal monarchy, World War I, Czar, Bolsheviks, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, communism, Karl Marx, capitalism, capitalist system, proletariat, exploited, bourgeoisie, class struggle, Communist Party, Marxism, Lenin, St. Petersburg, Whites, civil war, famine, Red Army, media, nationalizing, creating a centrally planned economy, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, totalitarianism, Russian Orthodox Church, atheist, new socialist morality, USSR
Unit 2 – Stalin – Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Cult of Personality, totalitarian dictatorship, Man of Steel, state control, secret police, prison camps, Trotsky, show trials, Stalinists, purges, Gulag, New Economic Policies, Five-Year Plan , command economy, forced collectivism, Kulaks, famines, rapid industrialization, forced laborers,
Unit 3 – The Great Patriotic War – World War II, The Great Patriotic War, Adolf Hitler, fascist dictator, Nazi Germany, anti-communist militia, Lebensraum, non-aggression pact, September 1, 1939, Axis, June 22, 1941, Eastern Front, blitzkrieg, Russian winter, prolonged war, Leningrad, 900 days, Battle of Stalingrad, Elba River,
Unit 4 – The Cold War – Cold War, nuclear, superpower, Red Army, Eastern Europe, divided Germany, Iron Curtain, NATO, Warsaw Pact, deterrent, nuclear arms race, President Kennedy, Castro, Cuban Missile Crisis, Fall of China, President Truman, containment, Korea, Vietnam, Central America, Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan, propaganda, Berlin Wall, 1989
Unit 5 – The End of the USSR – Soviet bloc, bureaucracies, stagnation, political life, totalitarian, Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika, capitalist, political reforms, Glasnost, Chernobyl, censorship, media, Eastern Europe, nationalist and democratic movements, Berlin Wall, multi-party democracies, Yeltsin, 15 Republics, Russia |
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Introducing Africa. Elementary Lessons
Includes a 50-page kit with 18 photographs, 40 African dollar bills, and a puzzle wall map all designed to unearth stereotypes about Africa and helps to teach about diversity.
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Unit 1 -- Unearthing Stereotypes -- continent, geography, diversity, culture, stereotype, perspective
Unit 2 – African Money – Africa, culture, geography, diversity, Central African Republic, francs, Egypt, Comoros, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Islam, Arab, mosque, Arabic, dhows, Somali, nomadic animal herding, Egyptian pound, nakfa, Haile Selassie, Volta River, shilling, Kenya tea, Lesotho cattle herding, J.J. Roberts, Liberian rubber trees, Saharan desert nation, rice-growing agriculture, lemurs, fauna species, Kwacha, Naira, Great Rift Valley, Freetown harbor, Tanzania shilling, Uganda cotton mill
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Seeing Africa. Middle School through College
Includes a 90 page kit with PowerPoint lessons, video clips, and student readings which explore African history, challenges stereotypical thinking about Africa, and helps students analyze and evaluate the meanings of mediated messages about Africa.
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Unit 1--Words and Images -- tribe, ethnic group, stereotype, racism, Dark Continent, Stanley and Livingstone, Lake Nyassa, colonialism, civilized, Singe Pieh, King Leopold, Congo, genocide, human rights, White Man’s Burden, Philippines, pro-colonial, anti-colonial, African independence, Cold War
Unit 2 – Democracy in Botswana -- Botswana, British Protectorate, Kgotla, parliamentary democracy, Seretse Khama, colonialism, chief, constitution, traditional, cultural change, Pula, per-capita-income, political stability, Queen Victoria, wage labor, subsistence, privatized, export, bias, consensus, civil society, Greek democracy, anti-Apartheid, ethnic grou
Unit 3 – The San of Botswana -- San, Bushmen, Kalahari Desert, Southern Africa, anthropologists, ethnic minority,hunter-gatherer, resettlement, colonialism, stereotype, development, Game Reserve,
Basarwa, NGOs, indigenous people, cultural genocide
Unit 4 – Africa in Films -- coming-of-age ceremony, theme, plot, setting, dramatic film, documentary film, ritual, tradition, custom, disability, traditional authority, dictatorship, tyrant, symbolism, allegory, popular uprising, military coup, climate, economy, social structure, human relations, modernized, urbanized, bias, cultural diffusion, preconceptions, hip hop, African Diaspora, globalization, colony
Unit 5 – National Geographic’s Africa -- patterns of representation, stereotypes
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