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Counteracting Media Stereotyping

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Discuss media stereotypes with your emerging consumers. They view a television program to identify gender bias. After discussing the clip as a class, each learner writes a story showing more equitable roles. Or consider having them rewrite the clip with the same goal, then they have something to work off of! 

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Media Literacy, main ideas, central ideas, supporting details, details, stereotypes, gender bias, gender, equity

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equity, gender bias, judgement, roles, stereotyping, main idea, media, supporting details, english language arts
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 days
Technology
Video

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