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Assignment

Take Home: Finding Blurred Lines

Key Lesson

How to recognize different types of content that sometimes takes on characteristics of news

Level

Prior Knowledge

VITA, blurred lines

Prior knowledge

Objectives:

After having completed this assignment, students should:

  • Be able to recognize content that looks like news
  • Differentiate between the different kinds of content
  • Explain what elements of the content classify it as its type

Steps

  • Distribute the worksheet to students and instruct them to find examples of each type of content

Teacher’s Note:

  • It can be helpful to give students a few examples of publications to explore, some of which have a wide variety of blurred lines content and other that have less. This makes for an interesting compare and share discussion.

Look for content that borrows the credibility and characteristics of journalism in order to achieve its goal!

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