Lesson 4: Evaluating Change Over Time in Media
Duration of Days: 1
Lesson Objective
Students will trace how media reporting on a single long-term current event has evolved over a decade.
How does time modify public consensus and media messaging? What causes news coverage to shift over time?
MBL Standard 1C; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.2.
1. Hook: Compare a historical news broadcast with a modern digital stream on the same long-term topic.
2. Instruction: Discuss how "change over time" applies to sociology, politics, and media coverage.
3. Group Work: Examine a timeline of news clips from 2016 to the present day on a major ongoing issue.
Understand structural shifts in society; DOK Level 2 (Skill/Concept).
Graphic organizers tracking dates and narrative shifts; flexible grouping with peer support.
Timeline graphic organizer showing at least three distinct shifts in media messaging over time.