Lesson Planners: Ian, Oliver, & Chris
We started the workshop with a fun storytelling game. One person would start the story, and then everyone else added to it. This helped everyone share their ideas and hear different parts of the story. After that, we told a new version of The Three Little Pigs. But the students didn’t seem very excited about it, so it felt a little awkward. To make things better, we moved on to a debate. Since they still weren’t super excited, the debate was also a little awkward at first.
After some time, the activities helped everyone feel more comfortable, and they started talking to each other more. When the debate ended, they got really interested in learning about media literacy, so we did another activity. For the last activity, we showed two newspapers from different publishers and asked them to find the differences between them.
At the end of the workshop, we talked about why it’s important to look at news from different perspectives. We also taught them how to check if news is true, like looking at who wrote it, when it was posted, checking other websites, and even looking at the numbers at the end of a link. This helped them learn to think carefully about what they see online.
We introduced the workshop and its objectives.
We read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs together.
Students were divided into groups for the debate.
Students wrote their arguments on a poster.
We guided students in organizing their ideas.
The debate began!
The pig-side lawyers presented their arguments first.
The wolf-side lawyers responded by sharing their perspectives.
Students identified the differences between two newspaper articles.
The titles revealed that the articles were written from different perspectives.