Alabama Social Studies SS24.CWI.1b

Social StudiesGrades 9–12Media Literacy

The Standard

SS24.CWI.1: Explain how cultural, geographic, political, and social points of view can influence media descriptions of current international events.

Describe the impact of current news stories and the issues they present on the individual and on local, national, and international communities.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Media Literacy

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify the issue in a current news story. They explain how it affects or could affect a person, their community, the country, and people in other countries.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given an article on food prices, a student can describe possible effects on a shopper, a local store, households nationwide, and growers abroad. They use details from the article and label effects it does not confirm as predictions.
Common Misconceptions: Students may assume everyone is affected in the same way. They may also treat a possible effect as a fact, or mistake a story from another country for one with no local impact.
How to Assess It: Give students a news article from this week. Ask: What issue does it raise, and how might it affect one person, your community, the country, and another country? Underline effects the article supports.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a current article on food prices and four sticky notes to record effects on a person, their town, the country, and another country.
Ask students to write one effect the article reports and one they predict, then explain what evidence would confirm their prediction.
Write eight impact cards, some reported and some predicted; have pairs sort them by scale and flag cards that need more evidence.
Have students find an imported food at home, note its price and origin, and explain how the article's issue might affect its cost.

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