Rev. Wright, Critical Thinking, Summarizing, and Media Representations
Rev. Wright, Critical Thinking, Summarizing, and Media Representations
Rev. Jeremiah Wright made a speech to the National Press Club today in which he considered “critical thinking”, sound bites (summarizing), media representations, liberation theology and Dr James Cone (a recent visitor who addressed our NJCU community)and made references to the Langston Hughes poem, I am the darker brother, and Carter G. Woodson’s book, Mis-Education of the Negro among others.
The complete video of Wright’s address is here:
http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/video-rev-dr-jeremiah-wright-at-the-national-press-club-speech-qa/
An interesting lesson could be created for middle or high school students in which:
A. Students view the video (it is in six segments)over a period of six days,
B. Students summarize or outline the main points of each segment,
C. Students view the print and video reports created by newspapers and television media.
D. Students compare and contrast their summaries to those of the established media.
E. Students could then examine the accounts for multiple perspectives, bias and subjective language
F. An open-ended discussion of their findings could be the culminating activity.
Some books in the CMC collection that may be of interest are :
Media today : interpreting newspapers, magazines, radios, TV, movies and the Internet (Text 384 .M489)
U.S.-Japan relations : the view from both sides of the Pacific. Part II, The media in U.S.- Japan relations : a look at stereotypes (CMC E183.8.J3 M84 1994)
Students could also take a look at the many theorists, historical events and personages, and literary works that Wright mentioned.
Rev. Wright, Critical Thinking, Summarizing, and Media Representations