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Speaking of a Free Press

This NAA Foundation publication offers 200 years of notable quotations about press freedoms.

Press Ahead!

Press Ahead! is a teaching tool and planning guide for creating a classroom newspaper. It provides background on the different sections and elements of a newspaper.

Press Freedom in Practice / NAA Foundation

A manual for Student Media Advisors on responding to censorship.

The Newspaper: A Daily Miracle

This is a hands-on student supplement on journalism and the newspaper business. It covers every aspect and department at the newspaper with a chronology of a newspaper’s day.

N the News

This NAA Foundation journalism guide provides a set of eight curriculum units that encompass lesson plans, subject content, activities and assessment tools for use with the daily newspaper.

Journalism Web Resources

Online teacher resources for High School Journalism programs.

Let’s Write a Newspaper Story

(Johns Hopkins University) Get your students hooked on writing.  Imagine your students working cooperatively, motivated and staying focused on the task at hand.  They are writing real-world newspaper stories. With this easy-to-follow unit course, you will help students write authentic newspaper stories based on training developed during an educational partnership between the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Hammond Elementary School in Laurel, MD.

Glossary of Newspaper Terms

Glossary of Newspaper Terms

Creating a Classroom Newspaper

Provides teachers and students all the guidance they need to create their own classroom newspaper, while developing writing and reading skills.

Messages and Meaning

(NAA) The instructional activities in this guide are organized around four units: Accessing, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Communicating Media Messages.  Each activity is identified by the media concept it illustrates with many accompanied by reproducible activity sheets.

Five Key Questions That Can Change the World - Classroom Activities for Media Literacy

This media literacy classroom guide from the Center for Media Literacy provides 25 lesson activities base on five key questions that provide the new framework for media literacy.

Media Literacy Kit

This new Media Lit Kit from the Center for Media Literacy helps organize and promote the importance of teaching this expanded notion of “literacy.” At its core are the basic higher-order critical thinking skills – e.g. knowing how to identify key concepts, how to make connections between multiple ideas, how to ask pertinent questions, formulate a response, identify fallacies – that form the very foundation of both intellectual freedom and the exercising of full citizenship in a democratic society. Visit the Center for Media Literacy web site at: http://www.medialit.org

Mastering the Message

(NAA) This guide is designed to help students gain control of media messages by analyzing them and then using what they learn to create messages of their own.

First Things First - First Amendment Guide

(NAA) Several studies have demonstrated that Americans lack comprehensive knowledge of the rights guaranteed them by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The goal of the First Things First: Using the Newspaper to Teach the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment activity guide is to provide a tool for teachers to build student awareness and understanding about the First Amendment. Incorporating newspaper activities into the curriculum achieves this goal using each of the five freedoms as the vehicle for instruction.

Freedom — It looks Good on You / Teacher Guide

Freedom — It looks Good on You:  This program aimed at students in grades 7-12, is designed to inspire a better understanding and greater appreciation of the First Amendment and its significance in safeguarding our free society.  The supplement has seven objectives: 1) examines the First Amendment in the context of the Bill of Rights and offers an overview of the document; 2) reviews the First Amendment’s five freedoms; 3) identifies nine categories of unprotected speech; 4) highlights First Amendment court decisions; 5) examines the ethics of free expression; 6) explores the First Amendment in our schools; and 7) discusses the need for greater support of the First Amendment in America’s educational system. Freedom — It looks Good on You / Student Supplement Freedom — It looks Good on You / Teacher Guide <-THIS GUIDE Freedom — It looks Good on You / Pre & Post Test on the First Amendment

First Amendment Curriculum Guide

Provided by the Illinois First Amendment Center in partnership with the Knight Foundation. Without question there is an urgent need for committed teaching, lively debate, and consistent application of the First Amendment. This guide will help teachers to do that.

Freedom - It looks Good on You / Student Supplement

Freedom — It looks Good on You:  This program aimed at students in grades 7-12, is designed to inspire a better understanding and greater appreciation of the First Amendment and its significance in safeguarding our free society.  The supplement has seven objectives: 1) examines the First Amendment in the context of the Bill of Rights and offers an overview of the document; 2) reviews the First Amendment’s five freedoms; 3) identifies nine categories of unprotected speech; 4) highlights First Amendment court decisions; 5) examines the ethics of free expression; 6) explores the First Amendment in our schools; and 7) discusses the need for greater support of the First Amendment in America’s educational system. Freedom — It looks Good on You / Student Supplement <-This guide Freedom — It looks Good on You / Teacher Guide Freedom — It looks Good on You / Pre & Post Test on the First Amendment

Freedom — It looks Good on You: Pre & Post Test on the First Amendment

Freedom — It looks Good on You:  This program aimed at students in grades 7-12, is designed to inspire a better understanding and greater appreciation of the First Amendment and its significance in safeguarding our free society.  The supplement has seven objectives: 1) examines the First Amendment in the context of the Bill of Rights and offers an overview of the document; 2) reviews the First Amendment’s five freedoms; 3) identifies nine categories of unprotected speech; 4) highlights First Amendment court decisions; 5) examines the ethics of free expression; 6) explores the First Amendment in our schools; and 7) discusses the need for greater support of the First Amendment in America’s educational system. Freedom — It looks Good on You / Student Supplement Freedom — It looks Good on You / Teacher GuideFreedom — It looks Good on You / Pre & Post Test on the First Amendment (THIS DOCUMENT)

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