Language Arts - 12th Grade

• CNN Student News
  CNN Student News web site provides news for students and resources for teachers on how to use the site. Cross-curricular ideas are available for all subject areas.
• Media Awareness Network
  The Media Awareness Network (MNet) is home to one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of media education and Internet literacy resources. MNet’s work is based on the belief that to be functionally literate in the world today-–to be able to "read" the messages that inform, entertain and sell to us daily-–young people need critical thinking skills. To that end, Mnet examines a wide range of media, including television, film, video games, newspapers, advertising and popular music. The Educators section includes teaching units and a variety of supporting materials.
• Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art From WW II
  In addition to literal weapons of war, words, posters, and films waged a constant battle for the hearts and minds of the American citizenry during WW II. Persuading the American public became a wartime industry, almost as important as the manufacturing of bullets and planes. The Government launched an aggressive propaganda campaign with clearly articulated goals and strategies to galvanize public support, and it recruited some of the nation's foremost intellectuals, artists, and filmmakers to wage the war on that front. This site, which features the posters created during this era, explores various strategies of persuasion.
• The Merchants of Cool
  This website is a companion to the PBS documentary that bears the same name. The program and the site talk with top marketers, media executives and cultural/media critics. It explores the symbiotic relationship between the media and today’s teens.