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Lesson 1 (from Front Matter and Part I: It Was Always Only Us)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to analyze concerns of medium and their effects on reception of a text or body of other work. In a broader context, how information is delivered affects how it is received and understood. Strayed notes that the columns that became Tiny Beautiful Things began as a series of entries on a website titled The Rumpus; there is a clear shift in medium at work in creating the book, as well as another from book to visual media, and each will have effects on access to and understanding of the work.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Marshall McLuhan famously notes in his 1964 Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man that “The medium is the message.” What is a medium? What features does a given medium have? How do those features affect the content of a work in that medium?
Group Activity: Use guided discussion...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.7, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.7, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 9-10.8, 11-12.1, 11-12.2, 11-12.8
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