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__**Step 1**__

1. Create a list of all the types of media you or your group can think of. If you are on your own, you may need to check out other 8th graders work as the week progresses.

2. Identify the purposes of all media messages – for example to entertain, to inform etc.
 * 1) Newspaper
 * 2) Social Media
 * 3) Books
 * TV
 * 1) Propaganda
 * 2) Movies
 * 3) Internet
 * 4) Radio
 * 5) Magazines
 * 6) Textbooks
 * 7) Music
 * 8) Billboards
 * 9) Advertisements
 * 10) Church Sermon
 * 1) Inform
 * 2) Entertain/ Inform
 * 3) Entertain/ Inform/ Persuade
 * 4) Entertain/ Inform/ Persuade
 * 5) Persuade
 * 6) Entertain/ Inform/ Persuade
 * 7) Inform
 * 8) Entertain/ Inform/ Persuade
 * 9) Entertain/ Inform/ Persuade
 * 10) Inform/ Persuade
 * 11) Entertain/ Inform/ Persuade
 * 12) Inform/ Persuade
 * 13) Persuade
 * 14) Inform/ Persuade

3. How is the media influenced by social, political and economic factors? What other influences do you think media is affected or influenced by?

More today than ever before. In the news stations. Benefit the people who are saying it.

4. What do you think are the effects on those groups of people who are not represented by these media stories and those who portray them?
 * 1) The Iraqi soldiers and the people

1. How are both sides of the war (i.e. Iraqis and the Americans) portrayed in these images and video? The Iraqi people's thoughts are not included.
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2. Your group will now undertake research on the Internet to gain a brief overview of the Iraqi culture. Consider information such as major cities, religion, government, social structures.

Basrah Mosul Irbil || Muslam Islam || Islamic Democratic Constitution Parliamentary democracy || Repressive Dictatorship Industroius United Nations ||  ||   ||
 * Major Cities || Religion || Government || Social Structures ||  ||   ||
 * Baghdad

3. Using the **Presentation (Resource 2),** compare the images portraying the same event. Point out the similarities and differences between them. In slide 3, there are two pictures of an American soldier putting and American flag on the face Saddam Husane. The other picture is them putting an Iraqi flag on his face. There are alot of people at the place that it happened.

4. What choices were made in depicting this event in a certain way (i.e. through photographs, video, or written articles)? They zoomed in and out depending on what they wanted the people to see. In one slide, the put two pictures together to make it look like there were more people there. The American flag was put on his face to make it seem like Americans defeated. 5. How did this information affect your understanding of the event? They made it seem like it was bigger and better than it really was. The media made the people of Iraq look like they were killing the American soldiers. 6. What choices were made by the media in how they captured this event? What elements did they choose to omit or select to show? What do you think the intentions were by portraying the event this way? The made it look like they were helping the people of Iraq but they were just killing the US people. 7. Why do you think the newspaper images were doctored? So it would show that they were helping them but we really weren't. 8. What purpose did it serve? To make it look like they were the bad ones 9. Who gains from altering these images? We did 10. Do you think an altered image can change history, and if so, how? Probably it depends on what it is about.

1. Consider how the Newspaper Editors have chosen to portray the war in Iraq. Consider elements such as a) Image size- they zoomed in and made it look like the two American soldiers were carrying one of their own, but there was probably something else going on in the background that they didn't show b) Use of colour and font size- They made the bad headlines for the US bigger so that people would notice them. c) Dedication of space to a particular article – consider the size of the article. Does this give it more prominence? The article in the Detroit newspaper is really long and the one of the Iraqi is really short. Yes it does but that doesn't mean anything.
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2. Who is the audience of the newspaper? Detroit- Americans Elmondo- Spain 3. Consider the ‘other’ side of the story. Who is not being represented in these newspapers? What ramifications does this have for ‘their’ side of the story? They did not put the thoughts of what the Iraqi people thought and what happened to them or why they were fighting. They also made it seem like the Americans were the ones who were getting attacked by the Iraqis.

__**My Writing Assessment**__

When Bin Laden was killed, that created a lot of controversy. The American soldiers were portrayed as the "good people". In Iraq the people had a statue of Saddam Husein. The American soldiers and journalists