Censoring the Press

Grade
6-9
9-12
Lesson Duration

From The Learning Network’s “50 Ways to Teach With Current Events” by Michael Gonchar

This site has 50 ideas to help teachers bring current events into the classroom.

Idea #40: “Consider Censorship Through Any Day’s Front Page: What if we didn’t have freedom of the press? Ask students to take the front page of any New York Times and put an X over the stories that might be censored if our government controlled the press.” Censoring the Press (PDF) handout

tags: fake news, media literacy

Source

The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content.