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Coronavirus as war?
SecondaryYear 9 - 10EnglishPersuasive writingText AnalysisEconomicIndustry, Innovation and InfrastructureSystems Thinking
Lesson Summary
Students will read an article about the power of framing and the use of militarised language to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. They will understand the reasons for this language and the powerful consequences of it. Students will evaluate the framing of simple statements about the coronavirus. They will then judge whether or not they think this framing is appropriate and share their opinions with a peer.
This lesson is designed to be completed by students working in collaboration with a peer. However, it is possible for them to achieve most of the outcomes independently.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- learn to draw comparisons between the pandemic and a war
- analyse the argument made by an author
- understand and analyse the effect of framing
Success criteria
Students can:
- find similarities and differences between a current crisis and others
- connect your own experience of the world to an author's points
- evaluate the effect that specific language and framing has on you and others
- share your opinion on the use of certain framing
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