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English · Grade 10

Informational Synthesis and Media Literacy

One local controversy, many sources: the town of Millbrook plans to replace its old public pool with a splash pad. Learners synthesize a news report, a resident's viral post, a company press release and a sponsored article; compare how headlines, captions and charts frame the same story; catch misleading data displays and compute the real change; and learn to spot sponsored content and verify claims. They finish by writing a synthesis paragraph that puts three sources in conversation.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 135 minutes
  • Synthesis and media check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Synthesize information across sources, showing where they agree, extend or contradict one another.
  • Analyze how different media (headline, photo caption, video description, infographic) present the same story and what each emphasizes or omits.
  • Evaluate data displays for misleading choices such as truncated axes, cherry-picked time ranges and missing comparisons.
  • Recognize sponsored content and press releases, identify their persuasive purpose and verify their claims.

Lessons

  1. Synthesis: putting sources in conversation 6 steps3 practiceabout 34 min
  2. Same story, different media 6 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  3. Reading charts critically 5 steps3 practiceabout 34 min
  4. Sponsored content and verification 7 steps4 practiceabout 34 min
  5. Synthesis and media check 9 questions at the end

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