A Unit for Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death

This is a lesson-by-lesson unit to be used while having a class read Postman's most famous book. It is perfect for the teacher looking to do a one-month media literacy unit.

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Standards

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.