First Lines Analysis

CNL News Lesson

Lesson Outline

Written By:
Glenn Hadzima
News Literacy Summer Institute 2011

This collection of the first sentences of famous novels and publications serve as models for students to use to explain how added evidence would turn the statements from assertions to reliable statements.

News Literacy Connections

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  • News Literacy Lesson 9: Evaluating Sources
    • Use the IMVA/IN (Independent, Multiple, Verified, Authoritative/Informed, Named) mnemonic to verify sources.

 

 

  • News Literacy Lesson 4: Know Your Neighborhood.
    • News is characterized as a piece of information that has gone through the journalistic process of Verification, and for which an Independent individual or organization is directly Accountable.