Facts and Opinions / Ads and Articles

Magazine literacy is more then thumbing through articles and advertisements. It about deciphering facts from fiction and this is a very important skill to support because young people are bombarded with images and information all of the time. What is fact and what is fiction? It's good to practice these ideas and in this art project we learned about Shirley Chisholm.

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. She was the first Black Congresswoman and represented New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. 

The project was to memorialize her run for presidency in 1972 with a campaign poster/article. The top half of the article would be a visual collage poster with a quote and opinions. The goal was to create an advertisement to encouraging folks to vote for Ms. Chisholm. The bottom would be a factual article with only facts about Shirley Chisholm and her career. We discussed how sometimes articles can become advertisement for people and or services.

In one of my classes I had a brief 4 paragraph write up on Chisholm and after we read it all together they chose which paragraph would be best for their ad/article. 

We also watched this 2minute video: 

http://youtu.be/kc1coVnxU9s