ENG3U Unit 6: Truth on Screen
How documentaries and podcasts shape truth: documentary modes, an editing-room experiment, interview ethics, true crime, and a student podcast or mini-documentary.
Students edit the same twelve clips into two opposite stories, compare two versions of a podcast, practise ethical interviews, analyse a documentary and who funded it, then make their own piece about a local issue.
Assessment of learning: a podcast episode or mini-documentary with a production log and reflection, with a rubric.
Lessons
- What Is True on Screen?
- The Editing Room
- Sound and Voice
- The Interview
- Documentary Case Study
- Truth, Story and Harm
- Pitch and Plan
- Production Day
- Edit and Review
- Listening and Screening Party
What you get
- A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
- Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
- Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
- A Production Kit: release form, production log, storyboard and script templates
- Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
- A unit overview and the summative tasks and rubrics
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