Welcome to Your Last Ninth Grade Unit!

Goal: Kick off our last unit of 9th grade by learning about social groups and editorials 

Agenda: 
Read 
Brainstorm Social Groups 
Define Editorial 
Investigate a Text

1. What is a social group? 

• Define social group
• Name as many social groups as we can

2. What is an editorial? 

• An editorial is an article that presents the newspaper's opinion on an issue. 
• Editorial writers build on an argument and try to persuade readers to think the same way they do. 
• Editorials are meant to influence public opinion, promote critical thinking, and sometimes cause people to take action on an issue. 
• In essence, an editorial is an opinionated news story.

3. Investigate a Text

• This is a table activity. 
• I will be passing out an investigative sheet that each table will fill out.
• Do not fill out any box until you get the hints. 

Tonight's Task:

Check out what groups you see represented on television, in video games, on social media, and in music. How are different social groups represented in media? 

Editorial Definition Source: Weintraut