House Hippo

Description

This activity encourages students to deconstruct a television commercial in the hopes of providing young people with the tools to understand what goes on behind the scenes to create meaning on the screen. Students view an "unlikely commercial" and then examine the ways in which television can misconstrue facts. They create a poster intended to misrepresent facts and then act out their own commercial, which is intended to have the viewer suspend her disbelief.

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