The Nomadic Professor: Media Literacy
Teach teens to dissect headlines, decode bias, and cut through media noise using real-world tools, short videos, and sharp analysis. A one-semester course that builds brains, not just opinions.
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2026 Eleventh-Grade Curriculum Kit
The Nomadic Professor: Media Literacy is a one-semester high school course that teaches students how to evaluate modern media, analyze messaging, and assess the reliability of information.
The course is organized into five units—Fundamentals, History, Politics, Language, and Tools—each focusing on a different aspect of how media is created and interpreted. Students examine how information is presented, how language shapes perception, and how bias can influence what is reported and how it is received.
Students work through real examples. They evaluate political cartoons, analyze rhetoric, and practice fact-checking using methods such as lateral reading and source comparison. These activities are designed to help him move beyond reacting to information and begin assessing it more deliberately.
The format combines short video instruction with guided exercises and written responses, allowing students to apply each concept as they learn it.
This course meets the standard 65-hour requirement for ½ credit in language arts. For students who need a more advanced option, it can be extended with additional reading and a research project.
It fits well in the later high school years, particularly for students who are regularly interacting with digital media and need a clearer framework for evaluating what they encounter.
This course trains students to pause before reacting—looking past the headline to ask what’s being said, how it’s framed, and what might be missing.
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The Media Literacy course includes a research and writing assignment that supplements the core content. The paper is largely taught through outside readings in So What?: The Writer's Argument (available from the publisher). A student could take the course without the book if they wanted to plan on finding alternative (free) resources for those lessons or exclude the paper from the course altogether. Excluding the paper would change the hours they put into the course, but essentially, it would be the difference between a standard version of the course (without the paper) to something like an honors version of the course (with the paper).
