Flipping the Script

Flipping the Script: Critical Thinking in a Hip Hop World , is designed to help educators teach media literacy concepts and media production skills around the exciting and engaging theme of Hip-Hop culture and music.

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The curriculum includes a 64-page guidebook, with lesson plans and activities, a companion video or DVD, and extensive website resources . The materials can be integrated into any classroom or after school-program, regardless of location or the educator’s knowledge of Hip-Hop.

By dissecting current lyrics and videos, as well as looking at the broader historical evolution of Hip-Hop culture, students develop a new perspective on the music and images that surround them. They also look at the purpose and effects of media techniques, such as camera angles, lighting, and use of sound.

The curriculum then helps students become media makers themselves. Using Hip-Hop as a focus for their own media projects, students are encouraged to create their own spoken word poems, raps, CD’s, videos, web sites, or digital artwork. This work fosters arts and technology career-building skills, including interview techniques, digital still and video photography, audio recording, story-boarding, and digital editing.

Finally the curriculum shows students how to showcase their own media projects through school fairs, community exhibitions, film festivals, the Internet, and other venues. Sharing projects with a greater community creates a forum for youth voice, raises community awareness, fosters dialogue, and debunks stereotypes around Hip-Hop culture and other youth issues. Audiences will see Hip-Hop through the eyes of youth via media projects developed, designed, and produced by youth.

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