Optional Writing Assignment: Critical Media Response: Jim Prentice Acceptance Speech or BC Government-Teachers Labour Dispute

You may include optional assignments in your portfolio for report card evaluation.

Read Jim Prentices’ acceptance speech and write a critical response (~350 words). Please use Dr. Lori Laday’s critical response questions for prompts in the link below.  You may submit comments on specific lines of the speech via google docs, however, this will still need to be supported by an introductory or concluding paragraph.

If you choose the labour dispute, research current media articles to inform your understanding of the issue, stakeholders, and tension. Use the “How to Detect Bias in New Media” link for question prompts. Cite sources and information using proper grammatical conventions, and adapting Chicago Style by pasting relevant links into footnotes. Footnote shortkeys: Ctrl+Alt+F.