Fake News

What is the definition of "fake news"?

• News from a political organization

• News that deliberately misleads readers

• News where a reporter unknowingly made a mistake

• All of the above

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

Sources that use humor, irony, exaggeration, ridicule, and false information to comment on current events are...

• Satire

• Fake News

• Click Bait

• Credible

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CCSS.L.7.5D

• Real
• Fake
• Satire
• Click Bait

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.SL.7.2

• Real
• Fake
• Satire
• Click Bait

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.8

• Real
• Fake
• Satire
• Click Bait

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.SL.7.2

Why is fake news a problem?

• It creates fear

• It distracts people from real news

• Peoples' lives are harmed

• all of the above

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CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.W.7.1B

How can you verify a report you suspect is fake?

• Ignore it
• Ask your friend their opinion
• Research the source/author/facts/date
• Share it anyway

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CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.W.7.8

What is a possible reliable source?

• Wikipedia
• Student/Fellow Peers
• Encyclopedia 
• Social Media

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CCSS.W.7.1B

CCSS.W.7.8

Queen Elizabeth has the legal authority to kill President Trump with a sword should he enter Buckingham Palace.

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.SL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.1B

Scientists have successfully recovered the protein from an 80 million year old dinosaur fossil.

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.8