and about Television What particular text should a teacher choose?
There is Student Activity 9 that
provides students with a series of choices for thinking, talking, and writing about television.
Taught in general term
Many teachers are familiar with a close reading of a written text. The critical-reading approach utilized in this activity is very similar to one which teacher might already employ in teaching the analysis of narrative coherence, a short story.
There is Student Activity 10, that student should to identify random
facts within a storyline and then interpret those facts as patterns which cohere in this overall narrative.