When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start the first full-time China bureau for “Marketplace,” the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became much more—it offered the opportunity to reconnect with members of his extended family who had remained in China after his parents fled the communists six decades prior. By uncovering the stories of his family’s history, Tong discovered a new way to understand the defining moments of modern China and its long, interrupted quest to go global.

This individual lesson plan provides eight different small group activities using resources such as political cartoons, advertisements, movie reviews, letters to the editor, and opinion polls to help students recognize bias and stereotyping and identify key issues when analyzing information in the media.

From full unit titled The Media in U.S.-Japan Relations: A Look at Stereotypes.
(http://spice.stanford.edu/publications/11158/)