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Kazmiera Tarshis

1. CONTEXT: The way that society views teenagers who come from the inner city and they way they are portrayed in the news.
2. CONTENT: They created the project to give teenagers a voice, in particular inner city teenagers.
3: FORM: They created a show using cars in a roof parking lot. The student actors talked about issues that are important to them.
4. STAKEHOLDERS:  The 200 teenagers in Oakland who came together to put on a performance.
5. AUDIENCE: It was created to show the general public of adults what is really going on in teenager’s lives.
6. ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES: By giving the students cars to talk in, they gave them a place that made them feel free to speak out and have important conversations with their peers. They reeled in the audience by calling the piece “ The roof is on fire” and talking about serious issues that are misrepresented in the press.
7. GOAL: To change the perspective of the community and to help get rid of teenage stereotypes in the media.
8. VALUES: To really let the teenagers speak for themselves and to also teach the teachers’ new ways to talk to them about the way minorities are portrayed in the media, specifically minority teens.
9. RESOURCES: They used cars, a rooftop, media literacy in classrooms and many teenagers and teachers to create this project.
10: OUTCOMES: There was a very positive outcome, where adults actually listened to the teenagers talk about their lives. The plan was to have the audience leave knowing what the real reality actually is, compared to what they thought it was.

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