In this lesson students learn about the history of blackface and other examples of majority-group actors playing minority-group characters such as White actors playing Asian and Aboriginal characters and non-disabled actors playing disabled characters.

In this lesson students explore how the stereotypes and technical devices used in television crime dramas impact real life attitudes and perceptions about crime.

«Scripting a Crime Drama» is intended to follow lesson two of the Crime Drama unit: «Viewing a Crime Drama.» In this lesson, students will tackle the scripting of a television crime drama by looking at the plot formulas and structures that underpin this genre. Students begin by studying a script from an actual television series and then they script and produce their own crime dramas.

This lesson helps students understand the different types of «cop shows» that appear on television.