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ITVS Community Classroom lesson plans pair educational film modules drawn from ITVS’s acclaimed documentary films with standards-based lesson plans, activities, and other interactive content.

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	Can You Own a Sound? The basic foundations of copyright law and how the music industry began to respond legally to sampling as hip-hop grew in popularity in the 1990s. From the Copyright Criminals Classroom collection From the film Copyright Criminals
	Gender Violence This lesson analyzes rap music lyrics and their impact on the listener, paying particular attention to misogynistic and homophobic content. (includes 1 film module) From the Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Classroom collection From the film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
	Hip Hop Sampling: Theft or Tribute? This module introduces students to the musical legacies of Clyde Stubblefield and George Clinton, two of the most heavily sampled musicians in hip-hop music. From the Copyright Criminals Classroom collection From the film Copyright Criminals
	Hip-Hop and the Birth of Sampling What sampling is, and how it came to be widely used in the early days of hip-hop music. It also explores the socio-economic conditions that gave rise to hip-hop as a form of cultural expression, and introduces the seminal work of the rap group Public Enemy. From the Copyright Criminals Classroom collection From the film Copyright Criminals
	Homophobia and Gay Rappers in Hip-Hop This lesson asks the taboo questions and challenges the listener to consider the role homophobia in hip-hop plays in maintaining the one-dimensional definition of masculinity that boxes in both men and hip-hop. (includes 1 film module) From the Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Classroom collection From the film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
	Manhood and Gender Identity This lesson delves deeper into understanding how gender roles, especially around manhood, are produced and projected in society as a whole and within hip-hop. (includes 1 film module) From the Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Classroom collection From the film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
	Media Literacy This lesson provides students with an opportunity to do their own media research on and analysis of how media images are manufactured and marketed. (includes 1 film module) From the Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Classroom collection From the film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
	Points of View This lesson examines the many different voices in the film and allows students to reach their own conclusions about and evince their own responses to these points of view. (includes 1 film module) From the Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Classroom collection From the film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
	Sampling in Other Forms of Media and Industry This module explores how other art forms such as the blues and Walt Disney movies have “borrowed” from the work of other artists, and introduces some of the artists at the front of the remix culture that has emerged in the 21st century. From the Copyright Criminals Classroom collection From the film Copyright Criminals