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Common Core State Standard
SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support. FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 28, 2007 Wireless company name change shows importance of 'branding'![]() ![]() Now that students know about a few examples of branding, they can see that marketing approach all around us. Have them flip through any sections of the paper to find advertising images, headlines and slogans that reinforce a brand identity. Which work well and which don't?
![]() Newspapers position themselves to stand out among information and entertainment sources. Challenge students to list three words that describe this paper's marketplace image and then discuss how news coverage, editorials, page design, photos, section names, contests, the web site and the Page One nameplate ("flag") all help shape its brand image.
![]() Some brand images in the paper belong to celebrities. Engage the class' attention by asking for singers, actors, musicians or other pop culture figures with positive and negative "brand identities" -- and the reasons why.
A leading communication company, AT&T, is in the final push of a sweeping identity makeover as it officially changes the name of 1,800 retail stores from Cingular to AT&T. The campaign, using print and TV ads nationwide, is one of the biggest blitzes of this type in marketing history and is an example of something called “re-branding.” AT&T, with initials dating back to the 19th century birth of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., has an "old school" image as a business that was around in your great-grandfather's day. Now it wants a single brand name to identify it as a one-stop shop for all kinds of communications and entertainment services, including long-distance and local phone service, wireless, television and high-speed Internet. It’s the only carrier providing service for Apple’s iPhone, which it starts selling in June.
Cingular’s name phase-out began in January after AT&T completed its purchase of that wireless giant. The orange logo and Cingular name will disappear from new devices being sold, as well as from all other uses.
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