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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Boogie Woogie With a B

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a famous World War II propaganda song, students will explore alliteration by changing the lyrics to create a new version of the song. After discussing what alliteration is and why this particular song was used and enjoyed by the...
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PBS

Pbs: Message Control (Lesson Plan About Propaganda)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson that guides learners through an examination of various forms of propaganda and how propaganda is used to manipulate public opinion. Includes research into the history of propagandistic communications.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Germany's Sculptor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Hitler used art and images as propaganda during WWII. Students will use these primary sources to recognize the manipulation used by the Nazi regime. They will learn how to analyze and recognize the propaganda techniques used by...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Wwii on the Home Front: Civic Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Smithsonian Education presents a lesson covering the WWII's propaganda program which enforced the ideals of Civic Responsibility. Provides eight pages of poster examples, detailed background over the time period, and the goals of the...
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Other

Pde: Sas: Identifying and Understanding Use of Testimonials in Advertising

For Teachers 8th Standards
In this lesson, 8th graders analyze and compare the propaganda techniques used in informational texts, with a particular focus on the use of testimonials. Includes links to recommended resources, scaffolding suggestions, and an...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This multi-session activity features the opportunity to analyze a variety of famous speeches. Learners will look carefully at tone, rhetoric, propaganda techniques, and historical context as they write an analysis paper....
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Other

Laura Candler: Green Court Claims: Are Green Companies Really Green? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this lesson, students investigate claims that companies make about their products and business practices they use to imply that they are environmentally friendly. Students work in groups to research the claim they chose and then...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Recognizing Propaganda: Loaded Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan designed for consumer health class, that is also useful for media literacy. Contains a link to an ad for an abdominal strengthening machine that provides the basis of the lesson plan. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate sources
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: To Buy or Not to Buy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is designed to give students a hands-on experience in advertising a product. Students will learn the various advertising and propaganda techniques. Students will then work in groups to create a commercial advertising their...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: If I Read It, It Must Be True

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working in groups, students identify methods of propaganda and analyze television, magazine, and Internet ads. Groups then create their own ad using one of the identified methods.
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TES Global

Tes: Animal Farm Scheme of Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides ten lessons connected to George Orwell's novella, Animal Farm. An assessment is included that is connected to this allegory and propaganda.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Whose Voice Guides Your Choice?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this one-two week unit, students explore the role media has in influencing public opinion. Students analyze advertising in print, video, and online formats. An optional visit to the Museum of Television and Radio via distance learning...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: This Business Called Learning: Advertising

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After analyzing the techniques of propaganda in commercial advertising, students work in cooperative "business" groups to create an advertising campaign for a new product called Giggle Gum. Campaigns include a press release, slideshow...
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American Forum for Global Education

American Forum for Global Education: International Conflict & the Media (Unit)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This curriculum guide broadly examines the relationships between the media and the military during wartime.
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Other

Ithaca College: Project Look Sharp: Soviet History Through Posters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Multi-unit curriculum kit on the history of the Soviet Union told in five episodes using Soviet posters as source material. Coverage includes the birth of the Soviet Union, Stalin, the Great Patriotic...
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Poster Art From World War Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) explores how words and posters waged a constant battle for the hearts and minds of the American citizenry during World War II.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Rhetoric

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students engage with texts that have persuasive power and examine how argument is created. The variety of texts allows students to evaluate the impact of occasion and audience upon the use of rhetorical appeals in a variety of media....
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Arizona State University

Chicana and Chicano Space: Protest and Persuasion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Part of a larger website provided by Arizona State University on Chicano art, this learning is focused on "Protest and Persuasion," in art, particularly in printmaking or making murals. Includes lessons, sample work, and more.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online

For Students K - 1st
Media Smarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for learners. For this lesson, young students will learn about online advertisements targeted to children. Learners will play on online game; they will create an advertisement for...
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Can You Spot the Ad?

For Students K - 1st
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this activity, young students will learn how to differentiate "branded" and brands" in content. Students will also learn learn strategies and goals of advertisers.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Holocaust's Legacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With this lesson plan, teachers can foster students' understanding of the devastating impact of the Holocaust. Highlights the racism of Nazi Germany and discusses the fact that many people still hold these types of beliefs today.
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TES Global

Tes: The Media: Understanding Key Media Areas

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this unit of study, students will analyze several types of advertisements. Students will analyze how authors pay attention to the language and visuals to appeal to their audiences.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students examine the fallacies that surround them every day, deconstruct fallacious images and messages in advertisements, and demonstrate their understanding of the fallacies through multimedia presentations.
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Other

Freedom on the Move: The Lion's Side: Creating a Resistance Newspaper

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use the Freedom on the Move database of runaway slave ads to re-envision runaway ads to reflect the bravery of the enslaved who liberated themselves. They will construct narratives from the perspective of formerly enslaved...

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