Deep Thought Question – 4/10/13 List five ways that the GOVERNMENT (local, federal, etc.) controls your life. Notebook Announcement!

TURN IN YOUR NOTEBOOK April 11th, 2013 1st period – video examples and 1984 reading Use your notes from yesterday to answer 1984 questions Hunger Games clips Totalitarian Project options TURN IN YOUR NOTEBOOK

Totalitarianism Do it my way, or else

Totalitarianism Describes a government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life Leaders appear to provide a sense of security and to give direction for the future; use technology to reach into all aspects of people’s lives

Key Traits of Totalitarianism Ideology Sets goals and glorifies aims of the state Dictatorship and One-Party Rule Exercises absolute authority Dominates the government Methods of Enforcement Police terror Indoctrination Censorship Persecution

Key Traits of Totalitarianism Dynamic Leader Unites people by being “likeable” Symbolizes government Excellent speaker State Control of Individuals Demands loyalty Denies basic liberties Expects personal sacrifice for good of the state

Key Traits of Totalitarianism State Control of Society Business and labor Education Religion and the arts Youth groups Modern Technology Mass communication to spread propaganda

Hitler totalitarianism video Stalin propaganda video V for Vendetta clip – controlling the media Hunger Games clips 1984 Passage

From Lenin to Stalin

Stalin and Totalitarian Society Police State Secret police monitored telephone lines, read mail, and planted informers everywhere Children told authorities about disloyal remarks that their parents would make Great Purge: Stalin eliminated any potential opponents inside of the Communist party, even those who helped in the revolution led by Lenin 8 million to 13 million Russians were killed "Who's going to remember all this riff-raff in ten or twenty years time? No one. Who remembers the names now of the boyars Ivan the Terrible got rid of? No one."

Stalin and Totalitarian Society Russian Propaganda and Censorship Government controlled all newspapers, movies, and radio No space for individual creativity if it didn’t glorify the USSR Page 446-447 Stalin Video

Worse than Hitler? Around 11 million people were estimated to be killed in the Holocaust by the Nazis, 6 million of those being Jews Stalin launches the Great Purge, which was a campaign of terror aimed at anyone who threatened Stalin’s power 8 million to 13 million people died in this two year period An accepted figure of how many Soviets he had killed? 20 million.

Vsevolod Meyerhold Theater director in the Soviet Union Arrested in 1939 for apparently spying for Japanese and British intelligence "The investigators began to use force on me, a sick 65-year-old man. I was made to lie face down and beaten on the soles of my feet and my spine with a rubber strap... For the next few days, when those parts of my legs were covered with extensive internal hemorrhaging, they again beat the red-blue-and-yellow bruises with the strap and the pain was so intense that it felt as if boiling water was being poured on these sensitive areas. I howled and wept from the pain. I incriminated myself in the hope that by telling them lies I could end the ordeal. When I lay down on the cot and fell asleep, after 18 hours of interrogation, in order to go back in an hour's time for more, I was woken up by my own groaning and because I was jerking about like a patient in the last stages of typhoid fever."

Stalin and Totalitarian Society Education and Indoctrination Schoolchildren learned the virtues of the Communist party Students and professors who questioned the party could lose jobs or be thrown in jail State-supported youth groups formed the future of the party Religious Persecution League of the Militant Godless spread propaganda attacking religion…”museums of atheism” were established Police destroyed churches and synagogues Persecution of Christians Religious leaders were killed or sent to labor camps

April 13th, 2012 – Deep Thought Question What part of the 1984 society is the most alarming or disturbing? Why? Pick up a 1984 reading from the front table if you need to finish the four questions from yesterday… WHEN FINISHED WITH TODAY’S DEEP THOUGHT, TURN IN BELLRINGER FORM. Turn in Russia notes packet if you have not already!

Totalitarian Ruler Projects Next WEEK

Totalitarianism Describes a government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life Leaders appear to provide a sense of security and to give direction for the future; use technology to reach into all aspects of people’s lives

Totalitarian Ruler Project Individual Project Option One Write a three page short story in the same mold as George Orwell’s 1984. Imagine you and your friends as citizens in a totalitarian society. How does the government control you and your daily life? What can you do to express your freedom? Note: short story can be typed but must be at least a page and a half with maximum 12 font in Times New Roman, with maximum 1.5 spacing (no double spacing)

Individual Project Option Two Write a diary entry (around three-quarters to a whole page written) from either a totalitarian leader about the way he or she rules their country, or a person attempting to fight back against a totalitarian leader and describes the way the country operates under that leader. Design a propaganda poster, similar to the V for Vendetta, Hitler, or Kim Jong Il examples we viewed in class, which promotes the leadership and rule of a fictional totalitarian leader. Posters can include printed-off images from the computer, or images can be drawn.

Group Project Form a group of 3 to 5 people (NO MORE THAN FIVE PEOPLE) and design a video (minimum 30 seconds) which features a totalitarian ruler or a totalitarian society Your video can take one of two forms… A piece of video propaganda produced by the ruler which shows him or her in a positive light AND shows the realities of a totalitarian society A news report which features a totalitarian society and emphasizes the relationship between the government and the people Or something else totally creative! Check with Mr. Osborne if you have an idea.

Questions to Remember… 1) How is your ruler a dynamic leader? Ex: they unite people, they symbolize government, they encourage popular support through force of will 2) How does the ruler control society? Ex: education, religion, the arts, business, labor, housing, etc. 3) How does the ruler enforce his or her control? Ex: police terror, indoctrination, censorship, persecution 4) How does the state (the ruler) control individuals? Ex: demands loyalty, denies basic liberties, expects personal sacrifice for the good of the country

Rubric 25Point Project 10 Points – Product Project accurately portrays a totalitarian leader and society 10 Points – Creativity Project goes above and beyond what is asked of him/her/them 5 Points – Preparation Students use time in class wisely in creating projects NOTE: Group Projects will have 5 POINTS for creativity and 5 POINTS for a PEER PARTICIPATION CHECK You will have the next three days to work on projects. We will watch all videos FRIDAY. Individual projects who present their propaganda signs will receive a few bonus points on their project.