1. Propaganda Techniques Creating Propaganda Analyzing Propaganda
January 6-9
Propaganda Techniques
Creating Propaganda
Analyzing Propaganda

2. SSR: 20 minutes Make sure your material will last the full 20 minutes!
Tuesday
CCSS RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
SSR: 20 minutes
Fill this out daily AFTER we complete SSR! It will be counted as a grade and for a Special Activity at the end of the year!
Make sure your material will last the full 20 minutes!
Do not get out of your seat unless you are called up for a conference.
There is absolutely no talking during this.
When time is called, quickly and quietly fill out your reading log for today’s date!

3. Vocabulary Bias Propaganda P.o.S. noun
Explanation: Believing one side or one group is better than another. To see one as being better than the other.
Another way: favoring, favoritism
Propaganda
P.o.S. noun
Explanation: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person

4. IMPROVED!
NEW!
Propaganda!
A MUST
SEE!
Everybody is doing it!

5. What do these images have in common?
They are all used to influence you to do something.
They are all examples of propaganda!

6. WHAT?
A message used to persuade you to believe something or do something
Propaganda
WHY?
To persuade you to buy something, think something, or do something.
WHO?
Corporations
Government
Individuals
WHERE?
Commercials Packaging Speeches Stores Billboards Internet Newspapers Everywhere!
HOW?
There are 7 propaganda techniques we will learn

7. The 1st type of Propaganda is…
Bandwagon
Persuading people to do something by letting them know others are doing it.
All the
cool kids
are doing it
Everybody
has one!

8. Bandwagon works because it makes you think “everyone is doing it” and you should too.
Why is this sign considered BANDWAGON?

9. What other examples of BANDWAGON can you think of?
From today:
From World War I:

10. The 2nd type of Propaganda is…
Loaded Words
Love
Hate
Using words that will make people feel strongly about someone or something.

11. Loaded words work because they make you feel a certain way.
What words are used in these ads that make us feel a certain way?

12. What are some other examples of LOADED WORD propaganda?

13. The 3rd type of Propaganda is…
Testimonial
Using words and images of a famous person or an expert to persuade.

14. Testimonials work because you feel like you can trust the words of an expert or someone famous.

15. What are some other examples of TESTIMONIAL propaganda?
From today:
From the 1950s:

16. The 4th type of Propaganda is…
Name-Calling
Links a person, idea, or product to a negative symbol.

17. Why do you think we see this technique used so often in politics?
Name-calling works because if we believe the competition is bad, we can assume this product will be the best choice.
Why do you think we see this technique used so often in politics?

18. What are some other examples of NAME-CALLING propaganda?.
notice the name-calling is inferred, we are assuming that PC is a bad product, making MAC better.

19. The 7th type of Propaganda is…
Fear
Plays on our deep-seated fears and warns the audience that disaster will strike if we do not follow the instructions.

20. Fear works because we want to keep ourselves and our family safe.

21. What are some other examples of FEAR propaganda?
This site has several Political Campaign commercials from history using both fear and name-calling propaganda.

22. What Were Those Techniques, Again?
Bandwagon
Loaded Words
Testimonial
Name-Calling
Fear

23. Exit Slip
How does your knowledge of persuasive writing help you understand the dangers of propaganda?
(Write three to four sentences on a half sheet of paper and turn in.)

24. SSR: 20 minutes Make sure your material will last the full 20 minutes!
Wednesday
CCSS RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
SSR: 20 minutes
Fill this out daily AFTER we complete SSR! It will be counted as a grade and for a Special Activity at the end of the year!
Make sure your material will last the full 20 minutes!
Do not get out of your seat unless you are called up for a conference.
There is absolutely no talking during this.
When time is called, quickly and quietly fill out your reading log for today’s date!

25. Vocabulary Non-print medium P.o.S. noun Breaking the phrase down:
Non-print: not a text, usually a picture or graphic representation.
Medium: a source or form of communication, like a newspaper, magazine, picture, TV
Reliability
P.o.S. noun
Explanation: the quality or state of being reliable.
Synonyms:
Dependability
Trustworthy
sureness

26. Review of Propaganda Techniques
TCAP Workbook p
Please do this on a clean sheet of paper.

27. Sources Reliability: Notes sheet on reliability.
What makes something reliable?

28. Practice: TCAP Workbook p. 119-120.
Please do this on a separate sheet of paper.
Justify each answer with one sentence on why each text is reliable or not. Do NOT just say, “This text is reliable.” Tell my WHY.

29. SSR: 20 minutes Make sure your material will last the full 20 minutes!
Thursday
CCSS RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
SSR: 20 minutes
Fill this out daily AFTER we complete SSR! It will be counted as a grade and for a Special Activity at the end of the year!
Make sure your material will last the full 20 minutes!
Do not get out of your seat unless you are called up for a conference.
There is absolutely no talking during this.
When time is called, quickly and quietly fill out your reading log for today’s date!

30. SSR: 20 minutes Make sure your material will last the full 20 minutes!
Friday
CCSS RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
SSR: 20 minutes
Fill this out daily AFTER we complete SSR! It will be counted as a grade and for a Special Activity at the end of the year!
Make sure your material will last the full 20 minutes!
Do not get out of your seat unless you are called up for a conference.
There is absolutely no talking during this.
When time is called, quickly and quietly fill out your reading log for today’s date!