Download Propaganda 8/Reading Concept: Identifying and analyzing bias in

Topic:
Propaganda
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Grade/Subject Area:
8/Reading
Unit Essential Questions:
Unit Instructional Resources:
The 8 grade standards for this unit are exactly
the same as the 7th grade standards, EXCEPT
students must know snob appeal propaganda in
8th grade and not in 7th.
What strategies do I need to learn to
effectively analyze and recognize
propaganda?
Prentice Hall Literature, pages 512-524,
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Concept: Identifying and analyzing bias in
text
Concept: Identifying the purpose of a
medium
Concept: Identifying persuasive techniques
Pre-Assessment Strategy: Ask students to
write down the definition of bias.
Pre-Assessment Strategy: Have students think back
Pre-Assessment Strategy: Show several different
to the nonfiction unit where they studied the purposes of
literature. Generate a list of these purposes. Then, show
different media (photos, art pieces, film clips) and ask
students to identify the purpose of each example. Discuss.
commercials. In pairs, have students write down in their
own words why each commercial is supposed to work.
Then, ask them if they can give the proper name for each
persuasive technique used.
Vocabulary: bias
Vocabulary: media
Vocabulary: propaganda, bandwagon, loaded
words, testimonial, name-calling, plain folks,
snob appeal
Lesson Essential Question: What is bias?
How do you identify it in literature?
Lesson Essential Question: How do you
identify the purpose of a medium?
Lesson Essential Question: How do you
identify different persuasive techniques?
Assessment: As students to read several passages. Ask
them to write down if each one is biased or not and who it is
biased for/against. Then, have them pick one passage and
rewrite it either as unbiased or as biased for the opposing
side of the argument.
Assessment: Show several non-print media examples (a
Assessment: Have students draw a school rule and a
persuasive technique from a hat. Then, have them rewrite
that rule in the form of an advertisement written in the
technique they drew. Have other students read each as and
guess what technique was used.
Prior Knowledge:
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commercial, a print ad, a painting, a sitcom clip, etc.) and
ask them to write down the purpose of each example. Then,
ask them to support each answer in a sentence.