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Andrew Garnett-Cook Heath School – Brookline Grade Level: Middle – High School Boston Massacre Lesson #1: Techniques of Propaganda Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks: USI.4 Analyze how Americans resisted British policies before 1775 and analyze the rea sons for the American victory and the British defeat during the Revolutionary war. (H) USI.5 Explain the role of Massachusetts in the Revolution, including important events that took place in Massachusetts and important leaders from Massachusetts. (H) A. the Boston Massacre B. the Boston Tea Party C. the Battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill D. Sam Adams, John Adams, and John Hancock Duration: One Hour Description: This lesson will focus around learning about techniques of propaganda and how to identify them in various media. Students will be given propaganda posters from history and will be asked to identify specific techniques in each. Goals: 1) Students will be understand how techniques of propaganda work 2) Students will understand how propaganda shapes people’s attitudes and beliefs Objectives: 1) By looking at examples, students will be able to identify and explain specific techniques of propaganda Activity: 1) Activator: a. Build a whole class working definition of propaganda. It often helps to begin by seeing what students already know about propaganda. With the class, build a definition. The definition I usually give to kids is “Biased or misleading information indented to generate support for cause or idea”. 2) Whole class Discussion: Techniques of Propaganda a. Hand out the “Techniques of Propaganda” sheet b. Take a couple of minutes to go through each one and explain their meaning. c. You might want to ask students to think about examples they can think of. 3) “Morning in America” Activity: a. Split class into groups of two or three b. Play the 1984 Reagan campaign ad “Morning in America” c. As students watch, have them write down particular parts of the video, either visuals or words, that they see as examples of techniques of propaganda d. When the video finishes, have kids share the examples they came up with and why they chose them. e. Each group reports one example back to the whole class 4) “Crop it” Activity: a. Before class, i. Make packets of World War II propaganda poster handouts ii. Prepare one set of “crop it tools” (two pieces of paper cut in an “L” shape for each student) b. Hand out a pack of three WWII posters and a set of “crop it” tools to each student c. For each poster, ask students, using the crop it tools, to isolate one part of the poster they think shows a particular technique of propaganda. i. The Focus questions for each image should be as follows: 1. Crop to one part of the image that shows eye catching visuals. Think: Why is this eye catching? 2. Crop to one part of the image that shows an appeal to patriotism. Think: How does this part of the image reflect patriotism? 3. Crop to one part of the image that appeals to fear. Think: Why do you think they use fear to encourage support? 4. Crop to one part of the image that has a catchy slogan. Think: Is the slogan effective? Why or why not? d. Reflective Writing: i. Have students decide which of the posters they think is the most effective example of propaganda. Using at least two details from the poster you chose, explain why 5) Homework assignment: a. Read Captain Preston’s account of the Boston Massacre and answer the questions