Download Propaganda in World War One

Today- Take notes
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What is Propaganda?
You should know 7 techniques to creating
effective propaganda.-NOTES!
Analyze propaganda.
 Tomorrow:
You will analyze propaganda and
begin creating your own propaganda poster.
20 points
Schedule
• Day 1: Wednesday
▫ Intro to project
▫ ½ Work Day
▫ Begin Research (any research not
completed in class shall be
completed as homework)
• Day 2: Thursday
▫ Work Day
▫ Research Checked in (5 points)
▫ Begin Powerpoints
• Day 3: Friday
▫ Propaganda activity (10
points)
▫ ½ Work Day
• Day 4: Monday
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½ Work day
Practice presentations
One laptop per group
Begin Presentations
• Day 5: Tuesday
▫ Presentations
• Day 6 : Wednesday
▫ Presentations if necessary
▫ Propaganda Notes
• Thursday
▫ Propaganda Poster
▫ Bring your Books
Scoring Guide:
Note if a member of your group
does not carry their weight, they will lose the points
Work Days
Research
Sheets
Group
Presentation
Notes
Powerpoint
Slides (23each)
Presentation
5 points
5 points
5 points
20 points
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Propaganda in WWI
The birth of modern Psychological
Operations
Institute for Propaganda Analysis 1938
What is Propaganda?
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Propaganda is a message
aimed at influencing an
opinion. Spread an opinion.
One of the methods used in
Psy Ops.
Why do we use Propaganda?
 Each
of the nations in WWI
used propaganda.
 They used posters to:
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5.
justify their involvement to
their own people.
To recruit men into the Armed
forces
To raise money and resources
To urge conservation of
resources.
Demoralize the enemy.
Why Posters?
 Television
had not
yet been invented
 Not everyone
owned or had
access to a radio
 Mass printing made
it very efficient.
Propaganda uses Seven Techniques
to get their message across
1. Name
Calling:
hanging a bad
label on an
idea,
symbolized by a
hand turning
thumbs down;
2. Card Stacking
Most of the
information presented
is true, but key facts
are left out.
What key facts do you
think are left off this
propaganda?
3. Testimonial
 .Associates
a
respected person or
someone with
experience to endorse
a cause by giving it
their stamp of
approval.
4. Plain Folks
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Attempts to convince
the audience that the
spokesperson is from
humble origins,
someone they can trust
and who has their
interests at heart.
Sometimes uses accents
or dialect of the intended
audience.
5. Transfer
 Transfers
authority of
something we respect
and revere to something
the author would have
us accept.
 Propagandists
often
employ symbols (e.g.,
waving the flag) to stir
our emotions and win
our approval.
6. Glittering Generality
 Broad
statements (often
slogans or simple
catchphrases) using
language associated with
values and beliefs deeply
held by the audience.
 They
appeal to such
notions as honor, glory,
love of country, desire for
peace, freedom, and
family values.
7. Band Wagon
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Creates the impression that
everybody is doing it, you
should too!
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It reinforces the human
desire to be on the winning
side.
Tomorrow
 Bring
Ideas for your
poster
 You will analyze
propaganda
 Begin your poster
 Due Monday!
A
persuasive "headline"
 At least one original
graphic that will serve
to help convince the
viewer to favor the
treaty and the League.
 Some sort of statement
that the viewer can
read to help convince
him/her of the author's
view.
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 The
poster should be
written in a style and
format that would
convince the viewer
that it was created in
the country that the
students "represent"
(Britain, France,
Germany, or the United
States.
Select one of the following
 Peace
 enlistment
and
recruitment
 financing the war
 the role of women
 Food Administration
 Justifying the war
 Fuel
Administration
 War Industries Board
 Committee on Public
Information
 aiding our allies
Today
 Stand
by a poster
 We will