The flag of Vietnam (a communist country), flying on a boat in Ha Long Bay. Notice the red and the star as symbols! Photo taken in 2011.
Hi everyone,
Today, we looked more into the concept of propaganda and persuasion. Here's what happened in class:
Learning Targets:
Critical Thinking LT 1: I can explain multiple perspectives and viewpoints.
Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
Soundtrack: "Mother Russia" by Renaissance. Selected for today because of our continued look at the Russian Revolution! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 3/14/17:
News Brief - Paris
Quiz
Propaganda
Create Posters
Propaganda
Create Posters
Homework: Read the blog! Finish propaganda poster (due next class). Ashwin has the next news brief.
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News Brief: The news brief article for today was brought in by Paris, who selected this article to talk about: BBC.com - Google balloon mistaken for UFO as it crashes in Colombia. We found Colombia in the world map packet and noted we did a story on the country, as we talked about what Google (and companies like Facebook) are doing to try and bring internet to places in the world that do not have many connections.
Ashwin, you are up for next class.
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Finally, I passed back graded World War I essays to the class. Your grades have been updated in StudentVUE. No excuses for you to not know exactly what you need to do - especially with the World War I packets!
Quiz: After the news brief, we took the Russian Revolution vocabulary quiz. I'm not going to recap the quiz itself, other than to say that I hope everyone did well. If you were following along during the presentation and did your homework to review, I'm sure you were fine.
Ashwin, you are up for next class.
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Finally, I passed back graded World War I essays to the class. Your grades have been updated in StudentVUE. No excuses for you to not know exactly what you need to do - especially with the World War I packets!
Quiz: After the news brief, we took the Russian Revolution vocabulary quiz. I'm not going to recap the quiz itself, other than to say that I hope everyone did well. If you were following along during the presentation and did your homework to review, I'm sure you were fine.
Propaganda: The next part of class was devoted to checking out some examples of Soviet Union propaganda (it is nice that you already knew what propaganda meant from studying Rwanda) and filling out a worksheet with each slide, then creating your own example on the back.
Here is the worksheet that goes along with the presentation:
After viewing all of the slides and filling out the worksheet, I gave the class this assignment:
On the back side of this propaganda poster worksheet, you
are creating your OWN Russian propaganda poster. Please use at least two symbols (a color can be a
symbol) and make a connection to at least
one of the vocabulary words from the Russian Revolution PowerPoint. You do
not have to use Russian. Use an English caption to explain your poster, please.
Create Posters: The rest of class was devoted to creating the Russian Revolution propaganda posters, to emphasize the connection between persuasion and the revolution. These will be due at the start of next class.
See you next class, everyone!
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