ELA Tech - Persuasion & Propaganda

Guiding Questions:

How do ideas get into my head? Am I in charge of them, or is someone else?
How can I communicate my ideas to change my life and the world?
What are the techniques of persuasion and propaganda - or mind control?

May 27th -- Finish your posters!

May 20th - Making our own Posters - Part 3

1. I can use my concept plan to create my poster.

2. I can use Word to insert silhouette jpg file and text boxes to complete my poster.

May 13, 2009 - Making our own Posters - Part 2

Learning targets:

1. I can make a concept plan for my poster (issue, itext, silhouette image, statistics at bottom)

2. I can create a silhouette image for my poster using Seashore.

Activity: in Word, make a concept plan based on the example Vicki and Blaine show. Save as Poster Concept Plan. Then find an image and turn it into a silhouette in Seashore. Save.

May 6, 2009 - Making our own Posters

Analyze iRaq poster

Go over requirements to make your own

Learn to make a silhouette in Seashore. Use the following link for photos:

http://www.hrw.org/legacy/photos/2005/uganda/

April 29, 2009 - Powerful Ideas

While some of you are at the PEN workshop, we will be watching two videos to build knowledge we might use when we create our own persuasive posters. Click on the links below to view; each video is about 20 minutes long.

Majora Carter at TED Conference:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/majora_carter_s_tale_of_urban_renewal.html

The Story of Stuff:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

April 22, 2009 - Posters

1. Go to this link and answer questions based on the image projected on the screen:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/gform?key=piyBBgxy_-Nlyit38dZeNUQ&hl=en#edit

2. When the next image is projected, go to the following link to answer questions about it:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cGl5QkJneHlfLU5rN2ZjODFZQ1FrUUE6MA..

March 18, 2009 -- Writing Your Own Speech - You will be outlining a one-minute persuasive speech today. You will identify your thesis statement, or the position you are taking. You will identify one argument each for pathos, logos, and ethos. Here is an example:

Position: Teens should not be able to get drivers licenses until they are 18.

Pathos argument:
So many teens die in car crashes, their parents and friends weeping over their broken bodies. If pushing up the age limit would save a teen's life, isn't it worth it?

Logos argument:
Teens are in the highest risk category when it comes to vehicle crashes, chiefly due to inexperience behind the wheel but also several other factors. The incidence of crash involvements per 1,000 people is almost double for teenagers over that for other age groups.

Ethos:
As a parent of a teen -- and a former teen myself -- I know it's an important privilege and teens need additional freedoms and responsibilities as they get older. But at the same time, safety and saving lives has to be more important than freedom, doesn't it?

Enter your thesis and argments into this form:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cGl5QkJneHlfLU5scDg0X0Q2N1pGUXc6MA..

March 11, 2009 -- Analyzing Speeches and Writing - RFK and Student work

Use the following link to answer questions about RFK's speech and the pieces of student work you will receive in class:

RFK's speech and text:

www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rfkonmlkdeath.html

Assessment:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cGl5QkJneHlfLU5tUmt2WFdFMS1lWWc6MA..

March 4, 2009 -- Ethos, Logos and Pathos - Part 3

Review the readings and, if necessary, the video about Ari and his mom (all links below). You will be asked to explain the differences among ethos, pathos and logos as persuasive techniques in the assessment.

Listen to the Obama speech from last week (scroll down to the link from last week) and the speech below from Mother Teresa. You will need to answer questions about them in the assessment.

Mother Teresa:

hypermedia.educ.psu.edu/k-12/units/persuasion/MotherTeresa.Mov

Text of Mother Teresa's speech:

People ask me, "Where is that hunger in our country? Where is that nakedness in our country? Where is that homelessness in our country?" Yes, there is hunger. Maybe not the hunger for a piece of bread, but here is a terrible hunger for life. We all experience that in our life, the pain, the loneliness. One must have the courage to recognize the poor you may have right in your own family and then love them, put your love for them in your living actions, for in loving them, you are loving God himself. God bless you.

Now click on this link to do the assessment:

spreadsheets.google.com/viewform

February 25, 2009 -- Ethos, Logos and Pathos - Part 2

Begin by watching this video again:

www.teachertube.com/v.php

Read one of these two short readings and be ready to discuss the differences between ethos, pathos & logos:

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group4/

courses.durhamtech.edu/perkins/aris.html

Next we listened to part of a speech by Barack Obama and analyzed a quote from the speech: is he using ethos, pathos or logos? The speech is here: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php

Now take the following assessment based on that speech:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/gform?key=piyBBgxy_-NmHBsuVhnzUCg&hl=en#

Learning Targets:

I can explain the differences among the persuasive techniques ethos, logos and pathos.
I can analyze the language of a speech and determine which technique is being used.

February 11, 2009 -- Ethos, Logos and Pathos

As we continue learning about persuasion and propaganda, we watched this video about Ethos, Logos and Pathos:

www.teachertube.com/v.php

Then we categorized the types of commercials from www.livingroomcandidate.org as to whether they were based on Ethos, Logos or Pathos.

Use this form to take the assessment:

spreadsheets.google.com/viewform

Learning Targets:

I can explain the differences among the persuasive techniques ethos, logos and pathos.
I can categorize types of campaign ads as to whether they are ethos, logos or pathos ads.