Revolution! Day 4 - Class Recap

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 (matching up well with what you are doing in Mr. Lathrop's class). Here's what happened in class:

Learning Targets:
Critical Thinking LT 1: I can explain multiple perspectives and viewpoints.

Knowledge LT 20: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.

Soundtrack: "Say It Right" by Nelly Furtado. Selected for today because of the quiz in class, and being able to write the correct answers! Lyrics here.

AGENDA 3/6/15:

News Brief - Xavier

OPVL/Quiz
Propaganda
Create Posters

Homework: Read the blog! Finish propaganda poster (due next class). Revise and resubmit any missing or incomplete World War I work. Joyce has the next news brief.

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News Brief: The news brief article for today was brought in by Xavier, who selected this article to talk about: CNN.com - ISIS bulldozes ruins of ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, Iraqi ministry says. Yet another example of an awful event involving ISIS. History is so important! Destroying it is not a good look.

Joyce, you are up for next class.

We also watched VICE News today (which related to International Women's Day!) before moving on.

OPVL/Quiz: After the news brief, we looked at the OPVL activity from last class. This needs to be done for next class, when you are turning in your Russian Revolution work! Your updated grades are posted by student ID number on the board. No excuses for you to not know exactly what you need to do - especially with the World War I packets!

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 from Mr. Lathrop's class about persuasion) and filling out a worksheet with each slide, then creating your own example on the back. To introduce this section, I played this video from my mom's last campaign:

   

My mom rocks. :-)

Here is the presentation on Russian Revolution propaganda, if you missed class, or need to complete your worksheet:

Google Drive: Soviet Union Propaganda PowerPoint

Here is the worksheet that goes along with the presentation:

Google Drive: Soviet Union Propaganda Worksheet

After viewing all of the slides and filling out the worksheet, I gave the class this assignment: 

On the back side of the propaganda poster worksheet, you are creating your OWN Russian poster. Please use at least two symbols. Try to connect to at least one of the vocabulary words. You do not have to use Russian. Use a English caption, 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.

Have a great weekend!