English 10--10/25/2019 & 10/28/2019

Jump Off (2-3 mins.)
--Please... 

• pick up a copy of the "Propaganda/Some Types of Propaganda--Simplified Notes for Review" halfsheet from the front table
• sit in your new assigned seat again
• take out your copy of the "Propaganda/Some Types of Propaganda" document from last class block and staple the halfsheet to the front when the stapler gets to you.

S. the C. (5-8 mins.)
--agenda/HW

• The Key Question that Drives the Activity We Are Finishing: How might recognizing and understanding different types of propaganda impact important decisions that you make in the future?

Application Activity -- Propaganda Review, Recognizing Propaganda in Our Lives, and Recognizing Propaganda in Literature (35-40 mins.)

--briefly review the six types of propaganda via the simplified notes both on the halfsheet and written on the whiteboard
--oral reading of the excerpt included below from page 25 of Animal Farm in order to A.) review Chapter 4 and B.) answer the following question/follow-up questions:

• What propaganda technique(s) is/are being used by Squealer?  How so?

"Comrades!"  he cried.  "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?  Many of us actually dislike milk and apples.  I dislike them myself.  Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.  Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig.  We pigs are brainworkers.  The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us.  Day and night we are watching over your welfare.  It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.  Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?  Jones would come back!  Yes, Jones would come back!  Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"

--pair/share
--whole-class share-out
--oral reading of the excerpt included below from page 27 of Animal Farm in order to A.) review Chapter 4 and B.) answer the following question/follow-up questions:

• What propaganda technique(s) is/are being used by Mr. Frederick and Mr. Pilkington?

[Mr. Frederick and Mr. Pilkington] put it about that the animals on the Manor Farm (they insisted on calling it the Manor Farm; they would not tolerate the name "Animal Farm") were perpetually fighting among themselves and were also rapidly starving to death.  When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkington changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm.  It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common.

--oral reading of the excerpt included below from pages 33 and 34 of George Orwell's Animal Farm in order to A.) preview Chapter 5 and B.) answer the following question/follow-up questions:

• What propaganda technique(s) is/are being used by Napoleon?  How so?

At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times...Of late the sheep had taken to bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad" both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this.  It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into "Four legs good, two legs bad" at crucial moments in Snowball's speeches."    

--pair/shares
--whole-class share-outs
--view each example in PowerPoint in order to answer the following question/follow-up questions:

• What propaganda technique(s) is/are being used?  How so?

--pair/shares

--whole-class share-outs

Activity Closure -- Propaganda--So What?! (3-5 mins.)
--(re-)consider the following question in your head:

• How might recognizing and understanding different types of propaganda impact important decisions that you make in the future?

--share information from index cards in response to the key question:

I will...

• ask myself if the propaganda is good or bad
• THINK so that I am not manipulated, made a fool of, etc. by bad propaganda
• ignore anything that seems like bad propaganda
• do research and apply reasoning before _____ so that I make better decisions
• voting for a political candidate, buying a product, further spreading "news," etc. 

--share the following quotations:

"Propaganda becomes ineffective the moment we are aware of it."--Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945)

"If consumers are aware that they are being propagandized, the choice to accept or reject the message is theirs alone."--Jowett and O'Donnell in Propaganda and Persuasion (originally published in 1986)


--answer the following questions:

• How does one actually stop and research, reason, and THINK, especially in the fast-paced, information-heavy times in which we currently live?
• Why do some (many? most?!) people not do what the "I will..." list above recommends?
• What are human beings really like?
• What does George Orwell seem to think human beings are really like?
• Consider this excerpt from page 25 of Animal Farm:
• Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back.  When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.  The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious.  So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs along.
• And this one from pages 26 and 27:
• Nevertheless, [Mr. Frederick and Mr. Pilkington] were both thoroughly frightened by the rebellion on Animal Farm, and very anxious to prevent their own animals from learning too much about it.
• And, lastly, this one from page 33:
• He was especially successful with the sheep.  

--pair/shares
--whole-class share-outs

DEAR/Conferencing/Teambuilding (Artifact Bags) (remainder of the block)
--engage in free reading until the class block ends--enjoy!

• FYI: I will be around to talk to some of you about your free reading book.  For example, I might ask you the following questions: Who is/are the protagonist(s) in your book?  What motivates him/her/them?

--2 BDF/4 BDF: Artifact Bags

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--Complete Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses (approximately 45 minutes) over three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday (10/31).  Make sure to attend "Membean Monday" as per policy if you did not meet the requirements last week.  (See the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
HW (Class Preparation)

--Please read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  You have up until early December to finish your book.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
Miscellaneous
--Block 1 ACE: Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)

On the backburner:

• Block 2 BDF: Finish Sophia's bag and do last bag
• Block 4 BDF: Continue bags
• Process through Chs. 3 & 4 of Animal Farm
• "Free Reading Course Component--Overview Document"
• Adding to "Interest Inventory"--selecting an initial research topic
• Writing an initial claim for the essential question(s) and posting on the greenboard