March 12

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting ( And so the adventure began….)
• Continue working on research reports
• Propaganda:  Depending on time, try writing a piece of propaganda or find a piece of propaganda to share with the class.
• What is propaganda?  Simply, it is an unfair argument.  The writer (artist, director, creator) is attempting to sway their audience through ONLY an emotional response or by using faulty evidence.  Propaganda is not a measure of the validity of an argument; it can support a position which is either true or false.
• Here’s an example of propaganda based on emotional response:  “Scrap Happy Daffy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIlLEcjxv7w
• Here’s an example of propaganda based on faulty (in this case intentionally false) information:  “Hitler Gives the Jews a City” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgbvcKRvbFo  

                                                    (While the first video (film at the time) supported a cause we would likely agree with and the second one we would absolutely not, because of the style both would be classified as propaganda.)