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. 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 - Juan

Quiz
Propaganda
Create Posters

Homework: Read the blog! Finish propaganda poster (due next class). Elena has the next news brief.

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News Brief: The news brief article for today was brought in by Juan, who selected this article to talk about: BBC.com - Venezuela threatens to take over bakeries that break rules. We found Venezuela in the world map packet and noted we did a story on the country, as we talked about the continuing crisis with the government there, and how inflation (money being worth less and less) is impacting the economy and the people.

Elena, 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):

BBCNews.com - One-minute World News

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 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 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!