FQ: How did Stalin gain power and use propaganda to control Russia?

Do Now • (5 min): First Read: Key

Ideas and Details (Individual)

Agenda • (5 min)-Do Now• (15 min)-Notes: Stalin &

Russia• (30 min)-Class Activity:

Analyze Stalin Propaganda

• (10 min)- Share Out

Review: Reading A Text• Have a highlighter or pencil ready to circle or

highlight (main ideas, voc words, important information)

• First Read: Key Ideas and Details (Individual)• Second Read: Reread a select section- author’s craft

and structure (Pair)• Third Read: Record Information- integration of

knowledge and ideas (Class)

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Reading: Stalin

• (5 min): First Read: Key Ideas and Details (Individual)– Highlight any important information

• (5 min): Second Read: Reread a select section- author’s craft and structure (Pair)– With a partner at a table answer the questions together

• (5 min): Third Read: Record Information- integration of knowledge and ideas (Class)– Reread as a class- Answer the questions together

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Joseph Stalin

Great Purge

Collective Farms

Collective Farms

Propaganda- ideas or information spread to promote or influence the nation to support or join a certain cause.

• 1. Name Calling. Bad names are the most prolific forms of propaganda, especially when you are trying to diminish an opponent as "liberal" or "most liberal" or "ultra-conservative" or "extremist" or "hypocritical.”

Propaganda- ideas or information spread to promote or influence the nation to support or join a certain cause.

2. Glittering Generalities. This device requires "virtue words" that describe ideals that no one could argue against, a strategy often referred to as "motherhood and apple pie."

Propaganda- ideas or information spread to promote or influence the nation to support or join a certain cause.

3. The Transfer. Used both for and against causes, this strategy transfers the authority or status of one person or institution onto another.

Propaganda- ideas or information spread to promote or influence the nation to support or join a certain cause.

4. The Testimonial. In politics these are often called "endorsements." These come not just from politicians, but from celebrities –- athletes and entertainers –- who shed their blessings on a candidate or a cause.

Propaganda- ideas or information spread to promote or influence the nation to support or join a certain cause.

5. Plain Folks. Crucial in political propaganda, the supporter of a candidate or a cause must persuade the audience that the chosen one, no matter how wealthy, is a man of the people, or a loving mother, or the kind of person you'd want to share a beer with. Look for homey words like "town," "village," "farm," "diner," "bar," "train," "folks," "coal mine," "kitchen table.”

Propaganda- ideas or information spread to promote or influence the nation to support or join a certain cause.

• 6. The Band Wagon. This is the "everyone is doing it" technique. Look for words like "journey" and "battle" and "movement" and "march" and "mandate for change."

Propaganda Poster Protocol

• 10 min- Discuss Class poster

• 2 min- Select a poster & examine the poster (Individually)

• 6 min- As a group discuss and answer the questions

• 2 min- reflect on the discussion

Propaganda Poster Protocol

• As a group select 2 posters to discuss and analyze.

Roles• Scribe• Discussion Checklist

Let’s Practice

• Fishbowl

“Stalin’s care brightens the future of our children”

“Thousands of hands voting YES!”

“We’ll raise a generation selflessly loyal to communism”

Stalin is holding PRAVDA (The Truth) - main communist newspaper

“Glory to the Worker – Peasant Red Army”

“Beloved Stalin - a fortune of the Nation”

“We know the friendship between Stalin and the weiners”