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Exploring Personal Perspectives in Propaganda: Enhancing Student Connections

This project aims to foster deeper connections and personal perspectives in students' writing by encouraging critical thinking and creativity. Utilizing culturally diverse texts and tailored reading strategies, students in grades 6-8 will reflect on real-world issues through an inquiry-based approach. By prompting discussions around visual media and their messages, learners will engage with their experiences and develop comprehensive reflections. The goal is to enhance their ability to write meaningfully about topics that resonate with them.

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Exploring Personal Perspectives in Propaganda: Enhancing Student Connections

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  1. What do you see?

  2. Digging Deeper: Applying Personal Perspective to Propaganda The task is… not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. ~Erwin Schrodinger

  3. “We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.” ~B.W. Powe, Towards a Canada of Light

  4. Context • My classroom: • Group make-up varies 6th, 7th & 8thgrade students • Class sizes: range from 1 to 12 students • Consistency: Students scheduled whole year & quarterly • Program: Miscue analysis/Reading diagnostics, culturally diverse texts that span 5th-9th in text complexity (scaffold polysyllabic & domain specific texts, Vocabulary Immersion , Phonemic training/Alphabetic Principle, Comprehension strategies, task reflections & constructed long & short responses) • Frustrations: • Lack of depth in students’ personal connections in written work • Lack of personal perspectivesin relation to real world issues • Project Purpose: To encourage discussion, critical thinking and the creative application of taught reading and writing strategies in designing an End of Year personal commercial/Ad

  5. Inquiry Question:How can I support deeperconnections and personal perspective in student writing?

  6. What do you SEE? Real Beauty • What resonated with you as you watched this video? • What message did you receive from it and why?

  7. Reflection • What was this experience like for you? • How did you connect with this video?

  8. Viewing Student Work 1

  9. Viewing Student Work 2

  10. Reflection • What did you notice in the student work? • How do I support greater depth and personal connection in writing?

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