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

1. 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

2. 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)

3. 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

4. Joseph Stalin

6. Great Purge

7. Collective Farms

8. Collective Farms

9. 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.”

10. 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."

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.”

14. 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."

15. 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

16. Propaganda Poster Protocol • As a group select 2 posters to discuss and analyze. Roles • Scribe • Discussion Checklist

17. Let’s Practice • Fishbowl

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

19. “Thousands of hands voting YES!”

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

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

22. “Glory to the Worker – Peasant Red Army”

23. “Beloved Stalin - a fortune of the Nation”

24. “We know the friendship between Stalin and the weiners”