Election Notebooking Pages - 3
Better late than never! Here’s installment number 3, focusing on campaign advertising.
Contents of this installment:
- “Political Advertising” section page
- “Production and Propaganda” info page 1
- Info page 2
- Campaign Ad Production Analysis Worksheet - page 1
- Worksheet page 2
- Worksheet page 3
- Instructions for propaganda pages
- Propaganda page 1
- Propaganda page 2
- Propaganda Booklet: Name Calling
- Propaganda Booklet: Glittering Generalities
- Propaganda Booklet: Transfer
- Propaganda Booklet: Testimonial
- Propaganda Booklet: Plain Folks
- Propaganda Booklet: Bandwagon
- Propaganda Booklet: Fear
- Propaganda Booklet: Faulty Logic
18-34. Black and White (B&W) versions of the above.
Links:
- The Washington Post has a Political Ads Database that includes ads from the current campaign
- The Living Room Candidate - Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004.
- The Thirty Second Candidate - Click “Tricks of the Trade” for an interesting demonstration of how video can be edited to convey different messages for campaign ads.
[*Note: Much of the information about propaganda on these pages is adapted from PropagandaCritic.com.]
Sorry, http://www.mphomeschool.com/election.pdf is giving me a 404 error. I’m looking forward to seeing what you’ve done though, should be interesting stuff!
Comment by Susy — February 8, 2008 @ 8:28 am
Oops. There was supposed to be a 3 in there. Thanks for catching that. When will my computer learn to read my mind and do what I MEANT instead of what I WROTE?
Comment by Mom — February 8, 2008 @ 8:45 am
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! This is just perfect!!! Wonderful job!!!!!!!! I cannot wait to teach this next week!!!
Comment by urbanbutterfly — February 9, 2008 @ 2:13 am
Wow, great stuff! You’ve done such a good job on these, thanks for sharing them!
Reminds me of this video, politicians can make ANYTHING go negative!
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-wh-campaign,0,2078891.flash
Comment by Susy — February 9, 2008 @ 8:12 am
Butterfly, glad you liked it!
Susy, great vid!
Comment by Mom — February 9, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
Wow! These are awesome, thanks. We’re trying to follow the election through Nov. for government. I’ll try and check back to see what else you’ve been doing! You’re awesome! Thanks.
Comment by gina — February 29, 2008 @ 2:41 pm
These are excellent — both in content and design
Thanks so much for freely sharing. We began an Elections unit study last week, using the Amanda Bennett Elections unit study as our “spine”… But I’m a creative cook when it comes to homeschooling and can’t resist adding a little here, a little there, and tweaking the recipe to our heart’s content. I will definitely be incorporating your great notebook pages. My 11yo will especially like the propaganda set; she’s very into analyzing media marketing these days. God bless — Susan
Comment by Susan — February 29, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Thank you so much for these pages! My children are actually enjoying using them!
Comment by Yavonn — March 21, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Great pages! I just linked this entry to my Elections Unit on my Web page. Please let me know if that is OK. If not, I will take it off. You can find it at this address, under week # 6. President Elections Unit
Cindy Downes
Comment by Cindy Downes — March 24, 2008 @ 5:42 am
Yavonn and Cindy,
I’m so glad you’re finding these useful! Thank you for letting me know you’re using them, it helps me feel like it was worth the time spent. Cindy, I am pleased that you included the pages in your unit study. Thanks for linking to the web site instead of just the pages. This is exactly what I’d prefer. No changes necessary.
Comment by Mom — March 24, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
Oh, this is terrific! Thank you for sharing. I’m preparing an elections unit for next fall.
Comment by K. Pluta — May 31, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
I’m a little late in finding this but thank you so much! This is perfect for my older kids to do right before the election.
Comment by Chocolate on my Cranium — October 30, 2008 @ 8:51 am
I found these a little late, but have still used them with my 9 year old. And I adopted some of the ideas for a lesson for my 5 year old. I looked everywhere for a good election notebook lesson and found nothing that even begins to compare! Thank you so much! I added additional lessons for tracking the electoral votes during the general election as well! It is so important that our children understand politics, and government. There are so many uneducated people voting in our elections. Look at this video of people that vote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmGzKv8mic
Comment by Heather — November 25, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
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