Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze persuasive tools in headlines, slogans, images, and quotes from the Cultural Revolution and modern media to determine when a message informs, persuades, or controls thinking.
Students will be able to compare primary and secondary sources about the Cultural Revolution and Red Scarf Girl to explain how source type changes meaning, purpose, and reliability.
Students will be able to investigate how propaganda in the Chinese Communist Party shaped daily life during the Cultural Revolution by gathering and annotating evidence from multiple media sources.
Students will be able to justify claims about whether a source is information, persuasion, or control using specific evidence from texts, images, and multimedia clips.
Students will be able to evaluate their own and peers' source analyses and revise judgments based on feedback and new evidence.
Products
Propaganda Clue Hunter Research Notebook
Each student will keep a research notebook that documents question development, source notes, annotations, comparisons, and personal analysis of whether media informs, persuades, or controls thinking. The notebook shows how the student's thinking changed across the investigation and includes cited evidence from Red Scarf Girl and other sources.
Clue Hunter Gallery Walk Investigation Board and Oral Defense
Teams will create a gallery walk board that synthesizes individual evidence into a shared investigation of propaganda during the Cultural Revolution and in modern media. The board and brief oral defense must explain methods, compare sources, highlight conflicting findings, and present defensible conclusions with citations.
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