10/27 A//B 10/28 E/F Media Literacy: Advertisements

Whenever you need help, please ask for it.

Please write your homework in your assignment book.
Please review the goal and agenda for the day (posted in the classroom).

Today in class you will 

• reflect on your understandings.
• clarify what the Electoral College is and how it works.

Why?

• To synthesize information.
• To better understand how our democracy works

1.  Discuss with someone near you what you will be doing in class today and why (see above).   1 minute

2.  Make a copy of the document linked here.            5 minutes

• Click the folder next to the document name to move to the social studies folder in the Classroom folder.
• Then make four additional copies using FILE- Make a Copy.
• Read through the document and be ready to ask questions about it.

3. We will watch a video together and complete one Doc together.           7 minutes

4.  With a person at your group, watch a video, discuss the characteristics, and then complete the two questions by yourself.  Repeat for the next three advertisements.  (Access the videos linked here.)           30 minutes

5.  Class discussion        10 minutes

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Parents: Instead of Asking Your Child, 
"What Did You Do in School Today?"

Ask them.......

• How do presidential candidates use advertisements to convince citizens to vote for them?