Recognize examples of persuasive devices (e.g., bandwagon, loaded terms, testimonial, name-calling). 0501.5.5

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1. Affluenza: A PBS Program - Lessons such as "Be an Adbuster!" and "What are Advertisers Selling?" are based on Affluenza, a one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and over consumption. The lessons can be used without the video.
2. Analyzing Political Ads - Students will view current political ads and learn how they make use of various commercial ad appeals. Students will also develop familiarity with basic videography terms. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
3. Book Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor - spur that character to try to persuade the audience of other characters in the novel to take a specific action or change their position on an issue
4. Common Persuasive Techniques - chart with definitions and examples [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
5. Delivering a Persuasive Speech - Lesson plan, tips and tricks; how they say something and how they physically present themselves are just as important as what they say. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Examples of Persuasive Techniques & Terms - Quia Quiz
7. Loaded Words - Propaganda - persuasive techniques [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
8. Persuasive Arguments - lesson plan - Each group member is given an argument and presents it to group members to discuss and generate ideas for persuasion. Students then independently write argument, defending their position.
9. Persuasive Techniques - key persuasive techniques with explanations [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
10. Propaganda - testimonials.
11. Propaganda and debate techniques - examples and discussions of various techniques.
12. Reading the Fine Print - In this lesson you will: read the fine print in different advertisements, analyze the fine print to see if the deal is worth it and, do the math to figure out the real cost of an “amazing” offer
13. Top 20 Logical Fallacies - definitions and explanations
14. Truth in Advertising - In this lesson you will: read and identify various types of advertisements, analyze advertisements for examples of persuasive writing, generalizing, exaggeration, and scare tactics, and write responses to ads that you’ve analyzed.

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