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Unit 2: Power, Propaganda & the Art of Persuasion
Unit 2: Power, Propaganda & the Art of Persuasion
California CCSS: Focus Standards
SL.8.1.c
SL.8.2
RI.8.6
RL.8.2
RL.8.3
SL.8.1.d
L.8.4.b
RL.8.1
RL.8.4
RL.8.6
W.8.2.a
W.8.2.b
W.8.2.f
W.8.4
W.8.5
W.8.9.a
SL.8.1.a
SL.8.1.b
SL.8.4
L.8.4.a
L.8.5.b
RI.8.1
RI.8.2
L.8.1.b
L.8.1.d
W.8.2.c
W.8.9.b
W.8.1.a
W.8.1.b
W.8.1.e
W.8.6
W.8.7
W.8.8
W.8.1.c
RI.8.3
SL.8.3
SL.8.6
L.8.5.a
RL.8.7
L.8.2.c
L.8.4.c
L.8.4.d
RI.8.4
RI.8.8
L.8.6
W.8.1.d
L.8.2.a
L.8.2.b
W.8.10
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ELD Standards
ELD.PI.8.1
ELD.PI.8.6
ELD.PI.8.7
ELD.PI.8.3
ELD.PI.8.10a.Em
ELD.PI.8.10a.Ex
ELD.PI.8.10a.Br
ELD.PI.8.8
ELD.PI.8.11a.Em
ELD.PI.8.11a.Ex
ELD.PI.8.11a.Br
ELD.PI.8.6a.Em
ELD.PI.8.6a.Ex
ELD.PI.8.6a.Br
ELD.PI.8.12a.Em
ELD.PI.8.12a.Ex
ELD.PI.8.12a.Br
ELD.PII.8.6
ELD.PI.8.9
ELD.PII.8.1
ELD.PII.8.3
ELD.PII.8.5
ELD.PII.8.4
ELD.PI.8.10
ELD.PI.8.11
ELD.PI.8.5
ELD.PI.8.4
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Lessons
Overview
Lessons
Assessments
Additional Resources
All Lessons
(45 total)
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Lesson 1: Building Background Knowledge: Conditions for Revolution
Spark
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 2: Building Background Knowledge: Propaganda in Action
Spark
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 3: Building Background Knowledge: Allegory and Symbolism
Spark
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 4: Animal Farm: Chapter I
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 5: Animal Farm, Chapter II
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 6: Animal Farm, Chapter III
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 7: Animal Farm, Chapter III
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 8: Animal Farm, Chapter IV, The Battle of the Cowshed
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 9: Animal Farm, Chapter V
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 10: Animal Farm, Chapter V, Propaganda, Persuasion, and Fear
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 11: Animal Farm, Chapters I–V Debate
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 12: Animal Farm, Making Connections to the Russian Revolution
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 13: Animal Farm, Making Connections to the Russian Revolution Through Writing
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 14: Animal Farm, Chapters I–V, Introduction to Argument Writing
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 15
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Lesson 16: Flex Day: Skill-Based Huddles
Flex day
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 17: Pictures with a Point: Historical Propaganda
Research
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 18: Corroborating What Sources Say About Propaganda
Research
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 19: Animal Farm, Chapter VI
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 20: Animal Farm, Chapter VII, Scapegoating as Propaganda
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 21: Animal Farm, Chapter VII, Confessions and Executions
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 22: Animal Farm, Chapters VI-VII, Writing About Revolutionary Ideals
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 23: Animal Farm, Chapter VIII
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 24: Animal Farm, Comparing Historical Revolutions to Animal Farm
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 25: Animal Farm, Comparing Historical Revolutions to Animal Farm Through Discussion
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 26: Animal Farm Chapters I–VIII, Writing a Strong Argument Claim
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 27: Animal Farm Chapter IX
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 28: Animal Farm, Chapter X, “But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 29: Animal Farm: Chapters I–X, Comparing the Film to the Novel
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 30: Animal Farm: Chapters IV and IX, Comparing the Film to the Novel
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 31: Animal Farm, Chapters I–X, Writing Body Paragraphs Using the TREE Strategy
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 32: Animal Farm Chapters I–X, Writing Argument Body Paragraphs
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 33: Delineating the Four Freedoms Speech by FDR
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 34: “The Four Freedoms Speech,” Delineating and Evaluating an Argument
Reading
Duration:
40 min
Lesson 35: “The Four Freedoms Speech,” Evaluating FDR’s Argument
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 36
Not Yet Ingested
Lesson 37: Flex Day: Skill-Based Huddles
Flex day
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 38: Performance Task Planning
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 39: Performance Task: Exemplar and Introduction
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 40: Performance Task: Drafting Body Paragraphs for Argument Writing
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 41: Performance Task: Analyzing Persuasive Techniques in Argument Body Paragraphs
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 42: Performance Task: Drafting a Counterclaim and Rebuttal
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 43: Performance Task: Revising for Cohesion, Formal Style, and Clarity
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 44: Flex Day: Skill-Based Huddles
Flex day
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 45: Performance Task: Final Revision of the Argument Essay
Writing
Duration:
20 min