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Jesse Owens: Track and Field Legend

For Students 9th - 10th
The official website for Jesse Owens, who almost single-handedly undid Hitler's propaganda plans for the 1936 Olympics by winning four gold medals.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The Populist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set highlights prominent Populists, propaganda from political campaigns, and political arguments of the movement.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Rhetoric

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students engage with texts that have persuasive power and examine how argument is created. The variety of texts allows students to evaluate the impact of occasion and audience upon the use of rhetorical appeals in a variety of media....
Article
A&E Television

History.com: How Paul Revere's Engraving of the Boston Massacre Rallied the Patriot Cause

For Students 9th - 10th
A silversmith by trade, Revere also produced copperplate engravings for book and magazine illustrations, portraits and political drawings that supported the nascent Patriot movement. Reveres most effective piece of anti-British...
Website
National Archives (UK)

Uk National Archives: The Art of War

For Students 9th - 10th
A site that looks at historically significant illustrations, cartoons, films, and pictorial propoganda having to do with Britain's war efforts.
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Arizona State University

Chicana and Chicano Space: Protest and Persuasion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Part of a larger website provided by Arizona State University on Chicano art, this learning is focused on "Protest and Persuasion," in art, particularly in printmaking or making murals. Includes lessons, sample work, and more.
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Library of Congress

Loc: From the Home Front and the Front Lines

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition consisting of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections.
Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
A chronology of the conspiracy theory deliberately created in a book, probably by Russian secret police in the late 19th century, and how that text has been used in the last 100+ years by various groups to justify antisemitic actions.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Poster Art of World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
In this American Experience site about Woodrow Wilson and his tenure as president, find a gallery of posters published to encourage the public's support for entry into World War I. The posters were produced as part of the Committee on...
Article
PBS

Pbs: Egypt's Golden Kingdom: Art and Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
The New Kingdom pharaohs moved from building pyramids to temples. Read about the temples, where they were, and the uses in this PBS article.
Website
PBS

Pbs: The War: At Home

For Students 9th - 10th
From the extensive PBS site accompanying Ken Burns' The War, read about America at home during World War II. Read about war mobilization, censorship, how families dealt with the war, and the abrogation of civil rights as Japanese...
Website
Other

Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia

For Students 9th - 10th
A companion website to the film by the same name. Tells of the little known invasio. of Finland by Russia in the winter of 1939 that probably changed the course of WW II.
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Don't Buy a Ford Ever Again, Ca. 1960

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an advertisement and some background information and answer questions about comprehension, persuasive techniques, vocabulary, author's purpose, and more. Links to a paired text and paired...
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Education Development Center

Education Development Center, Inc.: Tv411: Reading the Fine Print

For Students 6th - 8th
An interactive three-part lesson on how fine print is used in advertising. In part one students read three advertisements and determine which details from the ads are important and which are not. In part two students read six...
Primary
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: German Jewish Response to the Nuremberg Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
The response to the Nuremberg Laws by the National Representation of the Jews in Germany, September 24, 1935.
Primary
Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Selling the War to the American Public

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A resource filled with primary source materials, posters that promoted support for World War I. Included is a worksheet that can be used to analyze any of the resources, all of which are PDF files.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online

For Students K - 1st
Media Smarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will learn about online advertisements targeted to children. Students will play on online game; they will create an advertisement for a...
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Can You Spot the Ad?

For Students K - 1st
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will learn how to differentiate "branded" and brands" in content. Students will also learn learn strategies and goals of advertisers.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Arguments: Identify Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on learning to spot logical fallacies in arguments. All of us need to acquire skills to protect ourselves from falling victim to tricks of logic. By learning to detect fallacies, you can protect your values, your...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Holocaust's Legacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With this lesson plan, teachers can foster students' understanding of the devastating impact of the Holocaust. Highlights the racism of Nazi Germany and discusses the fact that many people still hold these types of beliefs today.
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iCivics

I Civics: Media and Influence

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this library of mini-lessons, students will learn about sources of influence on our society and our government such as the media and special interest groups.
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Indiana University

Lilly Library: Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Indiana University offers an illustrated history of political cartoons before and during the Civil War including pictures of Abraham Lincoln and the elections of 1860 and 1864.
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Library of Congress

Loc: On the Homefront: America During Ww I and Ww Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Using primary source documents from the Library of Congress, learn about volunteer work, civil defense, conservation efforts, economic initiatives, and patriotic support on the homefront in both World War I and World War II.
Primary
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Hermann Goering's Broadcast Excerpts

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided from ibiblio.org are excerpts of a speech that Field Marshal Hermann Goering gave to the German people to rally support for the war effort on October 4, 1942.

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