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This unit on World War II propaganda was co-planned by the Eighth grade team members Theodore Schuenemann (Social Studies teacher) and Chris Thompson (Reading teacher).

Students will analyze a piece of poster propaganda from World War II by carefully examining the colors, space used, and images to gain an understanding of how it was used to influence its audience during the time period. In addition, each student will post a response to at least one other student’s analysis page on the discussion board.

We will each provide student samples for our own classrooms. The web 2.0 tool that we used was wikispaces.





3 Student Samples are attached (Above Expectations, Meets Expectations, and Below Expectations with accompanying rubrics). In my home base 331 I had no Above Expectations with the time constraints in the computer lab. As we ran out of computer lab time and the students did not have the time to post their responses to the wiki from their MAS shared drive. As a result we did not have the time for the students to complete the response to another wiki portion.

Below are two work samples that show that the studnets work Meet the Expectations of the assignment:



Below is a sample of a student's work that was graded as Below Expectations.



Before working on the wiki, students were introduced to the concept of Propaganda completing the worksheet called Using Primary Sources: A World War II Political Cartoon, which is attached to the World War II Propaganda Unit Plan.