Name that propaganda
This isn't a normal form of propaganda, but it's a great website to find templates for slides to fool your students into thinking you're artistic.
True or false: propaganda has a clear definition with universally agreed-upon criteria.
False - information is labeled as propaganda whenever a large group sees fit to do so.
The US Office of War Information spent money trying to convince more Americans to eat what?
Liver, brains, tongue, and other organs of animals such as cows.
Place the quotation marks in the appropriate spots in the following sentence:
Mimi crossed her arms before putting her foot down. You're all so dumb! she snapped angrily.
Mimi crossed her arms before putting her foot down. "You're all so dumb!" she snapped angrily.
This is a letter, sent from a job applicant to a prospective employer, which seeks to demonstrate high levels of commitment to that employer.
Cover Letter
Releasing several positively-framed articles about child labor shortly before several bills legalizing child labor are set to pass.
Manufacturing Consent
Using often misleading information to manipulate a person's worldview.
Propaganda
While appearing similarly-sized on a Mercator map, Africa is, in fact, ____ times larger than Greenland.
14 times larger
Correctly place the comma by finding the FANBOYS word:
I usually like his cooking but something was really off today.
I usually like his cooking, but something was really off today.
True or False:
You should talk to your co-workers about how much you each make.
True
The National Smoker's Association was presented as a group of thousands of angry smokers fighting the government when in reality it was created by major cigarette manufacturers like Camel and Marlboro.
It was a Front Organization (astroturfing slides)
A type of fake grass used on Football fields, or a type of propaganda used by powerful people to fake being grassroots organizations.
Astroturfing
___________ is the most dangerous city in America (based on number of murders per capita, 2023.)
St. Louis, MO
Place the brackets into the following sentence:
He the suspect ran around the corner before entering a vehicle.
He [the suspect] ran around the corner before entering a vehicle.
What is an interviewing really asking when giving you this question mid-interview:
"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"
Are you planning on working here longterm?
Boris Johnson paid to have hundreds of Facebook accounts attack his opponent every time they posted.
Sockpuppeting
Using a media blitz to create the illusion that everyone around you agrees with one side of a particular issue.
Manufactured Consent
Another name for Dolphinfish, used to make it more appealing to hungry consumers.
Mahi Mahi
Place the Em-Dashes:
Mallory my mother's friend is coming over today to say hi.
Mallory - my mother's friend - is coming over today to say hi.
This is a concept in which individuals change the way they speak based on the audience with which they are confronted.
Codeswitching
A company invested in nuclear powerplants used a service to get a bunch of people to storm town hall meetings with paid actors.
Creating Fake Crowds (astroturfing slides)
A specific subset of astroturfing in which fake social media profiles are created in order to create the illusion of an online mob in support of or against something.
Sockpuppeting
Chicago, often thought of as America's most dangerous city due, in part, to significant media coverage suggesting as such, is actually ranked _____ most dangerous.
28th
This grammar tool separates out two independent clauses that are related in subject matter.
Semi-colon
The name of the first assignment we had during the semester.
Incident Report