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 =Media Literacy is the power to know what is really intended behind what //appears// to be the message. =

** //Media analyst, Marshall McLuhan said, "The medium is the message." This project will help you better understand how newspapers, radio, television, and the computer media impact our thinking regarding political candidates, especially through their use of political advertizements.//  =__**Propaganda- noun. 1. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.**__ =  =**Types of propaganda:** = =//__F e a r -__// Glittering Generalities - //Euphemisms -// Rewards -   = =  __Band-wagon -__  <span style="color: rgb(149, 128, 250)"><span style="color: rgb(64, 22, 227)">Repetition ( Repetition) - <span style="color: rgb(48, 18, 191)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(44, 195, 66)">__Testimonials -__   = =<span style="color: rgb(48, 18, 191)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 189)"><span style="color: rgb(242, 64, 189)">Tra<span style="color: rgb(243, 119, 237)">nsfer -   <span style="color: rgb(238, 105, 23)">//Name Calling -// <span style="color: rgb(94, 43, 43)">//Faulty Cause & Effect -// <span style="color: rgb(81, 37, 136)">Plain Folks = =<span style="color: rgb(81, 37, 136)"> = =<span style="color: rgb(219, 26, 26); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif">The assignment: = =<span style="color: rgb(219, 26, 26); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif"> =
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(18, 40, 222); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">//"Politics offers// //<span style="color: rgb(38, 21, 209); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">y // <span style="color: rgb(38, 21, 209); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">//esterday’s answers to today’s questions." Marshall McLuhan//
 * Each class is divided into four groups.
 * Each group will define all eleven propaganda terms in words your entire group understands and put the definitions on your specific Wiki page.
 * All members of your group will then agree on six of the terms for which you will select six political television ads that use at least one of your chosen terms from the 2008 ads on the following site: <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/
 * Each ad must be embedded on your Wiki page next to, or beneath, the appropriate term and its definition. (Ms. Stewart has created directions for embedding your ads on <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">http://screencast.com/t/DuuH1GmP )
 * On your Wiki page, you will also Identify the following points in each selected ad:
 * Candidate/party (equal number)
 * Who ad is made or sponsored by
 * Issue or focus of the ad
 * intended audience (You can base your opinions on the following aspects of the ad):
 * narrator (male or female?)
 * location
 * music
 * people in the ad

<span style="display: block; color: rgb(23, 29, 211); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(240, 249, 123); text-align: center">**SHOW ME THE KNOWLEDGE!**