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Summary and Objective
Students will understand that propaganda can be an effective tool in shaping public opinion. Students will examine a picture, determine whether it is propaganda, and then draw their own picture of the same event from the opposing perspective.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Students will listen to the teacher tell an unbiased account of the facts of the story that later became known as the Boston Massacre.
Step 2.
Students will view the engraving, " The Bloody Massacre perpetrated on King Street, Boston on March 5th 1770" and decide if the facts of the story match up with Paul Revere's picture.
Step 3.
Students will discuss the story and the picture to see how propoganda was used, and determine if the picture was successful in influencing people who viewed it.
Step 4.
Students will draw a new picture of the same event in Boston. This picture must be from the British perspective and will appear in a London newspaper. The picture must have a new title and be an example of British propaganda.
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