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Blake, Nory. "Creating Propaganda Posters: A Lesson in How Two Enemies Viewed the Vietnam War." Social Education. 58.5 (September 1994) 277-278. This article outlines a lesson plan designed to instruct students about the power of propaganda by having them recreate Vietnam propaganda posters from the American and Vietnamese perspectives.
Poster Analysis Worksheet. This worksheet from the US National Archives and Records Administration offers a basic rubric for evaluating propaganda poster; this sheet could be easily adapted to focus more heavily on the visual rhetoric of these posters as well. http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/poster.html
Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art of World War II. This Lesson Plan from the National Archives provides an overview of lesson and links to primary materials designed to help student learn to work critically with visual propaganda. http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion.html
Propaganda. This page, sponsored by Turner Learning, includes general questions for discussion, a handout, some activities, and some links. Although geared mostly toward verbal propaganda, the questions and activities can be redesigned to focus on the visual. http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/cw_prop.html
Sow the Seeds of Victory! Posters from the Food Administration during World War I. This Teaching with Documents Lesson Plan from the National Archives provides background and an extended exercise, with links to primary materials, aimed to help students understand the power of propaganda. http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/sow_the_seeds/sow_the_seeds.html
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