A DBQ for the second nine weeks. When you get your packet, write your name and class period on the top line. FACTS INFERENCES Buttons have been a tool in political campaigns for over A fact is something you An inference is something one hundred fifty years. can read or see about each you can assume from a button. fact. When you look over these buttons, you will need to write facts and inferences about them. Read each button’s words An inference is like carefully. reading between the lines. Look at the pictures on each button carefully. What are the words and pictures trying to make you think? Turn to page 391 and follow along with the pictures as we click through history. I hate you! I hate you! W A S HINGTON Ike For President (click me!) Skim the background essay for these words and use context clues and nearby student to come up with approximation definitions. You have 8 minutes. political campaign propaganda tricks of the trade slogans endorsements testimonials Check your definitions. Did you get close? Add as much as you need to from these definitions. political campaign: Organized effort to win an election for public office propaganda: Communication aimed at convincing others of a particular idea or position tricks of the trade: Strategies or methods employed for a particular purpose slogans: Catchy phrases conveying the goals of a campaign endorsements: Statements of support testimonials: Statements about a person’s idea’s worth Please follow along with your finger as I read the background essay aloud. political campaign: Organized effort to win an election for public office propaganda: Communication aimed at convincing others of a particular idea or position tricks of the trade: Strategies or methods employed for a particular purpose slogans: Catchy phrases conveying the goals of a campaign endorsements: Statements of support testimonials: Statements about a person’s idea’s worth DO NOT GET INTO YOUR GROUPS UNTIL I’VE READ ALL THESE INSTRUCTIONS! • Your group is based on your row (so no more than 4 per group). • Move your desks together and keep apart from other groups. • Re-read the background essay on page 387 and 389 together. • The group leader (the person whose birthday comes up next) will start by reading the first paragraph. • Everyone in the group will then share their first impression starting with the person to the left of the group leader. • Everyone will write one of those quickthinks in the margin of the DBQ. (YOU CAN GET INTO GROUPS NOW) Turn to page 391 again. As a group, answer the background essay questions. Check your work: do your answers have this information? • I will read the answers in the teacher’s guide out loud. • Please put a checkmark next to the ones that you feel you “got right.” • If you need to see the teacher’s guide, come see me later. 1. 2. 3. What is the analytical question asked by this mini-Q? see title page What terms in the question need to be defined? campaign, propaganda, strategies Rewrite the question in your own words. If you were a campaign manager and wanted your campaign to be informative, effective, and ethical, what techniques would you use in your candidate’s ads? What techniques would you use? Technique #1 Technique #2 Technique #3 Technique #4 Technique #5 Technique #6 Document number or letter ______ Title of Document (if present) Source (Where did the document come from?) Date of document Author of Document Primary Source Possible Author Bias / Point of View Secondary Source What important facts can I learn from this document? What inferences can I make from this document? How does this document help answer the question? Overall, what is the main idea of the document? Analytical category (bucket): Document number or letter ______ Title of Document (if present) Source (Where did the document come from?) Date of document Author of Document Primary Source Possible Author Bias / Point of View Secondary Source What important facts can I learn from this document? What inferences can I make from this document? How does this document help answer the question? Overall, what is the main idea of the document? Analytical category (bucket): For each document, look over the ads in the document and write at least one fact and one inference for each ad. Document A has three ads (so you need 3 facts/observations and 3 inferences) Document B has one ad Document C has two ads Document D has two ads Document E has four ads Document F has two ads For each document, you must also answer the questions at the bottom of the page. I will help you with the first question. Document A: Mondale and Ferraro, 1984 Testimonials/Endorsements Document B: Ronald Regan, 1984 Stacking the Deck Document C: Eisenhower vs. Stevenson, 1952 Plain Folks Document D: George H.W. Bush, 1988 and 1992 Negative or Attack Ads Document E: Obama vs. Romney, 2012 Glittering Generalities Document F: Nixon vs. Humphrey, 1968 Guilt by Association/Coat-tailing What techniques would you use? Technique #1 $600,000 Advertisement Technique #2 $300,000 Advertisement Technique #3 $100,000 Advertisement Some documents may use multiple strategies, so make sure you put as many documents as you can in each bucket! I would distribute my one million dollars as follows: strategy 2, $300,000 Grabber: Remember, you are writing a letter. How would you start a letter? Who are you writing to? Background: Using your imagination is okay for this part. What are the strategy choices? What is propaganda? Restating the question with key terms defined: Copy what you wrote for page 393, #3. Thesis and road map: Turn your chicken foot into a sentence. I would distribute my one million dollars as follows: buy two cars for $300,000 ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ I would distribute my one million dollars as follows: buy two cars for $300,000 I would distribute my one million dollars as follows: donate $600,000 to charity, buy two cars for $300,000, and use $100,000 in dollar bills for wallpaper. Baby Thesis: ________ is my number one, $600,000 strategy. ________ is my number two, $300,000 strategy. ________ is my number three, $100,000 strategy. Evidence: Bush used this strategy in 1984 (Doc A). Kerry’s slogan was “A Stronger America”. Clinton and Dole used this strategy in 1996 (Doc E). Argument: Write about why the ad used was informative. Write about why the ad used was effective. Write about why the ad used was ethical. Conclusion: “Although” statement: Write about strategies that would be a bad fit for your candidate. Conclusion: convincing restatement of the main idea. For the reasons above, strategy 1, strategy 2, and strategy three are informative, effective, and ethical. They are informative because ________. They are effective because ________. They are ethical because ________. I recommend these for our campaign. Remember, you are writing a letter. What does a letter end with? Show me your outline when you are finished. Once I have checked your outline, you may start writing. If you need assistance, raise your hand and wait for me to come to you. You may also come to the front table to scroll through this presentation for help on your outline. Good luck! ¡Buena suerte! がんばって! 1. If you have reached this slide, please decorate your DBQ folder. 2. Every slide after this refers to another DBQ. The answers after this will be wrong for this DBQ. Don’t forget your home prep! 3.
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