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Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
Commercial advertising—we can't get away from it, but do we realize just how often we are being advertised to? With this instructional activity, scholars analyze mass media to identify how its techniques influence our daily lives....
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Persuasive Writing Skills Worksheets
What makes you want to buy that new car? Or vote for that popular politician? Study the persuasive techniques commonly found in advertisements or argumentative writing, including repetition, exaggeration, and fact vs. opinion.
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Analyzing a Product or Political Advertisement
How do advertisements evoke specific thoughts and feelings? Class members find out through the exploration of the Internet, videos, television, magazines, radio, and posters. Learners investigate commercial advertisements, political...
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#1639. Advertising Age: Using the Internet
The ten questions included on this worksheet are designed to facilitate a close study of the website of Advertising Age magazine. Using the Internet, learners explore the magazine’s website and its links to become familiar with the...
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White Star Line and the Titanic
Was the Titanic advertised as an unsinkable ship, or was it just what the public believed? In this analysis activity, historians examine both primary and secondary sources to determine the answer to this question and the reliability of...
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Advertisement
Advertisers are out to get your pupils' business, and as consumers, they need to be aware of how advertisements are crafted. After delineating the four parts of an ad, this worksheet presents a sample and readers are asked to identify...
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The Learning Network: Fill-In Super Bowl Ads
A possible high-interest activity for the ESL classroom, this online resource has learners complete a fill in the blank exercise about advertisements during the Super Bowl. Coupled with a related article entitled "Before the Toss, Super...
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Deconstructing an Advertisement
Ethos, logos, and pathos. Class members use an inventory analysis to deconstruct the effects of an advertisement. They identify the target audience, the persuasive and color appeals used, as well as the diction, images, and tone.
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Advertisement Evaluation Document
In this advertisement evaluation worksheet, students complete a checklist that tells about what type of advertisement they are looking at. They determine what type of product is being advertised and tell if they would purchase it.
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Mighty Minerals
In this mineral worksheet, students use encyclopedias, the Internet, science catalogs, or magazines to complete research questions about a mineral. Using their research information, they also create a cartoon for their mineral.
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Real Life Challenge- Give Me Credit!
In this credit worksheet, students calculate the value of 4 different loans before completing a table about credit card offers advertised in newspapers, magazine, or junk mail.
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Ads Are Everywhere
In this advertisements worksheet, students read a list of 25 specific forms of advertising. Students then answer 2 essay questions. This worksheet directs students to read an article not provided here.
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Time Travel Advertisement
What makes an effective advertisement? Read the advertisement for the Time Machine 3000, and discuss the format and heading with your class. A short series of questions help middle schoolers analyze this advertisement before they write...
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Adopt-An-Element
In this chemistry worksheet, students complete an adopt an element information sheet. Then they create an advertisement for their element including the information listed. Students also write its important uses, interesting facts, and...
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Mighty Minerals Report Requirements
In this minerals worksheet, students create a cartoon of a mineral and include its chemical formula and its important uses. They create a slogan and a cartoon character to represent their mineral. They fill out important information on a...
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Real Life Challenge
In this career worksheet, students complete one of the listed projects on the sheet. They create a menu for one day and calculate the total cost for a day's worth of food. Students also design a career brochure to educate others about...
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Culture and Play Checklist
In this culture worksheet, students research and analyze grown-up pastimes that stem from traditional, popular, or elite culture by answering 7 short answer questions.
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What's in the News?
In this analysing articles worksheet, young scholars read two newspaper articles about the issue of radon and answer six questions that allow students to reflect on how the articles were written and what is left unknown to the readers.
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It's Sale Time: Shopping Vocabulary
In this shopping vocabulary worksheet, students choose a word of word set to correctly fill in blanks in sentences, 15 sentences total.