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TB - Lusitania Day (1916) Lesson PlanTB - Lusitania Day (1916) Lesson Plan
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TB - Lusitania Day (1916)

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Students, after brainstorming all the different types of propaganda, explore, analyze and study the nature, origin and purpose of propaganda and how its aims are achieved. They assess how the sinking of the Lusitania was manipulated by the British government and media.

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the lusitania, world war i

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anti-german propaganda, lusitania, wwi, english language arts

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