There will be two days of the propaganda test, Tuesday and the Wednesday/Thursday block schedule: Wednesday for 6th Period, Thursday for 3rd/5th.
Tuesday is over the major concepts and authors, including:
- George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language
- Chomsky and Herman’s The Manufacture of Consent
- Jacques Ellul’s The Characteristics of Propaganda
- Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Data Smog, Central and Peripheral Communication
The block schedule test will be a review of propaganda techniques.
All the notes are available online.
