Part of Lesson Plan: Propaganda and Persuasion or influencing friends and convincing strangers

Activity Overview / Details

Pair students into working partners. Try to pair them with others they have not worked with. The students are to come up with one product and one issue that they would like to “sell” to their classmates.

After they decide on their product and issue they should determine what technique would work best to “sell” the product/idea and why they feel that technique is the best.

When all groups are finished, the teams should join with another pair of students to become a “super” group. At that point the groups need to choose 1 product and 1 idea to present to the class as a group.