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“The Wail of the Kept Press”: Media Bias and Free Speech
Students analyze a 1912 pro-union poster for messages about free speech in the workplace and about stereotypes in media messages. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Open Shop Poster
Students analyze a 1916 anti-union poster for messages about employer/worker relations and about benefit and harm in media documents. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Making Human Junk : Child Labor Poster
Students analyze a 1915 poster for messages about child labor and about the early use of photography in poster design. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Civil Liberties For Workers Poster
Students analyze a flyer protesting state and military suppression of strikers for messages about injustice to workers and about techniques of persuasion. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Pyramid of Capitalist System Poster
Students analyze a 1911 poster for messages about capitalism, class conflict and about techniques and target audience. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Students analyze a front page about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire for messages about unsafe working conditions and about the economics and purpose of media newspaper headlines. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Union Labels
Students analyze labor union labels for messages about labor union membership and about social justice organization logos. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
"Wanted: Strikebreakers" Poster
Students analyze an 1898 flyer advertising for "good colored miners" to become strikebreakers for messages about management efforts to break strikes and about target audience and purpose. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Pullman Strike
Students analyze a book illustration and newspaper headlines for messages about 19th century labor strikes and about conflicting points of view in media messages. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Anti-Chinese Labor Party Poster
Students analyze an 1879 anti-Chinese labor party poster for messages about Chinese immigrant workers and about racism in the early labor movement. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Horatio Alger: From Rags to Riches
Students analyze frontispieces from two 19th century books for messages about "rags to riches" media tropes and about race and gender in construction of fictional characters. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl
Students analyze a 19th century magazine cover for messages about labor conditions for women working in sweathops and about editorial techniques to reach an audience. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Which Side Are You On?” To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
George Washington: Farmer & Slaveowner (The Farmer, 1853 Lithograph)
Students analyze a 19th century lithograph for messages about George Washington as a farmer and slaveowner and about hero messages in printmaking. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Arguing For Freedom”. To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Slave Auction Poster
Students analyze a 19th century auction poster for messages about the nature and economics of slavery and about the ethics of advertising the sale of human beings. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Arguing For Freedom”. To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Students analyze the title page and an illustration from the autobiography of abolitionist Frederick Douglass for messages about the nature of slavery and the role of autobiography as a form of resistance to slavery. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Arguing For Freedom”. To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Abolitionist Trading Cards
Students analyze abolitionist trading cards for messages about the nature of identity and family under enslavement and about the creation of creative media forms to oppose slavery. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Arguing For Freedom”. To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Freedom's Journal: Abolitionists Speak Out
Students analyze a poster and newspaper article from early 19th century African American abolitionists for messages about their critiques of the institution of slavery and the audiences they sought to inspire. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Arguing For Freedom”. To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
Students analyze an anti-slavery graphic image from 1850 and a 2009 Google image search return for "Abolition of Slavery" for messages about the nature of enslaved Africans and about the resonance of iconic abolitionist imagery. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Arguing For Freedom”. To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator" Newspaper
Students analyze the front page masthead of William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator" newspaper for messages about graphic imagery used by the abolitionist movement and about target audience. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Arguing For Freedom”. To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes
Wanted: The Abolitionist
Students analyze a wanted poster for an abolitionist for messages about how pro-slavery forces represented the abolitionist movement and about how media is used to inflame. This simple decoding activity has been taken from a larger lesson with many slides titled “Arguing For Freedom”. To access this lesson, type the title with quotes into the PLS keyword search bar.
High School, College
Under 15 Minutes