Unit Schedule

  Day by Day

 

Day

Activities

Assignments

1

Slogan Quiz

Slogan Quiz 2

 

Introduce Unit with Advertisement Affects Me Powerpoint

 

Introduce students to website

 

Vocabulary List

 

Log of advertising exposure (wksht).

Due Day Seven.

 

Chart It

2

Writing into the day.

Quick read around.

 

How to Read an Ad

Slide show

 

Recognizing Appeals and Claims

Slide show

 

Identify persuasive techniques.

 

 

Identifying and Analyzing Print Ads (wksht)  

Due Day Three

 

 

 

3

Present Identifying and Analyzing Print Ads. (assessment)

 

Direct the students to certain commercials using www.ads.com.

Discuss persuasive techniques already learned.

 

 

Identifying and Analyzing Commercials

(wksht)

Due Day Four

4

Present Identifying and Analyzing Commercials. (assessment)

 

Discuss target audience.

 

When and where are commercials placed in order to reach their intended target audience?  Find examples in magazines, radio, and cite examples from TV viewing and billboard exposure.

Dissect language within two alike product advertisements for two different audiences.

Yogurt Appeal/ two audiences

due Day Eight

 

5

Writing into the day (media law scenario)

 

Analyzing Commercials (assessment)

 

Advertising Law Lecture with read around from journal

 

Illegal

Illegal 2

Illegal 3

Illegal 4

Illegal 5

 

Scenerios and What do you think?

 

List of illegal advertising techniques

Due day Six

6

 

Work time for Yogurt Appeal

 

Advertising Vocabulary Test

7

Introduce Promote Wakonda Campaign Assessment

(Semester Long Campaign)

 

Work time for Yogurt Appeal

 

Promote Wakonda Campaign

8

Present Yogurt Appeal (assessment)

 

Discuss log for exposure and feelings about ads and exposure

 

 

9

Digital Manipulation

Take fake or real test

Digital cameras

Create a“Doctored” Image.  Due Day Twelve.

 

10

Advertising Law and Ethics (guest speaker)

11

 

Work time Doctored Image and Wakonda Campaign

 

 

12

Present Doctored Image

and vote (assessment)

 

Subliminal Advertising

 

Ethics and law

 

 

13

Is this legal or not?

 

 

Identifying deception vs puffery advertising.

Help

 

14

Identifying deception vs. puffery due. (assessment)

 

15

Review techniques, digital manipulation, advertising law, and subliminal ads

 

16

 

Advertising Test

17