Quote Wednesday April 8 th, 2009 (4/8/2009) Required Materials:  Notebook  Pen/Pencil Time Given:What We Will Do: 1 minute 3 minutes 7 minutes 10 minutes 5 minutes 1 minute Review: Responsibility Credit/Strike System Reminders Warm Up: “Obedience to Authority.” PP Notes: The Milgram Experiment PP Notes: Holocaust-era Propaganda, Aryan Race Reflect on Propaganda The Poisonous Mushroom Discussion: Night “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” --James Joyce from Ulysses

 Is a new Class work grade for this class.  It means that YOU take responsibility for your grade and getting your make up work.  Everyday you are here, you receive a 100% A in class work.  If you are absent, I will give you a 0% F; if you come and see me to get your make up work, I will change that 0% F to a 100% A.  Questions? “Responsibility Credit”

 1 st period: 3 Strikes (2 days to go)  Suggestions: Stop talking during warm up/during “no talk” times.  2 nd period: NO STRIKE SYSTEM  3 rd period: NO STRIKE SYSTEM  4 th period: 3 Strikes (2 days to go)  Suggestions: Get back from lunch ON TIME (1:03)  6 th period: 7 Strikes  Suggestions: Stop talking during warm up/during “no talk” times, and while I’m talking. Strike System Reminders

Time Given: 3 minutes Yesterday when I asked you to stand up, most/all of you stood up. When I asked you why you stood up, most of you replied, “because you told me to.” If someone tells you to do something that you don’t want to do, would you do it? Why or why not? Now, what if I told you to injure another person who you don’t want to injure. Would you injure that person? Why or why not? Wednesday April 8 th, 2009 (4/8/2009)

 In the 1960’s, social psychologist Stanley Milgram started performing experiments to figure out why millions of Germans thought it was perfectly okay to slaughter millions of Jews during World War II. 1.Were they just listening to their superiors? 2.Were the German people brainwashed? The Milgram Experiment

 The answer is YES. Were they listening to their superiors?

 The answer is YES.  The question that remains is…how far would someone go to please an authority figure? Were they listening to their superiors?

 In his experiment, Milgram set up:  1 room with an authority figure (AF) and a tester (T1)  1 room with another tester (T2) The Milgram Experiment

 The authority figure (AF) would ask a question to the second tester (T2).  If the second tester (T2) got it right, nothing happened.  If the second tester (T2) got it wrong, the authority figure (AF) ordered the first tester (T1) to give the second tester (T2) a shock. The Milgram Experiment

 Every wrong question resulting in a higher-level shock.  The last level shock (450 volts) was enough to kill the second tester (T2). The Milgram Experiment

 You should know that both the Authority figure (AF) and the second tester (T2) are “in” on the experiment.  Meaning, there are NO painful shocks actually being delivered.  Only the first tester (T1) thinks he is delivering painful shocks to the second tester (T2) each time he gets and answer wrong. The Milgram Experiment

 If the tester (T1) wanted to quit giving shocks to the other tester (T2), the Authority figure (AF) would say:  “Please continue.”  “The experiment requires that you continue.”  “You have no other choice, you must go on.” The Milgram Experiment

 If there were 40 people in the experiment, how many do you think delivered the “fatal” shock? The Milgram Experiment

 If there were 40 people in the experiment, how many do you think delivered the “fatal” shock? The Milgram Experiment

 If there were 40 people in the experiment, how many do you think delivered the “fatal” shock?  65% (26/40) The Milgram Experiment

 If there were 40 people in the experiment, how many do you think delivered the “fatal” shock?  65% (26/40)  Most were uncomfortable delivering the last shock; every one questioned the Authority figure (AF) at some point during the experiment, but the tester (T1) kept delivering shocks. The Milgram Experiment

 We are obedient to authority figures. The Milgram Experiment

 The answer is YES. Were the German people brainwashed?

 The answer is YES.  How did they do it? Were the German people brainwashed?

 Nazi propaganda seeks to influence its viewer by using a “scare tactic,” which causes fear to its viewer. Nazi Propaganda

 Aryan race propaganda = blonde haired, blue eyed Germans considered the perfect race of people. Nazi Propaganda

 I am going to show you 4 Nazi propaganda images.  For each, I want you to look at it and write for 1 minute in your notebook about what it is saying about the Jewish people and/or the Germans.  Stay quiet for the full minute so everyone has a chance to write and share! Nazi Propaganda

 “School children are taught at an early age how to recognize a Jewish person on the street.” Nazi Propaganda

 A movie poster titled, “The Eternal Jew.” Nazi Propaganda

 “The eternal Jew– look at what he carries with him!” Nazi Propaganda

 School children reading a book. Nazi Propaganda

 How were the Nazi’s so effective at brainwashing everyone? Nazi Propaganda

 It starts with THE CHILDREN. Nazi Propaganda

 A Nazi propaganda children’s story warning against trusting Jews. The Poisonous Mushroom

 A Nazi propaganda children’s story warning against trusting Jews.  Let’s read it together… The Poisonous Mushroom

 Take 3 minutes and write a reflection on the story I just read to you. What do you think about it? Should children listen to it? Explain your answer in as much detail and you can provide. The Poisonous Mushroom

 Combine children’s stories, magazine articles, movies, advertisements and the German people were brainwashed into believing that the Jews were the start of every problem they had. Nazi Propaganda

 Propaganda can brainwash us. Nazi Propaganda

 That story that we will start reading next week is called, “Night.”  It tells the story of a boy named Elie—from before the Germans take everyone to his time in the concentration camp.  It is a work of NON-FICTION, meaning the story is true. Night