Powerful Propaganda!

7 Pioneer threw themselves into their first source analysis today. The ability to analyse sources will be central in their Hums expeditions and into GCSE. Sources are analysed in detail to help us gain an insight into the context and attitudes of a certain period in history – in our case, we looked at the recruitment propaganda posters from the Great War to gain an insight into society’s attitudes and expectations of men during this time.

We first looked at the features that we would be looking for in a source, for example, body language, facial expressions, language and hidden messages. We then explored how these features tell us a message about the source and the historical period it was from.

It was fantastic to see how focused Pioneer were when analysing the sources. They were really thinking deeply into how and why the images and language of the posters were portraying a message. I’m excited to hear the wonderful insights the students have about the other sources we will look at. Judging by the annotations they’ve made in today’s lessons, their full written source analyses will be brilliant!

Keep up the hard work Pioneer!