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Click on the
link below. This
link will take you to the actual newspaper accounts of the
sinking of the Luisitania and other neutral ships.
Read the articles and then answer the following
questions.
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/ww1/lesson1/doc01p1.html
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1. Define the
term editorial. Are these articles reports of
events which have occurred, or are they opinions concerning
the events which have occurred? Why is it important to know
the difference between those articles which are fact and
those which are opinion?
2.
What are the dates of the attacks according to the
newspaper articles? Why are both events covered in the May
13 edition? What are the similarities and the differences in
the attacks?
3.
Define the term propaganda. Read the
account of the sinking of the Deutschland.
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/ww1/lesson1/doc03p1.html
Is the language
in which this article is printed significant? Why or why
not? Does this article contain propaganda? Why or why not?
Compare the sinking of the Deutschland with the
destruction of the Lusitania. What do these events
have in common? How are these events different?
4. Examine the
coverage of the sinking of the Lusitania with the
coverage given to the sinking of the Missourian.
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/ww1/lesson1/doc05.html
What do these
events have in common with each other? How do these events
differ?
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