Think Like a Viewer - Part A
Completion requirements
Unit 2
How Do Advertisements Influence People?
Activity: Reader's Notebook
Think Like a Viewer
Read page 69 of Literacy in Action 5A.
Click each coloured row for information about the activity.
Focus your attention before you view the poster, The Big Sell: Take a Walk Through Your Body, (found in the During Reading drop-down button below).
Nancy, a former ADLC student, wants to share three questions that can help you better understand advertisements when you view them.
Nancy, a former ADLC student, wants to share three questions that can help you better understand advertisements when you view them.
- What do you see?
- How does the advertisement make you feel?
- What does the advertisement want you to do?
Document: Reader's Notebook: Viewing Advertising
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- Download the document Reader's Notebook: Viewing Advertising.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: When the download screen opens:
- Click the "Open with" button.
- Select "Adobe Reader".
- Click "OK".
- You will then be able to view the document Reader's Notebook: Viewing Advertising.
- Print the document. This activity is not for marks.
Spend between two to five minutes examining the poster The Big Sell: Take a Walk Through Your Body.
Then, read Nancy's notes below for information on how she answers the three questions:
- What do you see?
- How does the advertisement make you feel?
- What does the advertisement want you to do.
After reading Nancy's notes, answer the During Reading section of questions on the Reader's Notebook: Viewing Advertising
"Green Arrow" hostess ad, via flickr.
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Download a PDF of the poster.
Download a PDF of the poster.
Answer the After Reading section of questions on the Reader's Notebook: Viewing Advertising.
Save
How to save a file:
- Scan the document to your computer.
- Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
- Name your Reader's Notebook: Viewing Advertising file in this format: jsmith_viewingadvertising and save the file to your Documents folder.
Compare your responses with those in the Key by clicking here. This activity is not for marks.