ESL Conversation Group at Mountain View Library

Join the ESL Conversation Group at Mountain View Public Library presented by Emily Weak. Explore club formats, topics, rules, and opportunities to practice English with native speakers. Get involved and enhance your language skills in a supportive environment.

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1. Reporting & Propaganda in the American Revolution DR. JULIA M GOSSARD, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

3. Print Culture Books Political Treatises Newspapers Cartoons Pamphlets 1750 600 copies/week 1770 1,500 copies/week

4. Common Propaganda Tactics Name calling Clear agenda Fear mongering Incomplete quotations Selectivity in sources Lack of context Exaggeration Sensationalism Loyalist Papers Patriot Papers 20 in total Boston Gazette Essex Gazette Pennsylvania Journal Massachusetts Spy New York Journal Providence Gazette 28 in total Boston Chronicle Royal American Gazette Pennsylvania Evening Post London Chronicle

5. Boston Massacre One of most sensationalized events in revolutionary period March 5, 1770 Skirmish between Bostonians and British soldiers British open fire into a crowd of 100-400 Bostonians, killing 3; injuring 2 who died; and severely injuring 12 Fierce fight in Loyalist and Patriot newspapers over what really happened

6. Patriot Propaganda Essex Gazette A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre March 20, 1770

7. Patriot Propaganda The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment

8. Loyalist Propaganda Boston Chronicle and London Chronicle A Fair Account of the Late, Unhappy Disturbance at Boston March 17, 1770

9. Thomas Paine Common Sense (1776) 120,000 copies sold in 10 months Serialized in all papers both Loyalist and Patriot Advocated strongly for American independence from Britain