Honors English Propaganda Posters

Brooklynn Smith, Staff Writer

March 12, 2024

Mrs. Gustafson’s English Honor classes is currently reading the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. If you don’t know what Animal Farm is, it represents the Russian Revolution of 1917 and how humans and leaders could make their situation worse. It shows how bad believing in a false revolution could be, and what the resulting consequences are.

The book uses a lot of propaganda due to the fact it’s based off of a revolution. Taking the thought of propaganda, Mrs. Gustafson is having her English Honor classes draw a poster with a motto that resembles propaganda. She started the project on February 27th, and intends to have it done by February 30th. The students are working very hard on finding a proper motto and drawing the poster.

One of the English Honor students from period six, Breanna Meggison, says,” I liked doing it [the poster], I think it was cool to see how people interpreted the characters. I liked winning, it was my favorite part of the day”. Maira Richey, who is also from sixth period, states,” I liked working on the posters. They were really fun to work on, even though I didn’t win.” Maci Cornish and Makenna Quick share similar thoughts.

The honors classes had a lot of fun making these posters, and they worked hard on it. The two winners of each class [Kaden Gasseling and Breanna Meggison from sixth period and Will Nolette and Taryn Erickson from fourth period] hung their posters up around the school, so you can see the hard work they did. She cannot continue doing this due to her leaving, but hopefully the teacher that takes over does.

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Brooklynn Smith, Staff Writer

Brooklynn Smith was born February, 2008 and raised in Alliance, Nebraska. Brooklynn does dance, pointe, lyrical, tap,and jazz for 8 years. Her favorite games to play are Left 4 Dead 2, Minecraft, and Call of Duty. She likes these games because of how competitive they are and the way it channels her anger. Her favorite music artists to listen to are Lana Del Ray, Mitski, TV Girl, Slipknot, and Peso Pluma because she loves the meaning they put out. Brooklynn’s favorite animals include capybaras and African rain frogs, she said she likes them because “Capybaras are big rodents and rain frogs have tiny little butts”. She also hopes to go into child psychology because she doesn’t want kids going through emotional breaks. She wants to understand them and help fix their mental thinking of life. More into Brooklynn’s school and personal life, she joined the middle school band in 6th grade because she wanted to try a new hobby. She started playing clarinet and learning some saxophone.Then the summer going into sophomore year, Brooklynn became an aunt to her niece Soraiyah. She also had a great summer hanging out with her friends. Brooklynn joined The SPUD to become more social with the people around her and in hopes to interview many people, she can't wait to write for the SPUD.