Black Dot a Dandy Ad!

Last Friday the students had the opportunity to get creative with the Black Dot a Dandy Ad! activity. For this activity, the students had to first look through magazines to find a food ad:








After they found an ad and glued it on to a sheet of paper, the next step was to turn the ad into a Great Ad by looking through their magazines for persuasive words and phrases, cutting them out, and pasting them onto their food ad to create a collage.








Once their collage was created, each student received a transparency strip of five black dots. They were to cut out these black dots and then "sneak" them into their collages.








The end result was a Black Dot Dandy Ad:







When they had all finished their Black Dot Dandy Ad, I had them display their work on the chalkboard so I could lead them in a short critique. The questions I used to generate discussion included "Which ad is the sneakiest and why?" and (in the interest of making sure every student had their work discussed) "What can you tell me about this Black Dot Ad?"