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Cartoons for the Classroom: The Constitutional Battleground

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about the Supreme Court and Constitutional issues and respond to 5 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Dissecting a Toon, Empowering Women

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about working women and respond to 4 short answer questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Animations Help Win the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Cartooning

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, learners analyze political cartoons representing the work of the 2007 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Bill of Rights Day

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about the Bill of Rights and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Support Your Local Cartoonist

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events instructional activity, students analyze a political cartoon based on a issue in Buffalo, NY and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Saying it Without Words

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events activity, students analyze a political cartoon that requires them to consider the power of symbols in cartoons and respond to 4 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Cartoons and Culture

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon with anti-American symbolism and respond to 5 short answer questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Symbolism, Octopus

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons regarding the symbolism of the octopus and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Drawing a Familiar analogy

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon that requires them to interpret analogies in cartoons and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Fat Cats Living off the High Hog

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon that uses an idiom to convey its meaning. Students respond  to 4 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Censorship, Silencing an Anti-War Voice

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students analyze political cartoons with anti-war messages and respond to 5 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Tooning into the Candidates, John Edwards

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, learners analyze a political cartoon about John Edwards and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Campaign Fundraising

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about American campaign fundraising and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Editorial Cartoons

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Do your classes love reading and drawing cartoons? Middle schoolers read an editorial cartoon from a newspaper. They discuss the cartoonist's topic, audience, and purpose. Next, they brainstorm questions they have about the cartoon and...
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University of California

Equal Rights? The Women's Movement from Suffrage to Schlafly

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If you've never heard of the Equal Rights Amendment, it's probably because there isn't one in the United States Constitution. Delve into the contentious history behind the ERA, its founders and supporters, and reasons for its political...
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Cartoons in the Classroom: Cartoon Analysis Worksheet

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons of their choosing and respond to 12 analysis questions about the cartoons
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Herblock at 100

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, learners analyze political cartoons by Herb Block and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Editorial Cartoons: Poverty/Environmental Justice

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils analyze political cartoons. For this political cartoon lesson, students analyze an editorial cartoon to develop an understanding of the historical context, symbolism, visual composition, and satire of the cartoon regarding poverty...
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Library of Congress

The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment

For Teachers 8th Standards
How did the Emancipation Proclamation lead to the Thirteenth Amendment? Middle schoolers analyze primary source documents including the text of the Emancipation Proclamation, political cartoons, photographs, and prints to understand the...
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University of Pennsylvania

Using Political Postcards to Teach a Revolution of Political Thought

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Discuss how political postcards affected everyday people's thoughts and beliefs. Pupils continue a unit on the Dreyfus Affair as they engage in class discussion, watch a video, view a PowerPoint presentation, and fill out worksheets to...
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US Holocaust Museum

The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Have you ever listened to a song that had a deeper political meaning to it? Every examined a work of art with layers of meaning? Pupils analyze the drawings of Arthur Szyk. They research the deeper meaning of several artistic cartoons...
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Cartoon Questions

For Students 8th - 12th
Political cartoons serve as primary source documents in a short, straightforward history assignment. After viewing two cartoons on the Monroe Doctrine, learners answer several comprehension questions about the circumstances depicted in...
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Analyzing Election Cartoons

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to the history of political cartoons and examine both historical and modern examples. They analyze a cartoon that expresses an opinion about a current event different than their own and develop an original...
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The Way Editorial Cartoons Work

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders interpret visual language found in political cartoons.

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