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This Primary Source Worksheet: Grant E. Hamilton, “I Rather Like That Imported Affair” worksheet also includes:
Political cartoons are primary source documents and learning to read them can be a challenge. Challenge the reading skills of your class with a political cartoon featuring rough and ready, Teddy Roosevelt.
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- Ask viewers to consider why the cartoonist may have chosen to present Roosevelt dressed as he is in the cartoon
- Ask class members to bring in examples of current political cartoons
- Collect the entire set of worksheets and use periodically as skill-building exercises
- Sort the worksheets by subject and incorporate into appropriate units
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- The questions included on the worksheet focus readers' attention on how the artist uses details to convey a point of view
- The questions also ask readers to draw on other resources to interpret the image
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