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Cartoons for the Classroom: Seasonal Symbols

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons featuring Santa Claus as a symbol. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Attacking All Those Attack Ads

For Students 8th - 12th
In this symbolism worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about political campaign attack ads. Students then respond to 5 short answer questions.
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Cartoons in the Classroom: Comforting the Afflicted

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, learners analyze political cartoons about defending those who cannot defend themselves. Students respond to 4 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: The Competition of Ideas

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events learning exercise, learners analyze political cartoons based on anti-American sentiments. Students respond to 4 talking point questions
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Cartoons for the Classroom: The Many Faces of Uncle Sam

For Students 8th - 12th
In this historical events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons featuring the different faces of Uncle Sam. Students respond to 5 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Drawing Inspiration

For Students 8th - 12th
In this historical events learning exercise, students analyze political cartoons about about shifting blame. Students then respond to 2 short answer questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Bushwhacked

For Students 8th - 12th
In this historical events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons that feature caricatures of President George W. Bush. Students respond to 3 short answer questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Tooning into the Candidates - Fred Thompson

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events activity, students analyze a political cartoon about about 2008 presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Students then respond to 2 short answer questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: May Day for Immigration Debate

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about the immigration debate. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Drawing Attention

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about the scores of people dying in Sudan. Students respond to 5 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Tooning into the Olympics

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about the commercialism of the modern Olympics. Students then respond to 3 short answer questions.
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Cartoons in the Classroom: How Matt Davies Carries a Toon

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons by Matt Davies. Students respond to 2 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Can We Can Bank on It?

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about the American banking system. Students respond to 4 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: The Patriot Act

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon that requires them to consider how visual irony is used in a cartoon about the Patriot Act. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Welcoming the New Congress in Cartoons

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events instructional activity, students analyze political cartoons about the 110th Congress. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Drawing Attention to Human Rights

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about human rights. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Tooning into the Cosmos

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons that feature space science. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Al Gore Heats up a Debate

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Ben Franklin's Cartoon Contribution

For Students 8th - 12th
For this historical events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon by Ben Franklin. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Drawing on a Familiar Icon

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about the feature American icons. Students respond to 4 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Toons as Tributes

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, learners analyze political cartoons that feature tributes to Pope John Paul II. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Headlines

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine newspapers to research public opinion about the Holocaust. In this critical thinking lesson, students research the information Americans received in U.S. newspapers about events like Kristallnacht, the Berlin Olympics,...
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Holidays Seasoned with Meaning

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider how the world events of the past year have impacted their perceptions of this holiday season. Each student then explores one general theme related to his or her feelings about the season by creating a news-based collage...