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Cartoons for the Classroom: Loaded with Symbols

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events learning exercise, students analyze a political cartoon about the Christian Right support of President Bush and respond to 4 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Drawing the Line

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students read about the attributes of political and editorial cartoonists. Students then respond to 2 short answer 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: Herblock at 100

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events activity, students analyze political cartoons by Herb Block and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Tooning into the Candidates, John Edwards

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

For Students 8th - 12th
In 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: Xenophobia

For Students 8th - 12th
For this historical events worksheet, students analyze an anti-immigration political cartoon and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Support Your Local Cartoonist

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, 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 worksheet, 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: Dark Voice

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon by African-American Oliver Harrington and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Symbolism, Octopus

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, learners analyze political cartoons regarding the symbolism of the octopus 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
For this current events worksheet, learners 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 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: A Study in Early Caricatures

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze caricatures of Barak Obama through the years and respond to 3 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: Face Time

For Students 8th - 12th
In this historical events learning exercise, students examine caricatures of George W. Bush throughout his career and respond to 2 talking point questions.
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Cartoons in the Classroom: Party Animals

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons that feature donkeys and elephants as political party symbols and respond to 2 short answer questions.
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Fred Seibel, the Times-Dispatch, and Massive Resistance

For Teachers 4th Standards
A lesson challenges scholars to analyze editorial cartoons created by Fred Seibel, illustrator for the Times-Dispatch, during the Massive Resistance. A class discussion looking at today's editorial pages and Jim Crow Laws leads the...
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American Revolution: Events Leading to War

For Teachers 8th
After learning about the growing revolutionary sentiment among colonists, class members work in small groups or pairs to design a political cartoon.
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Superpowered Interdisciplinary Projects: Using the Science in Saturday Morning Cartoons

For Teachers 6th - 12th
How to leverage cultural background knowledge to increase student investment.
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Narrative Cartoons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast the traditional superhero cartoon with a narrative cartoon. Students research water resources and usage in Africa and create original narrative cartoons showcasing their findings.
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Primary Source Worksheet: Udo J. Keppler, “Next!”

For Students 8th - 11th
Standard Oil's stranglehold on the US government is the subject of a 1904 political cartoon. Kids use the questions on the provided learning exercise to prompt their analysis of this primary source.
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Summarizing Political Cartoons by Using Standard Parts of Speech

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars analyze a political cartoon, and at the same time cover the basic parts of speech, in order to view a cartoon and determine its subject, action verb, and object.
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What is the Population Distribution of Cartoon Characters Living On the Pages of Your Newspaper?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars read various cartoons in their local newspaper and calculate the population demographics, spatial distribution and grouping of the characters. Using this information, they create a population distribution map and share...

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