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Cartoons for the Classroom: Celebrating John Q. Public

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about the role of John Q. Public in cartoons and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Between the Lines

For Students 9th - 12th
In this sunshine week learning exercise, learners analyze a political cartoon about open government and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Between the Lines, Gas Pains...Again

For Students 9th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about the increase in gasoline prices and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Teaming up on Health Care?

For Students 8th - 12th
For this historical events worksheet, learners analyze a political cartoon about health care and respond to 3 talking point questions
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Visual Idiom, A Lame Duck

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about lame duck sessions and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Drawing a Bead on the Wall Street Rats

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about Wall Street executive bonuses and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Conserve More or Drill More?

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events learning exercise, students analyze a political cartoon about oil drilling and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Epic Battle Rages On

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events learning exercise, students analyze political cartoons about the election of 2008 and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: The Bush-Clinton Years

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, learners analyze a political cartoon about political dynasties and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Tooning into the Candidates, Hillary Clinton

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about Hillary Clinton and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Money and Politics, A History Lesson

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events activity, students analyze a political cartoon about campaign finance in America and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: A Racist Tirade Spotlights the N-Word

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about racial epithets and 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: The Right to Know vs. Government Secrecy

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about government secrecy and 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: Sisyphusian Auto Bailouts

For Students 8th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about auto bailouts and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Liberty vs. Security

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about civil liberties and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Study Guide for the 2009 Richard Gray Visual Arts Lecturer: Jules Feiffer

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the cartoons of Jules Feiffer and the art genre to then create their own comic book-style spread. In this cartoon art lesson, students read about the work of Feiffer and identify the techniques of the art. Students...
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Images of Immigration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers evaluate how images of immigrants reflected political and social attitudes toward them in the United States. They interpret visual images in the context of historical and political developments.
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New York State Testing Program: English Language Arts Listening Test Selection Grade 7

For Students 7th
Although labeled as a listening test, no questions accompany Jim Davis’ "Flight of Fancy," a short essay in which he describes how he came to be a cartoonist and the creator of Garfield. However, the article is interesting and crafting...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Obama Baggage

For Students 9th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, learners analyze a political cartoon about President Obama and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Weighty Matters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze political cartoons, and write short paragraphs explaining the cartoon's meaning and the cartoonist's point-of-view.
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Canada's Press: Making a Historical Newspaper

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars examine several colonial-era editorial cartoons. They evaluate the effectiveness of the techniques the cartoonists used to display their messages and share one editorial cartoon with the class emphasising what message has...
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Cartoons in the Classroom: Castrophe Cartoons

For Students 9th - 12th
For this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about catastrophes. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.