How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of supports such as graphic organizers, carefully constructed questions, and collaborative learning, the material is differentiated for learning style.

Concepts

secondary source analysis, primary source analysis, point of view, central ideas, cause and effect, political cartoons

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Additional Tags

classroom support

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Instructional Ideas

• After reading the selection from the lesson have readers draw their own political cartoons 

Classroom Considerations

•  A Vindication of the Rights of Women is a difficult text; therefore, have supports planned for struggling readers
• Consider having participants make a connection to the printed text and find their own political cartoons or video clips
• 12th workshop in a series of 15
  

Pros

• Material is rigorous 

Cons

• Homework for the lesson seems extensive

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.4 RH.6-8.6 RH.6-8.7 RH.6-8.8