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The Dirksen Congressional Center WebsiteThe Dirksen Congressional Center Website
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9th - 10th
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The Dirksen Congressional Center

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An effective site that provides non-partisan information concerning Congress and its leaders. The website includes CongressLink, up-to-date information on the US Congress; Congress for Kids, an excellent resource for younger students on the American Government; Congress in the Classroom Online, lessons on the House and the Senate; and the Communicator, a web-based newsletter.

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Concepts

editorial cartoons, political cartoons, political parties, abraham lincoln, congress

Additional Tags

capital hill, congressional bills, congressional elections, congressional leaders, congressional schedule, how a bill becomes a law, legislation, legislature, write to congress, abraham lincoln bicentennial, dirksen center, everett dirksen, house of representatives, senate

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RH.6-8.4 RH.11-12.4 RH.11-12.5

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