<aside> ⌛ Estimated student time on platform: 60 minutes

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<aside> 🗣 Lesson host: Lalo Alcaraz

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<aside> 1️⃣ Difficulty level: 4 (for high school and higher education)

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<aside> 🗒️ Assessments: 13

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<aside> 🗒️ Standards: Coming soon!

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Learning objectives:

• I can identify the primary elements of an editorial cartoon and explain how they work together to express an opinion.
• I can summarize how editorial cartoons have held people in power accountable.
• I can distinguish between functional and harmful representations of groups in political cartoons.
• I can analyze and interpret an editorial cartoon.
• I can describe why diverse voices and perspectives are important in editorial cartooning.
• I can explain how modern forms of graphic political expression compare with editorial cartoons.

Essential questions:

• What makes political cartoons an effective and powerful form of expression? Why do they elicit strong responses, including from those in power?
• What can a cartoon do or express that text cannot? What can a cartoon/drawing express that a photo cannot?
• Are memes modern-day editorial cartoons — or are they different?
• How can graphic political expression influence civic discourse and engagement?

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