Political Cartoons: Literacy

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Readers decode and deconstruct political cartoons to heighten critical thinking, extra-textual literacy, and making meaning from symbolism and metaphor. A compatible activity to use in English class when your 8th or 11th graders are studying political cartoons in American history.

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critical thinking, metaphors, figurative language, literary devices, decoding, symbolism, political cartoons