U. S. History

The goal of this lesson is for students to take a look into past presidential propaganda and determine its similarities and differences.

Students will analyze Thomas Nast's Sacred Elephant cartoon from 1884 and relate it to their knowledge of the Garfield/Arthur administration

This lesson will allow advanced middle school or high school students to analyze primary source documents concerning the women's rights movement in the United States to end suffrage and propose a constitutional amendment for the right to vote.

This will introduce units on Modern Terrorism. It will also help increase their awareness, foster collaboration, and practice the skill of chronology.

The Presidential election gives a wonderful opportunity, every four years, to spark student interest in the election process and the candidates involved. The scrapbook project allows the students to work with primary sources and current materials and develop a working knowledge of the electoral process.

This lesson is to examine political symbols and how they have been used and continue to be used in political campaigns. Students will do individual research of memorabilia, posters, and cartoons using books provided as well as the internet.

To assist students in developing analytical skills that will enable them to evaluate primary sources and images such as documents, photographs, political cartoons and posters related to the Lincoln conspirators.

Students will use a graphic organizer to analyze primary sources of Campaign media in three elections.

Students will individually aim to use socio-economic and political data to determine and predict how each swing state will vote in the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election.

Students will choose a presidential candidate and construct a campaign poster and a lapel campaign button in support of that candidate.