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Write! Social Studies
Political Cartoons
Political cartoonists have an uncanny ability to convey a tremendous amount of meaning with an illustration and just a few words. Sometimes the cartoon is biting, sometimes it’s hilarious, often it’s both. In this activity, students plan their political cartoon with a partner, create it and share it with teammates.
Write! Social Studies
MI & Cooperative Learning Activities
Writing is thinking! Get your students writing and thinking about social studies with this collection of ready-to-use writing activities. Students delve deep into social studies issues as they work cooperatively with teammates on activities like writing the correspondence of two historical characters, publishing and sharing political cartoons, discussing and writing about famous historical quotations. Activities incorporate the multiple intelligences. Writing activities are perfect to start the class, introduce a new concept, end the unit, or use as a sponge activity. Book includes 36 cooperative writing activities with ready-to-use reproducible activity pages, and a brief description of dozens of cooperative learning techniques. 140 pages.