Lesson Plan Format

NAME: Benjamin Rogaczewski

Lesson Title: Political Cartoons
# Students: 14
Learning Goal:
(Content
Standard/Common
Core)
Target Goal or Skill:
Essential Question(s):
Topical question(s):

Instructional
Objective(s):
Assessment
(Criteria / Look Fors/
Performance Tasks)

Grade level: 9 Total Time: 52 mins

9-10.5 RH

Read/analyze political cartoons, deciphering the different views

presented.
What role do politics play in our lives?
How do cartoons show an opinion?
How important are political cartoons to our world?
Why does the media use political cartoons?
SWAT: read and understand a political cartoon.
Formative Assessment:
--Discussion
Summative Assessment:
--Exit Slip

Disabilities/Diverse
Needs Represented
Student
Accommodations and/or
Modifications
Instructional Procedures
(including specific times)
Introduction:
(including motivational
hook where applicable)

2 ELL Students

--One-on-one check in with students (proximity)

--Vocab sheet with common definitions

Hook: Presidential Election 2016, digestible means of current

events.
Prezi presentation:
Introduction slides: 10 mins.
Analysis and Example Slides: 15 mins.

Learning Activities:
Group Activity: 5-6 mins.
Come Together & Discussion: 14 mins.
Exit Slip: 5-6 mins.

Closure:

Language Demands:
Function
Vocabulary
Syntax
Discourse

General academic vocabulary (define, apply, analyze)

Subject specific vocabulary (persuasive strategies, frame, cartoon)
Discussion, interaction between teachers and students

5 Questions (Blooms or
DOK)

1. Can you list the three persuasive strategies of political cartoons?

2. How can you persuade someone with a political cartoon?
3. What is the main idea of this particular cartoon?
4. Can you explain what is happening in this cartoon?
5. How would you summarize this cartoonists opinion?

Curriculum (APA)
e.g.
Investigations in
Number, Data, and
Space. (2012).
Pearson.

Materials

Notes

Bill of Rights and Preamble

--Discussion of free speech through editorial cartoons

Prezi, Projector, Internet, Copies of Handouts, Laser Pointer