Target Audience: High schoolers, ideally following our unit on the Spanish-American War so that the students have context to analyze the political cartoons of this lesson
Content: This lesson will broadly review the Spanish-American War for the students but it will be more specifically covering how to go about analyzing political cartoons. I will give them a set of guided questions and documents that they need to both examine and answer in small groups. This lesson will proceed our unit on the Spanish-American War and will give students the opportunity to grapple with understanding the war from an American prospective and the American view of Cuba at the time.
Procedure: I will briefly review what we have learned in our previous unit by broadly going over the war and its consequences. Next, students will be divided into groups and assigned images to look over and answer questions on the board about. Finally, we will convene as a group and discuss our findings.
Resources:
Image 1: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Judge-2-6-1897.jpg
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Image 3: https://picryl.com/media/the-duty-of-the-hour-to-save-her-not-only-from-spain-but-from-a-worse-fate
How to analyze a political cartoon