Goals & Objectives
Goal: 1) Students will understand how political strength is dependent on a voter’s political landscape.
Objective: 1) Analyze the affect a Third Party can have on an election.
2) Evaluate the breakdown of a Party when a Third Party Candidate emerges.
Objective: 1) Analyze the affect a Third Party can have on an election.
2) Evaluate the breakdown of a Party when a Third Party Candidate emerges.
California State Content Standards12.6.2 -- Discuss the history of the nomination process for presidential candidates and the increasing importance of primaries in general elections.
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Common Core Literacy StandardsW.S.8.) Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and over reliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation
R.S.2.) Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas. |
Driving Historical Question
What are the benefits and drawback of a Two Party System?
Lesson Introduction ‖ Time: 5 min
We will start with a reminder of the previous lecture and look at the Comic from that slide, the comic of an Elephant being divided by a Bullmoose equaling a Donkey’s victory. I then show them a second comic of a Donkey and Elephant, with a bandaged eye, looking over at a grinning Bullmoose. Both of these comics present students with an idea of the conflict that will be seen in our activity.
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Vocabulary ‖ Time: --
GOP, Primary, Electoral Vote, Convention, Nomination
Content Delivery ‖ Time: 5 min
This assignment will allow students to look at various political cartoons and newspapers from the 1912 Election between Wilson, Taft, and returning Roosevelt. Here, history provides us with a prime example of a Third Party candidate splitting votes from the dominate party. Using comics, students will be able to study this divide in the Republican Party while looking at it from a cultural lens. The Newspapers offer students more direct information about the events and decisions of these candidates throughout the process.
The class is then divided into four groups and given a folder. Each folder has two new political comics and two newspaper sheets in it for the group to view and discuss. While I am passing out worksheets for the students to fill out during this activity, I pose to them a question. “What is the drawback of a Two-Party System in this election?” This draws the class back to a topic from the lecture, that America has often been dominated by two parties with varied instances of different parties in the fray. What this activity will demonstrate about political parties is that when a Third Party emerges, they will often steal votes from the dominate party to which they are most aligned.
The class is then divided into four groups and given a folder. Each folder has two new political comics and two newspaper sheets in it for the group to view and discuss. While I am passing out worksheets for the students to fill out during this activity, I pose to them a question. “What is the drawback of a Two-Party System in this election?” This draws the class back to a topic from the lecture, that America has often been dominated by two parties with varied instances of different parties in the fray. What this activity will demonstrate about political parties is that when a Third Party emerges, they will often steal votes from the dominate party to which they are most aligned.
Student Engagement ‖ Time: 30
Students will pass around the sheets, breakdown what they see, and write down a description on their worksheet. They will record what they see or read (people, characters, organizations), what is happening in the comic or news article, and a description of its meaning/significance.
Analysis Tools
Cartoon Analysis Worksheet Primary Source Analysis Tool Newspapers from the Library of Congress El Paso herald., June 20, 1912, Image 1 New-York tribune., November 06, 1912, Image 1 |
Lesson Closure ‖ Time: 10 minutes
The last part of class will be a whole class discussion, as students from each group list-off things they saw and thought about while going through the Primary Source Folders. I will write down on the board key points they bring up or ask about so that everyone can see them and write them down on their worksheets.
Assessments
This Lesson is a Formative, Progress-Monitoring, assessment for my Unit Plan. Upon completion of the worksheet, they will all earn a stamp on their paper and organize it into their Unit folder. Should they not complete the assignment in time, they may still finish it for the Unit folder and earn half credit.
AccommodationsThis Primary Source lesson uses two image sources and two written sources, offering a bend of materials for students to study. English Learners have tended to flourish with visual examples, while both they and Striving Readers still need to practice processing English words in writing. Instead of doing one or the other, I incorporated both into this lesson. One additional accommodation I could make would be to make deliberate student pairs, making sure that each group that holds one of these students also has student that is either a good mentor or has similar needs but is much further along. Should this not be prudent, I can also have those student focused in one or two groups, mixed with other students of course, and then deliver more of my attention to their efforts so that I may help them analyze the sources properly.
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ResourcesPrintouts of Two Comics
Library of Congress Website Archives: Printouts of Two News Papers,
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