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Herb Block Cartoons on McCarthy and the Red Scare

Directions: In groups, you will analyse the following cartoons. ONE of these cartoons will appear on the assessment.

1. Read any words

2. What is the setting?

3. Do you recognize any people in the cartoon? (can be

specific, like McCarthy, or generic, like a teacher or
a politician)

4. Make note of any objects you think are symbols –

what do they mean? (write their meaning below)

5. How does the cartoon help answer our guiding

question - How did the 2nd red scare impact
American society and government?
1. Read any words
2. What is the setting?

3. Do you recognize any people in the cartoon? (can be

specific, like McCarthy, or generic, like a teacher or a
politician)

4. Make note of any objects you think are symbols –

what do they mean? (write their meaning below)

5. How does the cartoon help answer our guiding

question - How did the 2nd red scare impact
American society and government?

1. Read any words

2. What is the setting?

3. Do you recognize any people in the cartoon? (can be

specific, like McCarthy, or generic, like a teacher or a
politician)

4. Make note of any objects you think are symbols –

what do they mean? (write their meaning below)

5. How does the cartoon help answer our guiding

question - How did the 2nd red scare impact
American society and government?
1. Read any words
2. What is the setting?

3. Do you recognize any people in the cartoon? (can be

specific, like McCarthy, or generic, like a teacher or a
politician)

4. Make note of any objects you think are symbols – what

do they mean? (write their meaning below)

5. How does the cartoon help answer our guiding question -

How did the 2nd red scare impact American society and
government?

1. Read any words

2. What is the setting?

3. Do you recognize any people in the cartoon? (can be

specific, like McCarthy, or generic, like a teacher or a
politician)

4. Make note of any objects you think are symbols – what

do they mean? (write their meaning below)

5. How does the cartoon help answer our guiding question -

How did the 2nd red scare impact American society and
government?