Knowledge/Skill Building

🗺️ Framing Categories Calibration

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Content Expertise Collaboration Submission Required

Using political cartoons, courtroom excerpts, map labels, and land sale language, students sort examples into framing categories such as fear, patriotism, inevitability, moral duty, economic promise, and omission. Small groups test whether the categories are clear enough to use consistently, then refine definitions and add one non-example for each category. This creates a class calibration chart for later source collection.

Plan day
Day 20
Duration
75 min
Grouping
Small Group
Steps