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Gerrymandering: How Lines Can Steal Your Vote Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Empower your students to be informed citizens who fight for fair elections with this engaging reading comprehension worksheet on gerrymandering!
Dive into the Unfair Game:

  • Unmask the Tricks: Explore how "cracking," "packing," and other tactics manipulate district boundaries to give one party an unfair advantage.
  • Consequences Uncovered: Discover the real-world impact of gerrymandering, from distorted representation to silenced minority voices and political polarization.
  • Hope on the Horizon: Investigate solutions like independent redistricting commissions and ranked-choice voting that can level the playing field.

Engage Critical Thinking:

  • Primary Source Analysis: Analyze a Supreme Court excerpt to deepen understanding of gerrymandering's impact on democracy.
  • Multiple Choice, True/False, Fill-in-the-Blanks, and Short Answer Questions: Reinforce key learning objectives and encourage active participation.
  • Clear Answer Key: Save valuable time with a complete and easy-to-follow guide.

Align with Curriculum Standards:
This resource meets numerous Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Reading, and Writing, making it a valuable tool for middle and high school social studies or civics classes.

Reading:

  • RI.8.8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
  • RI.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
  • RI.11-12.7: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.

Writing:

  • WHST.6-8.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
  • WHST.9-10.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

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