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    It’s likely your students have been following the Cats memes and the back and forth banter in the election news.  Memes and cartoons with cats certainly aren’t new.

    Puck Magazine depicting cat cartoon

     https://www.loc.gov/item/2011647599/

    Title

    "Goodness gracious! I must have been dozing!"

    Summary

    Illustration shows President Taft sitting in a rocking chair, tangled in yarn from balls labeled "Conservation, Rail Road Legislation, Postal Savings Tax, Income Tax, [and] Corporation Tax" that have fallen onto the floor and are the playthings of three cats labeled "The House, Senate, [and] The Cabinet" and a dog labeled "The Courts"; one ball of yarn labeled "My Policies" remains in a box shaped like the U.S. Capitol. Theodore Roosevelt is watching, disapprovingly, from a window on the side of the room.

    And finding “cat ladies” throughout history via Library of Congress resources is pretty easy.  Here is a wonderful one that was included in a Picture This  Library of Congress Prints and Photos blog Everything including the Kitchen Sink by Melissa Lindberg which for me rivals the Taylor Swift Instagram Cat Lady photo.

    Women in kitchen holding a cathttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017825299/

    Additional cat photos can be found in the Library of Congress in Free to Use and Reuse: Cats. Also check out the blog post from Minerva’s Kaleidoscope Resources for Kids and Families No "Kitten" Around: Cats in the Library of Congress Collection by Dianne Choie

    And for some great cat discussions in our TPS Teachers Network, put “Cats” in the search box in the upper right.

    I imagine students can come up with some great cat political memes using these resources to kick off a media literacy discussion on how memes and political cartoons are a part of political discourse.

      Cats    Politics    Elections    Memes    Media Literacy  

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    What an engaging discussion topic,   Cheryl Davis , which is a great follow-up to your own post on Finding Presidential Pets - A Timely Post & Webinar and to that of  Neme Alperstein  on Menagerie and Mayhem: Pets Return to the White House!

    Here are some additional resources on Presidential felines:
    Amy Carter with her cat

    What a great idea,   Cheryl Davis! Another great Library resource is the Socks Goes to Washington section of the online exhibition Oliphant's Anthem: Pat Oliphant at the Library of Congress.

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