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Activity: Using Posters to Understand Reasons to Vote

2. Students will examine several websites and create a poster outlining reasons to vote.

The poster will include a graphic and a quote from a president or other political figure that pertains to the theme.

For example...

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. Louis Brandeis (c.1936)

Every voter ought not merely to vote, but to vote under the inspiration of a high purpose to serve a nation. Calvin Coolidge (1924)

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