The White Man's Burden Primary Source and Image Analysis

Students will ead The White Man's Burden, answer 10 questions, analyze 10 images, and complete a graphic organizer relating the White Man's Burden to religion, economics, imperialism, racism, and more. For the image analysis, students will pick 10 of 14 images and respond to 7 prompts/tasks. The answers are included where appropriate and this would work for a sub!

Sample questions include:
--Why are the “savages” compared to children? What message does that send to western readers? What message does it send to the Chinese, Filipinos, etc?
--Does Kipling seem to imply the road ahead will be easy or hard? Explain your answer.
--Identify the tone or slant to the poem. Cite evidence from the text to support your answer. 
--Explain in what ways someone from 1899 would support this poem and share its sentiments, and in what ways someone would disagree with it. 
--Define the following terms or explain the meaning of the following phrases.

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