Use the chart below to answer the following: Look at the cartoon below. Explain how the point of view expressed in the cartoon contrasts with the intent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Include details to support your answer. Write your answer in the answer box below.

The following 9 Anchor Papers represent a range of score points and are used in conjunction with the rubrics to assess student responses.

Score for Anchor Paper #1: Rubric Score 1

Annotation: This response is related to the question but shows only minimal knowledge of gender discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A fragment of a basic idea is presented (harder for women to get to the top of a business), but that idea is incomplete.

Score for Anchor Paper #2: Rubric Score 1

Annotation: This response is related to the question but shows only minimal knowledge of gender discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Basic ideas are attempted (separating the men from the women, woman being discriminated against based on gender), but the fragments of ideas are incomplete.

Score for Anchor Paper #3: Rubric Score 2

Annotation: This response shows knowledge of gender discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A complete key idea is provided (the Civil Rights Act...contrasts with the cartoon's view point of women having harder times getting career opportunities).

Score for Anchor Paper #4: Rubric Score 2

Annotation: This response shows knowledge of gender discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Basic key ideas are presented (women being given a way to the top but it's much harder than the man's, the intentions of the Act are to give both men and women an "elevator") and provided with a little support (based on what they can do, not on the fact that they are male or female).

Score for Anchor Paper #5: Rubric Score 2

Annotation: This response shows knowledge of gender discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Key ideas (the government is saying that the women get the same treatment as men, the stairs depict that it is harder to reach level 43 career opportunities for women) are provided with a little support (women have to try harder to get to the same place, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not what it seems).

Score for Anchor Paper #6: Rubric Score 3

Annotation: This response shows some understanding of gender discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Concepts are accurate and supported (the Act...intended to forbid discrimination, this cartoon expresses how hard it is for women to make progress in their careers), and some evidence of higher order thinking skills is demonstrated by the effective use of relevant example (unequal pay for equal work) and application of analysis and evaluation (expecting to find the same easy progress, stairs show the struggle involved because of her gender).

Score for Anchor Paper #7: Rubric Score 3

Annotation: This response shows some understanding of gender discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Accurate concepts are supported (women are still having a hard time with career opportunities, this represents discrimination), and the application of related concepts (make women and minorities equal to white males) and evaluation (the cartoonist does not think the legislation was effective) provide some evidence of higher order thinking skills.

Score for Anchor Paper #8: Rubric Score 4

Annotation: This response shows understanding of gender discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Concepts are accurate and well supported (this violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it involves discrimination towards females in employment), and powerful evidence of higher order thinking skills is demonstrated by insightful and integrated application of analysis and evaluation (this gives the men an unfair advantage), related concepts (women and minorities are fighting for equal rights), use of relevant example (blacks and women may now vote), and recognition of evolving contemporary conditions (this is a delicate subject in today's United States, although laws have improved situations...there is still more work to be done).

Score for Anchor Paper #9: Rubric Score 4

Annotation: This response shows understanding of gender discrimination and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Accurate concepts are well supported and integrated (discriminating against women, two separate elevators, men are reaching jobs more easily than women). The response shows powerful evidence of higher order thinking skills by application of relevant governmental concepts (unconstitutional), extensive analysis and evaluation (separate elevators [are] unconstitutional because there is now no such thing as "separate but equal," it is much easier and faster to go on an elevator to the 43rd floor than it would be to walk), and cause and effect reasoning (the workplace is trying to drive women away by making them do a lot more work than men to receive the same job).

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