(Image courtesy of www.patrickmoberg.com)

In honor of the upcoming Presidential Inauguration, I chose this image to present as a bellringer and posed this statement, "Analyze what point, if any, you think the artist is trying to make." My students had some great responses for the obvious. It wasn't until I presented another perspective when I asked them to consider the Pledge of Allegiance:

 "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for all." 

It was only then did my students view the image with different eyes. "Oh, I see, there is no women!" Some questions that generated from our short discussions were, "Have we made enough progress? How many more lines of faces before there will be a female face? Maybe the next one?" Hopefully some tiny seeds were planted because of this image.