Political Cartoons
The other big type of graphics we create for the newspaper are Political Cartoons.
What are Political Cartoons?
https://www.britannica.com/topic/political-cartoon
On your Google Site please create a new subpage called Political Cartoons and answer the following questions:
1. What is a political cartoon?
2. Where do most political cartoons appear in a newspaper?
3. What are the usual topics for political cartoons?
4. Are political cartoons based in facts?
5. What is the goal of a political cartoon, according to the website?
Now go to this website:
https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/analyzing-political-cartoons
Answer the following questions:
6. What are the five persuasive techniques that cartoonists use in their work? In a sentence or two, explain the technique in your own words.
7. List the five questions you should use to analyze cartoons?
Now go here to learn how to plan and create a political cartoon:
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Political-Cartoon
8. List the suggested steps to PLAN a cartoon.
9. List the suggested steps to CREATE the cartoon
Now let's go look at a few cartoons.
10. What were some of the topics you saw as you clicked through these cartoons?
11. List some symbols you saw as you looked through these.
12. Share a screen shot of THREE of these cartoons and answer the following questions about them?
a. What issue is this political cartoon about?
b. What is the cartoonist's opinion on this issue?
c. What other opinion can you imagine another person having on this issue?
d. Did you find the cartoon persuasive? Why or why not?
e. What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
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