Creating cartoons
Teacher Jan Clark
| Year
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Level
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Duration
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| 7-8
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4
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3 weeks
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| Achievement Objective Being Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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| Viewing
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Identify a specific audience for which a cartoon is intended and demonstrate an understanding of how verbal and visual features are combined for a specific purpose in a cartoon.
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| Presenting
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Students create their own cartoons aimed at a specific audience and with a specific purpose using computer art as the presenting medium.
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| Processes
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| Thinking Critically
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Identify and discuss ways in which verbal and visual features are used and combined in cartoons.
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| Exploring Language
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Identify important features of the verbal and visual language of cartoons and use them to create particular meanings and effects.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Poetic Writing
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Pupils able to write a simple story that can be expressed in a comic strip.
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Interpersonal Listening
Interpersonal Speaking
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Pupils will listen and interact with others in a group situation.
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Teacher background reading
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Prior to starting the unit the teachers and students will need to gather the following support materials.
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Cartoons and comic strips, that children will readily understand, clipped from newspapers/magazines.
Webtoon Family Cartoons
- Caricatures and photographs of well known celebrities cut from magazines and newspaper.
- Books of cartoons or comic strips that students may have at home.
Setting the Objectives
Discuss the objectives of the unit with the class. ie.
- understanding how cartoons are created,
- knowing who they are intended for,
- creating a cartoon of their own,
- using the computer as a tool to create cartoons.
Clip cartoons and comic strips from newspapers and magazines. Discuss children's favourite cartoon characters. Determine prior knowledge - what they already know about cartoons (group brainstorm). Students could participate in setting up rubrics for peer and self assessment at this stage.
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Learning task 3
Assessment
- Students are to create their own cartoon to retell a joke. Recreate their cartoon using computer technology.
- Students to create their own comic strip to tell a story about an embarrassing incident or a well known fairy tale with a twist. The comic strip will need to be aimed at children
self_assessment (RTF 260KB)
assessment (RTF 12KB)
Resources
Print
- School Journal Part 4 No 2 1981 In the world of Footrot Flats by J Thompson.
- Bates, Dianne. The funniest cartoons and comics. (Rigby Publications)
Electronic
