Social and political cartoon satire
Teacher Vince MacDonald
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LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 10
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4-6
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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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Respond to and interpret various meanings, ideas and effects describing how both verbal and visual features are combined for different purposes.
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| Presenting
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Use and combine a variety of verbal, visual and dramatic features to communicate information, ideas or narrative or other messages to different audiences.
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| Processes
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| Visual Language: Exploring Language
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Use appropriate terminology, describe the conventions of verbal and visual language in social and political cartoons and use them to create particular effects.
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| Visual Language: Thinking Critically
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Identify and analyse the effects of combining verbal and visual features as they relate to social and political cartoons.
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| Visual Language: Processing Information
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Select and interpret information from visual texts and present it effectively.
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| Written Language: Exploring language
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Using appropriate terminology, describe, discuss, analyse and apply the distinctive conventions, structures and language features relating to social/political cartoons.
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| Written Language: Processing information
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Using appropriate technologies, retrieve, select and interpret information from a variety of sources and present accurate and coherent information for the purpose of social and political cartoon analysis.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Close Reading
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Discuss and analyse language, meaning and ideas in a range of contemporary and historical contexts taking account of purpose, audience and other texts.
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| NCEA Link
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| Assessment:
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Formative
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| Achievement Standard:
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AS90057 (English 1.6): Read and understand unfamiliar texts.
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| Achievement Standard:
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AS90059 (English 1.8): Produce a media or dramatic presentation .
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Teacher background reading
Introduction
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Links for students
Collaborative online projects:
-
The Joke's On ....
Students will create a political cartoon based *on what they are studying or a current event. *The cartoons can be drawn and scanned or created with a computer drawing program and e-mailed to Susan Silverman, project coordinator.
Assessment
Summative assessment is two-fold. First assessment is by way of students producing their own socio-political cartoon.
Task 1: To create a cartoon that visually communicates to a "reader" aspects of characters or themes from any social or political event. This could be based on culture, race, gender, education, etc. Use of symbols is a very powerful method of communicating your ideas - try to incorporate them into your work. Quotations attributed to persons being represented can aid your presentation. A note on visual and language techniques: meaningful choice of colours, shape, layout, patterns, subject matter and lettering symbolism is important! For example, dark, moody, subdued colours for tragedy, political intrigue, domestic violence and unemployment. Use proper selection of symbols to match the subject matter and so on.
Task 2:
viewing (RTF 5KB)
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assessment (RTF 6KB)
Assessment Resource Bank Activities
relevant to the assessment focus for this unit:
- VL4081 "Underbelly
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- VL4137 "Cartoons About Marijuana
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Resources
Electronic
