Write five questions you have about the cartoon, and then categorize your questions into one of the following categories:
1. why would he push over a bolder that looks like the top of the white house?
2. why does the officer have the word voter on his sleeve?
3. why is the friend and elephant?
4. why did he say whoo wee, we're heroes man, gimme five?
5.why does his shirt say don't tread on me with the snake?
- Cartoon's Message
- 1, 4
- Subject of the Cartoon
- 3
- Use of Images or Artistic Techniques
- 2, 5
2. Review the following guide to analyzing political cartoons: http://w
Post a summary of the steps from this site to your blog.
Let your eyes "float" over the cartoon.Discover the main focus of the cartoon. Follow the natural flow of the cartoon. Discover what is interacting with the main focus of the cartoon. Find out who this cartoon is directed to. Understand what the cartoon is standing for. Look for the usual stuff you find in political cartoons, such as Uncle Same an Elephant, or a Donkey. Look for the other humorous things within the cartoons.
3. Go to the following link: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/political-cartoon/model.html
Complete the Practice and Test Yourself. Provide an explanation on your blog post about each of the five techniques that political cartoonists use to make their point
The artist uses SYMBOLISM, EXAGGERATION, LABELING, ANALOGY, and IRONY. Irony is usually the saying at the bottom of the page. It helps the viewer understand it better. Analogy is the whole picture itself. Its what the whole picture is meant to say to the viewer. Labeling is usually used to make it clear that the picture isn't just of a old broken down school house. Its meant to say something more that. Exaggeration is used for the artist to say how big of a problem it is for them. Symbolism is used to show the problem as a whole.
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