Editorial Cartoons

 I do believe that "two heads are better than one," so the good news is you get    to work with a partner.

1. You will be connecting the verbal arguments presented within a debate topic to an editorial cartoon that expresses the same message, but in the form of an image .

2. Each team of two will have a PRO person and a CON person.

3. Go to the website Debate Topics for Juniors listed below, scroll through the topics, and select three or four to click on: scan the content of each.

4. Come to an agreement on which topic you will choose to match up with two political cartoons.

5. One of you will make a list of the main ideas on the PRO side and the other partner will do the CON.

6. Now that you each have your list of arguments, go to the political cartoon websites listed below and search for images that represent your topic, both PRO and CON.

It is important that you understand the issues associated with your topic, as you may find editorial cartoons that fit your choice under more than one search word.

7. Using your lists of main ideas, select a cartoon that best represents the PRO side of the issue and another cartoon that represents the CON side.

8. Go to "It's No Laughing Matter" to do the interactive activity for analyzing political cartoons. Make it a competition between you and your partner! Who can get the most right answers.

9. Now that you're wiser about the analysis part, complete the cartoon analysis worksheet. Use the terminology from the online activity to specifically express  how the artists conveyed the main ideas in the two cartoons you and your partner chose.

10. It is time for you and your partner to each create your own political cartoons! Pick a topic you feel strongly about, choose an audience you want to persuade, and decide what you want the readers to think after they have seen your cartoon. You may use any technology you have available to you to create your image including Keynote, Google Images, Comic Life, your own photographs, etc.. The final product will be one page that is saved on your laptop and presented to the class.

Note: You may want to preview the resource "How to Create An Editorial Cartoon on the Computer" in the Conclusion section of the WebQuest. For those of you who have additional functions on your home computers, this might be something you could use to create your cartoon.