{"id":3448,"date":"2015-03-20T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:55:02","slug":"speech-bubble-postits-onto-paintingsphotoscartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/interpretations\/speech-bubble-postits-onto-paintingsphotoscartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech-bubble PostIts onto paintings \/ photos \/ cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong>: Provide students with a photograph of a\u00a0particular moment in history, then ask them to write speech-bubble PostIt notes to imagine what the\u00a0characters might have been saying to each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking it further<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For cartoons, students have to provide a caption. This works even better if the cartoon has an original caption that it can be compared to (e.g. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/#q=spineless+leaders+of+democracy\">The Spineless Leaders of Democracy<\/a>&#8220;).<\/li>\n<li>Obtain some &#8216;thought bubble&#8217; PostIt notes and add these too. This can highlight the difference between public expression and private opinion.<\/li>\n<li>Give different images to different students. They add one PostIt before passing the picture on to somebody else to develop further. Repeat until all major characters in the picture have &#8216;spoken&#8217; and \/ or &#8216;thought&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Give pairs of students the same picture. The first student\u00a0has to produce a &#8216;dialogue&#8217; designed to\u00a0make one character appear heroic\/a success, and another villainous\/a failure. The second student does the reverse. Compare findings with the class. Which interpretation is more accurate?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another great example from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jivespin\">@jivespin<\/a> which I came across whilst preparing a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/silent-discussion\/\">silent discussion<\/a>&#8216; exercise on Appeasement:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3147\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jivespin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3147\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jivespin-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Great example designed by @jivespin\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great example designed by @jivespin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview: Provide students with a photograph of a\u00a0particular moment in history, then ask them to write speech-bubble PostIt notes to imagine what the\u00a0characters might have been saying to each other. Taking it further: For cartoons, students have to provide a caption. This works even better if the cartoon has an original caption that it can&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/interpretations\/speech-bubble-postits-onto-paintingsphotoscartoons\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[199,205,212],"tags":[307,315,334],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-TC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}