{"id":3454,"date":"2015-04-25T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:54:00","slug":"design-a-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/display-work\/design-a-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Design a Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a homework exercise, get students to design a political cartoon to illustrate one key aspect of the topic from either a negative or a positive perspective. No words allowed.<\/p>\n<p>In a subsequent lesson, the pictures are swapped around and each student answers the question &#8220;What is the message of this cartoon?&#8221; using the framework &#8220;I think a message of this cartoon is&#8230;the cartoonist gets this message across by showing&#8230;.which I think from my background knowledge represents&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking it further<\/strong>: Prior to students starting work on their cartoons &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Show them a range of famous cartoons by artists like David Low, ideally from topics they have studied already (this is a good revision exercise in itself).<\/li>\n<li>Brainstorm the meaning of different symbols and idioms. Encourage the students to incorporate some of these into their cartoons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3_OPTIONAL_Cartoon_Skills.doc\">Cartoon Skills Template: Idioms, Personifications, Colours<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a homework exercise, get students to design a political cartoon to illustrate one key aspect of the topic from either a negative or a positive perspective. No words allowed. In a subsequent lesson, the pictures are swapped around and each student answers the question &#8220;What is the message of this cartoon?&#8221; using the framework&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/display-work\/design-a-cartoon\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":3342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[194,195,199,212],"tags":[229,246],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4_Design_Cartoon.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-TI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454"}],"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=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}