This is your Continuous Assessment Task please note the following dates:
- Complete your research and be ready for a class discussion on Friday 5 June (We will focus on the issues raised under the heading “Overarching Questions” in the CAT document and I expect you to refer to some of the sources and the cartoons you have chosen to research as illustrative materials to support your views.)
- Prepare your oral presentation for Wednesday 10 June (Read the brief carefully.)
- We will write the controlled essay on Monday 15 June
Click on the link below to open an electronic copy of the CAT document
Here is a presentation about discursive essays which I think will be worth looking at as preparation for the controlled writing task.
When analysing a cartoon you can look especially for the following techniques:
Context – What happened that led to the cartoon and what is it about?
Caricature – Distorting an image or portraying something in an exaggerated or unnatural way
Exaggeration- Hyperbole or enlargement to draw attention to the target or message or to create humour
Symbolism – Use of typical symbols e.g. hammer and sickle for communists, face mask for COVID etc.
Association – Linking a person, organization or idea to another by placing in proximity e.g. positioning a politician with criminals
Labeling – Can either be direct or via an element in the cartoon e.g. logo on a truck or words on a placard carried by a character
Non-verbal cues e.g. movement, facial expressions, reactions of figures in the cartoon, body language or body posture and position
Contrasts – Balancing opposites against each other to emphasize a difference
Bathos – Building up intensity over several frames then making the point by anti-climax in the final frame
Verbal script – Look at how the verbal and non-verbal elements support each other
Pallette – Use of colour for emotional or symbolic effect