• Content Standards

• CA 1

  Speaking and writing standard English ( including grammar----)

  CA 5

  Comprehending and evaluating the content and artistic aspects of oral and visual presentations

• Performance Standards
• • 1.5 comprehend and evaluate written, visual and oral presentations and works

Analyze a political cartoon and determine the subject, verb or verbs and object of each. Using this information, write a sentence conveying the cartoon's theme. More than one sentence structure interpretation can be made from many cartoons.

Show this cartoon on an overhead projector either from the web site or from a copy you have made. Help students analyze the two characters. Which would be the subject? What could be an action verb in each case? Actually, either one could be the subject ---depending on how one wanted to word the sentence. John Q Public could be the subject if referring to "the public elected Truman as the champ" or Truman could be the subject if referring to "President Truman was elected the new champion by John Q Public"

Students work in pairs. You may use political cartoons of your choice depicting recent events or use the ones selected below:

Students view the following cartoons and complete the above objective (can assign different cartoons to each pair or have students all do the same cartoons)

• Upset Cart
• Down by the Station
• Out of My Way Mister
• President Goes into Training for Western Trip
• Little White Lies
• You know I am from Missouri
• Love My Balcony
• Each President added something

Advanced Technology: Students copy and paste cartoons into electronic files such as hyper studio and then type their sentences, color coding the subjects, action verbs and objects.

Minimum Technology: Download cartoons and print the ones used by students. Students mount these on construction paper or tag board and type their sentence on the word processor to print and paste below the cartoon.