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Creating Impactful Political Cartoons: Key Elements and Current Topics

Political cartoons serve as a powerful medium for social commentary, encapsulating opinions on current issues. Essential components include relevance to a current topic, the use of symbolism, and a clear opinion or critique. Common symbols like the elephant for the Republican Party and the donkey for the Democratic Party convey complex political ideas succinctly. Students will collaborate in groups to ideate and draft a political cartoon that meets these criteria, with topics ranging from national debt to same-sex marriage laws. The final product will be a polished cartoon reflecting insightful commentary.

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Creating Impactful Political Cartoons: Key Elements and Current Topics

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  1. Political Cartoons

  2. What should a Political Cartoon have? • It should be about a current topic • It should use symbolism • It should express an opinion or a commentary on that issue.

  3. Understood symbols

  4. Elephant = Republican partyand so does “GOP”

  5. Donkey = Democratic Party

  6. Uncle Sam = United States

  7. Holiday Related

  8. Popular Culture

  9. Well known images

  10. Is there a difference?

  11. Other

  12. Assignment In groups no larger than 3 come up with an idea for a political cartoon and make a rough draft. Make sure you have the following: 1. A current topic 2. Symbolism 3. A clearly expressed opinion or commentary Let others look at the rough draft to make sure it has the three requirements. Now make a finished copy of your cartoon and turn in both the rough and finished versions

  13. Topics • National debt or deficit spending • Raising minimum wage • Division within government • Same sex marriage laws

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