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   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (11) 15 :
15. Analyze digital texts and evaluate their effectiveness in terms of subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
[ELA2021] (11) 6 :
6. Analyze a text's explicit and implicit meanings to make inferences about its theme and determine the author's purpose.
[ELA2021] (11) -4 :
R4. Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically.
[ELA2021] (11) 1 :
1. Read, analyze, and evaluate complex literary and informational texts written from various points of view and cultural perspectives, with an emphasis on works of American literature.
Subject: English Language Arts (11)
Title: Flipping Out Over Cartoons: Rhetorical Analysis of Editorial Cartoons
Description:

In this learning activity, students will focus on the rhetorical analysis of visual texts to determine an author's purpose and message. First, students will view a video on analyzing political or editorial cartoons. By identifying and analyzing labels, symbols, exaggeration, irony, analogy, and argument, students will be able to infer the artist's/author's intended message of the editorial cartoon. Then, students will practice analyzing other cartoons with the same process utilizing the tech tool Flipgrid (from Common Sense Education:  Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Each grid is effectively a message board where teachers can pose a question, and their students can post 90-second video responses that appear in a tiled "grid" display.)

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.




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