Social 9 Winter2020/Unit 4

Political Cartoon Project: Consumerism and Quality of Life

Your task is to create your own political cartoon. Like professional cartoonists, your cartoon needs to convey a message surrounding Consumerism.

Using the planning sheets provided, you need to plan out your cartoon; this planning chart will be submitted with your cartoon and will help explain the message that you wish to send with your cartoon.

When creating your cartoon, you need to include some of the elements of political cartoons that we discussed in class: symbols, exaggeration, irony, captioning and labelling, and analogy. Since this is a vessel to convey your opinion on an issue that is important to you, your cartoon needs to show effort and care (i.e. neat and coloured).

The five elements of a political cartoon: Symbols: Using an object to stand for an idea Exaggeration: Overstating or magnifying a problem or a physical feature or habit Irony: The difference between the way things are and the way things should be or the

way things are expected to be Captioning and Labelling: Used for clarity and emphasis Analogy: A comparison between two unlike things that share some characteristics

Due: Thursday, June 11, 2020 via Google Classroom by 10 pm

Social 9 Winter2020/Unit 4

Rubric for Political CartoonName:

Criteria Excellent(5)

Good (4)

Fair (3)

Poor (2)

Missing(1)

Factual More than five Five separate Five facts are Fewer than No facts are information separate facts

are facts are included in the five facts are included in

included in the included in the cartoon. included in the the cartoon. cartoon. cartoon. cartoon.

Accuracy All facts are accurate.

Facts are accurate with

Facts are accurate with no

The cartoon has at least one

The cartoon contains more

no more than one minor error.

more than two minor errors.

major error or three minor errors.

than two major errors or more than three minor errors.

Organization All information is well organized

Information is well organized

Information is well organized

Information is poorly

Information is disorganized

and arranged with no more with no more organized with and difficult logically. than one minor than two errors. more than to read.

error. three errors. Message The message to

the viewers is clear and strong. It is easy for the viewer to

The message to the viewer is clear. It is easy for the viewer to

The message to the viewer is clear. It is not a strong message

The message is unclear or weak. It is difficult for the viewer to

No message is given to the viewer.

understand the understand the understand the message. message. point.

Presentation The illustration The The illustration The The is drawn neatly with excellent details. It is free from smudges. The caption and the title are written neatly and fully explain the picture.

illustration is drawn neatly with good details. The caption and the title summarize the picture. The caption and title are neatly written.

is drawn neatly. A caption and title identify the subject of the picture. The caption and the title are printed clearly.

illustration is drawn poorly. There are few details. The caption and the title do not identify or explain the picture. The caption and title are not

illustration is missing. The title or caption is missing.

written neatly.

Total: /25

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