The following unit of inquiry introduces you to Liza Donnelly's cartoons. As you study her cartoons, you are asked to identify key stylistic features of cartoons and discuss how Donnelly uses her cartooning to spread awareness about gender issue and call on societal change. After analysing these cartoons in groups, you will write a group Paper 1 response to one of her cartoons that you have chosen. After receiving feedback on group work, you will take a Paper 1 exam on a cartoon. This worksheet should take about 11 lessons of 50 minutes to complete. 

Unit planner
1. Write the caption
2. The cartoonist's intent
3. Key features of cartoons
4. A group response
5. Paper 1 on a cartoon
6. Paper 1 rewrite and reflection

ATLs

Four of the six worksheets in this unit are collaborative docs. By sharing docs, you are encouraged to build collaboration skills, one of the IB's approaches to learning. By creating shared notes, you are building a community of learners in which everyone is dependent on everyone and weaker students can learn from stronger students. 

Assessment

(Political) are great stimulus texts for an individual oral because it's easy to find a collection of 10 or more for your 'body of work' (BOW) by the same artist. Cartoons are often topical and comment critically on global issues. See this example IO.

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