1.  starter activity
How accurate is this portrayal of US – Soviet relations at the height of the arms race? How can you score maximum marks on cartoon source questions?

2. How to answer source questions on cartoons
GCSE exam skills

3. How to interpret cartoons
When analysing the accuracy of cartoons you need to do 3 things:
Describe what you can see in the cartoon
Relate these visual clues to what was actually happening at the time
Consider how and why the artist might be changing events to influence his audience
Useful website: How to interpret cartoons

4.  Your task
You each will be given a cartoon to analyse. Stick the cartoon onto a sheet of white paper an annotate it with as much factual detail and analysis as possible. When finished, explain to the class how you would go about answering the question, ‘How accurate is this cartoon?’

11.  Your task
Answer the past paper questions for these cartoons. Remember to use the source and your own knowledge to gain maximum marks!
Practice paper