1. Unit 2.1 Review Agenda
How to Analyze Political Cartoons and Primary Documents
World History – the Cold War Bowl
Who was to Blame for the Cold War?

2. What You Should Understand When You Leave Today
How to analyze a political cartoon
How to analyze a primary document
Unit vocabulary definitions
Unit guiding questions

3. How to Analyze a Political Cartoon
First, analyze cartoonist’s persuasive techniques
Symbolism – What symbols are used to represent people and things
Exaggeration – Physical characteristics
Labeling – Making objects or people clear
Analogy - Comparison between two unlike things
Irony – Difference between things as they are and they should be or expected to be
Next, ask yourself these questions?
What issue is this political cartoon about?
What do you think is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
What other opinion can you imagine another person having on this issue?
Did you find this cartoon persuasive? Why or why not?
What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to be more persuasive?

4. How to Analyze a Political Cartoon
Go to YouTube -
Go to Wiki How
Worksheet - n_analysis_worksheet.pdf

5. How to Read a Primary Source Document

6. How to Read a Primary Source Document
YouTube -
Worksheet - n_document_analysis_worksheet.pdf

7. Cold War Bowl Rules Count off – 1 to 35
Everyone gets an index card
First 30 get vocabulary words
Last 5 get guiding questions
Write your word / question down on the card
Keep your card or swap it with a classmate
5 minutes to answer the question – 5 Ws and How
Count off – 1 to 5
Divide into 5 teams

8. Review

9. Quiz Tips How to ace this quiz… Good luck!!
Print and paste the “how to” in these slides for analyzing a political cartoon and a primary source document in your notebooks
Define every term and answer every guiding question and place those answers in your notebooks
Good luck!!