1. Warm-up  Write about this political cartoon. How does it make you feel and why? What do you think it is about?

2. Political Cartoons: Using OPTIC

3. What are Political Cartoons? Political Cartoon = An illustration or comic strip containing a political or social message that usually relates to current events or people.

4. Where Can I Find One? Internet Newspaper Magazine Textbooks

5. OPTIC The five letters in the word OPTIC (pertaining to the eye) provide a system for remembering the five steps for analyzing a visual. This strategy is designed to help you better understand paintings, photographs, and political cartoons.

6. O bjects are in the cartoon? A garbage can, implying that kids are eating unhealthy food A recliner, perhaps to imply laziness

7. People are in the cartoon? These people are/represent... *Sometimes you will see animals representing people!*

8. Title AND Time period? Sometimes titles won’t be so obvious. What time period would this be?

9. What I nferences can you draw? (infer: to speculate, guess, imply. To conclude from evidence.) Is the artist trying to say that kids have become like this on their own? ?

10. C onclusions can you draw? What does our society think of children? What does society think of their parents? What can you conclude?

11. #1

12. #2