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Topic: Politics and the Media
Type: Interactive website
Years: 8 - 12
Key Curriculum Links:
Time, Continuity and Change; Culture; Natural and Social Systems; Investigation, Communication and Participation
Activity 1: Australia Day 2004 Cartoon Perspectives
In this activity students investigate sixteen different 2004 Australia Day cartoons. They are asked to analyse the focus, style, attitude, mood, target, symbolism, caricature and scale of each one by selecting from a range of clickable responses. They can then access and print a summary of their responses to these cartoons in preparation for a class discussion and a class synthesis exercise.
Activity 2: Interview a cartoonist
In this activity students can interview Geoff Pryor, the long-standing political cartoonist from the Canberra Times by selecting Pryor's responses to a long list of questions.
>CLICK HERE TO LAUNCH THE FLASH INTERACTIVE
To access the HTML version of the interactive click here, or to view the transcript of the interview with Geoff Pryor, click here.
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