May 17/ 18, 2021

 New Media 10:

1) Please complete your Operation Debrief to be submitted next class. 

2) EDITORIAL/ POLITICAL CARTOON PRACTICE

1.  Choose a topic that you want to explore.

2.  Google search [topic] political cartoon and choose one image.

3.  On a sheet of paper, go through the 3 steps of reading a political cartoon. Keep your notes, as you’ll need it for the homestudy task. 

a.  Step 1: Label (pt form)

b.  Step 2: Context & Topic 

c.  Step 3: Connect topic/ context to labels (message)

YOUR NOTES CAN BE DIGITAL (E.G. NOTES APP OR WORD DOC) OR ON PAPER

Literature 10:

Please continue to work through the Steps listed on your "Seen and Un-Silenced" project. Due date is 11:59PM on May 21st (Pro-D Friday).

Step 2 (research): let's say 5-10 facts. 

Editor's Letter: 0.5 - 1 pg.

Editor Blurbs (before each story): try to keep this to 100 words or so - very brief!

Editor Blurb:

John Hayden's poem "Frederick Douglass" pays homage to the emancipated slave we studied at the start of the course. It's argument towards the end is that one's legacy can live on beyond material items like statues - rather, sometimes our monuments are the people who live on after us. This is particularly relevant to the topic of African-American writers because...