Being Assessed Learning Outcomes Viewing Respond to and interpret various meanings, ideas and effects describing how both verbal and visual features are combined for different purposes. Presenting Use and combine a variety of verbal, visual and dramatic features to communicate information, ideas or narrative or other messages to different audiences. Exploring Language Use appropriate terminology, describe the conventions of verbal and visual language in social and political cartoons and use them to create particular effects. Other Achievement Objectives Learning Outcomes Close Reading Discuss and analyse language, meaning and ideas in a range of contemporary and historical contexts taking account of purpose, audience and other texts. Summative assessment is two-fold.
First assessment is by way of students producing their own socio-political cartoon.
This could be based on culture, race, gender, education, etc. Use of symbols is a very powerful method of communicating your ideas - try to incorporate them into your work. Quotations attributed to persons being represented can aid your presentation. For example, dark, moody, subdued colours for tragedy, political intrigue, domestic violence and unemployment. Use proper selection of symbols to match the subject matter and so on.