Overall Expectations: Percieving and Responsing Unit
- create a visual that conveys a social, political, or environmental issue/statement/ message (PR11.2)
Specific Expectations:
Students will be expected to:
- Challenge students to create a political cartoon that deals with farming and fishing on PEI. Have them list the challenges that exist. Have them focus on one of the issues and create a cartoon around it.
- Ask students to create an image related to drinking and driving. Have them write down what they want their audience to know and feel when they look at their visual messages. Then have them decide what media would best convey their messages. Have students plan out their compositions in their workbooks. When their work is completed, have them present their visual messages to the class.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Alcohol on the Web
- Art Exchange
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- First Person
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Political Cartoons
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Remixing Media
- The Price of Happiness
- There’s No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting