A resource for teachers teaching Socials 11 (or History 12) to help scaffold the difficult task of interpreting political cartoons in a more student-friendly way by breaking the task down into parts/steps.

1. Analyzing
Political Cartoons
• What I see
• What it means (metaphors?)
• How it connects to the bigger historical theme
J. Marshall 2014

2. Remember
to create a
grid using the
“Rule of
Thirds.”
Read all text
(including
titles, dates,
publication
info, and
what’s in the
image.
Add your
notes right
over top of the
image – think
of metaphors
and idioms
I do…

3. I do…

4. I do…

5. I do…

6. http://media-cache-ak0.
pinimg.com/736x/c6/b2/ecc6b2ec2ce516d024acaee94c6e71a96d.j
pg
We do…

7. We do…
http://domesticempire.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/cold-war-cartoon-by-cummings_full.jpg

8. You do…
http://multimedialearningllc.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/cold-war.gif

9. http://www.begbiecontestsociety.org/2009number%2020.jpg
You do…

10. END

11. Student
Handout
Example
(extra
cartoons to
be copied
on back)