ReadWriteThink: Political Cartoons and Raymond Carver Lessons

I finished and posted the lesson on Hopper and Carver: Outside In: Finding A Character’s Heart Through Art. It has a whole series of interactives, because of the way that the tools work. I had to create one for each painting. Otherwise, students would be printing out tons of irrelevant stuff when they worked.

I also finished my political cartoons lesson plan: Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists. It uses the same Comic Vocabulary Interactive. I also created a little interactive just for this lesson, Analyzing a Political Cartoon: “Settin’ on a Rail,” which walks through some of the analysis of an historical cartoon to help students understand the process.

Other than getting those lesson plans finished, I didn’t really get much else done. Watched Wonderland on TiVo, a somewhat disturbing movie.