Doonesbury: Independent work

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 5

Key features of Comics and Graphic Novels

• Graphic novels are classified by the IB as literary texts; other forms (comic books, comic strips, single-frame comics are non-literary)
• Meaning is carried by both text elements (dialogue, narration, sound effects, etc) and visual ones
• Illustrations, include use of colour, shading, shape and sometimes text (e.g., signs, etc).
  
• Spatial mechanics (how space is used within each panel)
  
• Temporal mechanics (how time is stopped, slowed down or speeded up)
  
• Use of gutters (white space between the panels)
  
• Use of panels – the impact of their order, shape, size
  
• The inter-relationship between the visual image and the written text

About the author...

WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. 

01:35

Trudeau created "Doonesbury" in 1968.  What else happened around that time.  Drag the event to the year it happened.

1968

1967

1969

Martin Luther King killed

Russia invades Czechia

6-Day Arab-Israeli war

500,000 people at Woodstock music festival

1st man on the moon

1st heart transplant

04:24

B.D. is based on Brian Dowling, a player on the Yale University team for which sport?

1. Baseball
2. Rugby
3. (American) Football
4. Basketball

07:32

Explain why people
thought this cartoon
was "startling"

And so...

Just before the interview ends, she describes Garry Trudeau as "the chronicler of the counterculture".  The next slide will give you information about the "counterculture" of the period.  Read it through and answer the question following on how this might be reflected in the Doonesbury cartoons.

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Explain how Trudeau is "chronicler of the counterculture"

About Doonesbury

"Doonesbury" is an ensemble strip, featuring many different characters.  It takes its name from Michael Doonesbury, who Trudeau modeled on himself. Read more about Mike on the next slide.

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Analyzing Cartoons

In the following video, Trudeau walks us through one of his cartoons, explaining his authorial intent and why he made the choices he did.  Watching this video will be good preparation for your IO if you are going to use either (or both) Doonesbury or Persepolis.

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Start at 3.18 

Have students take notes on what he is saying.

Teacher takes notes on the board first about the key words he uses. Then other board on the four panels including key words. 

Defining a global issue

A global issue, in order to be useful for the IO, should be defined very specifically.  The following slides give examples of how that is done.  Word your global issues in the same manner.

Word Smithing the global issue

Use phrases such as these to strengthen your GI

The impact of (........) on ............

The relationship between (.....) and (.......)

The question of (.........) during a time of (........)

Interpretations of (........) in (..........) 

(.........) as a force of (..........) 

Task:

Modeling your answer on the examples on the previous slide, define a global issue for the cartoon below

Enter the global issue here and explain the authorial intent.

Task:

Modeling your answer on the examples on the previous slide, define a global issue for the cartoon below

Enter the global issue here and explain the authorial intent.

Task:

Modeling your answer on the examples on the previous slide, define a global issue for the cartoon below

Enter the global issue here and explain the authorial intent.

Task:

Modeling your answer on the examples on the previous slide, define a global issue for the cartoon below

Enter the global issue here and explain the authorial intent.

Task:

Modeling your answer on the examples on the previous slide, define a global issue for the cartoon below

Enter the global issue here and explain the authorial intent.

Task

For the cartoon below, identify which of the 5 Fields of Inquiry best fits the global issue in it, and explain the author's choices:

Write a paragraph on the field of inquiry, gobal issue and authorial choices in the cartoon.

Final task

Find a cartoon from the Doonesbury handout and link it to global issue that is also present in an extract from Persepolis, Othello or from one of Peter Gabriel's songs   Take a photo of the cartoon and upload it on the next slide.  On the slide following, state the global issue and explain how it is present in both Doonesbury and the other text you have chosen.

Global issue in Doonesbury and one of the literary texts