Doensbury Fariba

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

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Key features Comic Books and Graphic Novels

• Considered literary works, even if autobiographical or biographical in nature 
• Written text, including use of captions, word balloons, and display lettering  
• The inter-relationship between the visual image (illustration) and the written text
  
• Illustrations, including use of colour, shading, shape
  
• 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
  

Authorial Intent

Authorial intent refers to an author's intent as it is encoded in their work. Authorial intentionalism is the view, according to which an author's intentions should constrain the ways in which it is properly interpreted.

We as readers are manipulated/programed by the author to think the way we think. Chance to watch The Social Dilemma on netflix.

Begin with the end in Mind

Formative assessment - proof that you have followed the program. Your teacher will view your progress.  

Summative assessment - there is no summative assessment for this module but your work will be added to your portfolio for possible use in an Individual Oral in 2022. You may also be called upon in class to tell your views on a certain comic. 

 

Step One

 

Select four of your global issues. Match each Global Issue with one of the Doensbury comics

WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS AND TAKE NOTES ABOUT THE CARTOONS AND THE AUTHOR. THINK ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IS CLASS AND FOCUS ON THE LANGUAGE USED REGARDING COMICS IN GENERAL AND DOENSBURY IN PARTICULAR.  FOCUS ESPECIALLY ON THE AUTHORIAL CONTEXT. 

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Second time around - start at 3:40.

Know your characters names, and their background. 

First panel - exposition - what is that in your cartoon. Why is this important

Second/Third panels moves the story forwards and builds up the suspense to 

Fourth panel - not just funny but surprise or patronising or cynical or satirical or whatever he uses to make us first laugh then think and sometimes as in his 30 years of cartooning Turmp - he hits the proverbial nail on the head - saying directly what we all want to say. 

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Who is Doensbury?

Click the next slide to go to the wikipedia page which explains a bit about the main character

Take note of any information you may find useful. 

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Review your four comics with your newfound information and your class notes. 

Which field of inquiry

Which global issue is being represented and WHY and HOW

How is meaning constructed

How has the meaning been negotiated

What is the view point being expressed

How would a reader interpret this meaning

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On the following slide fill in the following sentence for two of your comics.

How does this text explore..........

Use your fields of inquiry to help you.

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Narrowing down your GI ideas examples

How does this  text explore aspects race and ethnicity, and the way these impact on individuals and societies.

How does this text investigate  aspects gender and sexuality, and the way these impact the perception of the female adolescence.

How does this text reflect or challenge male dominance within the feminist point of view. 

Strong Analytic Verbs to focus on 

to suggest  to reveal  to diminish  to convey  to establish  to illustrate  to connote  to compare  to address  to exhibit  to explore  to reflect  to present  to represent  to examine  to develop

Word Smithing the global issue

Use one of the following ideas 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 (..........) 

Choose One comic and write a 400 word paragraph. 

Introduce your Global Issue. Explain which comic you have chosen.  Think about your HOW question and come up with the ideas, messages etc that the author wants the reader to understand and which authorial components does he use to do this.  Refer in the end again to your Global Issue and how it may pertain to the complete body of work. 

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