Values and Attitudes in Political Cartoons

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• empathy
• ethical understanding
• intercultural understanding
• global citizenship

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 10 English 

• Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes (AC9E10LY03)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding, Literacy

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

NSW Syllabus Outcomes: EN5-URB-01

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: Students evaluate how text structures can be used in innovative ways by different authors. They explain how the choice of language features, images and vocabulary contributes to the development of individual style.

UN SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere 

• Target 1.a Ensure significant mobilisation of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions

• Device capable of projecting onto the board
• Student Worksheet 
• Whiteboard markers for annotations

This lesson has been developed with the support of The Life You Can Save.

The Life You Can Save conducts research to identify non-profits running highly impactful programs that address the multiple dimensions of poverty. They also help connect people who want to donate money and resources with these non-profits to maximise the impact of their gifts. They aim to create a world where everyone has an opportunity to build a better life and where there’s no suffering or death due to extreme poverty. The Life You Can Save was founded by Melbourne-born Peter Singer, widely recognised as one of the world’s most influential contemporary philosophers, to advance the ideas in his 2009 book The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (republished 2019). Since then, they’ve worked to introduce the ideas from Professor Singer’s book to new audiences, inspiring people to help others experiencing poverty around the world and empowering them to make the greatest impact possible.

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