In class on Monday

Sorry to not be with you all today; I had a sweet April Fool's joke planned....

We are going to be working with the next chapter of the book, chapter 32, which is about the Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Ottoman Empires as they all teeter on the brink of collapse.  Your task for this unit is described in a Google Document, linked up here.

Before we get into that, though, you need to learn a little about the composition of political cartoons and how the artists who make them use them to represent their point to their audience.

To help you think about what does into a successful political cartoon, a Cartoon Analysis Checklist is linked up here. Read this first.

Please note: You will not be allowed to make a meme or a rage comic for this, what you create must be a cartoon, though it may incorporate computer generated images.

You will be assigned into a group and into one of the empires in the chapter, and should read the appropriate selection so you can complete this activity.  The assignments are listed in a google document linked up here.

You will have the period today and some of the period tomorrow to work on this.

For tonight, you should pick one of the empires you did not work with today and read the section about it in the textbook tonight.

As a side note, for some reason Google is not allowing me to reply to your emails; I'm not sure why that is. So if you didn't get an email back from me about the re-write, everyone has been approved to do it, I just wanted to get a head count of how many I'll need to read.  You will write them on your own time and hand them in tomorrow. (with the originals!) You may type or write them.  I suggest writing them by hand and keeping track of your time spent, as this will give you a better practice for the real thing, but it is up to you.