HAUGHNEY,+amber


 * **Student name: Amber Haughney** ||

1. List all the objects or people you see in the caroon.
 * Visuals || Words (not all cartoons include words) ||
 * **Level One:**

// 1) Uncle Sam // // 2) large green sock // // 3) yarn & sewing needels // // 4) a guy in pajamas // || 1. Identify the cartoon caption and/or title.

//jobless benifits, and "Can you make it longer?"//

2. Locate three words or phrases used by the cartoonist to identify objects or people with the cartoon.

"//Can you make this longer?"//

3. Record any important dates or numbers that appear in the cartoon.

// 2010, 12-2 // || 2. Which of the objects on your list are symbols?
 * **Level Two:**

1) Sock

3. What do you think each symbol means?

// The large sock means that all the jobless // // benifits, so the guy is telling Uncle Sam to // // make it longer because of all the jobless // // people in the world. // || 4. Which words or phrases in the cartoon appear to be most significant? Why do you think so?

"//Can you make it longer?" , i think it appeares to be most// //significant because it means exactly what the world is like// //with people that are jobless at the time.//

5. List adjectives that descrive the emotions portrayed in the cartoon. // very tired // ||

A. Descrive the action taking place in the cartoon.
 * **Level Three:**

//The action taking place is that uncle sam is makeing the sock that represents all the people with jobless benifits//.

B. Explain how the words in the cartoon clarify the symbols.

//It clarifyes all the jobless benifits .//

C. Explain the message of the cartoon.

//What the guy is trying to say is that there are so many jobless benifits, that its gonna be a endless sock that goes//

a long way because as long as it gets means all the jobless benifits.

D. What special interest groups would agree/disagree with the cartoons message? Why?

// They would agree becuse they know that in the world today its very hard to find a job, and alot of people are trying to //

// get jobs and most wind up not gettin one. // ||

//I thought that by doing a project on political cartoons was very intresting because it got me more interested in the government, economy, taxes and etc.//
 * **Reflection:** ||