Category: English Learning Portfolio

This unit we have been looking at political satire and cartoons aimed at various different audiences. These cartoons are typically used as a medium where the artist conveys a message.

I have explored into how to look into detail and see past what meets the eye; possible implicit messages within the image and how layered cartoons really are. I also learned of the importance of links within a text, allusions to other pieces, and background information.

Aside from analysis of the meaning of a cartoon, and the composition of the piece, signature styles, color, ways people are drawn etc.

My first approach to learning (ATL) that I will be reflecting on is communication, being: “When I read, I am thinking and making connections”

When reading the fist part of the book 1984 by George Orwell, I had made some connections to other books that Orwell has written “Animal farm” in that it resides around the concept of leadership/governing bodies, and that he uses elements which seemed alien to me at first but I slowly realize that this is very possible and is happening in the world today, and probably will happen in the future. This was the only major connection that I initially made when reading, despite me going into depth with it sometimes I forget to make other connections beside that, so rather than constantly making connections I make 3 or 4.