Paige's IB Lang. and Lit. Blog

In class, we have been preparing for our new FOA which we will be doing for our final. We have to create 2 PSA's (one that is 60-90 seconds and one that is 30 seconds). In my group, we will be doing ours of suicide prevention. Over the week before winter break, we had been trying to figure out what our message was going to be and how we wanted to show it. We discused what we wanted to put in and we put our ideas into a document. We wanted to educate people on suicide and show some of the signs that some people might show if they are having suicidal thoughts. We also want to show the number to a suicide prevention hotline if there are some who really need to reach out to someone. Through that, we worked on a storyboard and how we wanted to show the things we wanted to put into out PSA. We also researched a whole lot about suicide by looking for statistics and websites that may be helpful. Those helped us to get all the information we needed. We will be filming after break is over an

In class, we learned how to deconstruct and analyze a political cartoon. For this post, I will be analyzing a modern political cartoon from the Washington Post called "The K Chronicles" by Keith Knight. In this political cartoon, we see a white police officer and a small black child. The child asks the white police officer how many shots it takes to defend against an un-armed black man. The officer then decides to figure that out and shoots off panel for most of the panels. In the end, he comes back and says that it took 41 shots which the child says that it seems a little excessive. The officer replies by saying "Listen...you people could avoid getting into these situations if you would just lighten up!!" Some of the symbols include the gun and the kids watch. The gun is to show power and protection. The watch is shown because it takes far to long for them just to defend themselves. The characters are a bit exaggerated as it is a cartoon style. It is also only in