Today we opened by reviewing some strategies for dealing with test questions that involve
sources such as cartoons, paintings, photos or other examples of visual media. I suggest that you spend a full two or three minutes carefully examining the source and noting down all that is involved. Write right on the image on the test paper. Next, look at your observations you've noted and then ask what they might "mean" or how they could be significant. Write those ideas right on the test paper. Call all that your pre-writing. Only then should you step back and attempt to explain the bigger issue/idea/metaphor or allusion. I gave an example on the board and then we worked together to practice the initial steps on some other samples. Here are some screen shots:
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| The sample response for Source A |
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| Source A |
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| Source B |
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| Source C (G Block notes) |
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| Source C (E Block notes) |
Next, we discussed the rise of fascism in Italy with a PPT and I again reviewed the characteristics of proportional representation (and the resultant coalition governments that often lack the stability of our majority - or even minority - governments here in Canada). Here are some slides from the PPT:
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| This one is a MUST know. |
If you have read DeMarco from Monday and Tuesday and you have done Ex 1-7 then you have no homework tonight.
Jessica asked what OVRA stood for. The Falk workbook said it didn't mean anything. This is from an Internet source: The OVRA was The Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo (OVRA; Italian for "Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism") .
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