Cartoons

Today I taught a lesson on the Captains of Industry and Trusts. We talked about and analyzed a few anti-trust political cartoons. I thought it was a pretty cool lesson. For homework, the students have to create their own political cartoons. Some of the ideas they came up with were actually really god. One kid is doing a dollar bill, with the portrait of Rockefeller, and "In Rockefeller we Trust" on the bottom. I was pretty impressed. Another kid is doing the trusts like a pac-man game. Eating up money signs with the US Gov. (the ghosts) chasing after them.

When I wasn't in class today I started working on my own cartoons for my College Newspaper because i'm the official cartoonist. A few of the seniors were watching me draw over my shoulder, they were pretty sneaky I didn't know they were there. They were really impressed with my drawing, I didn't think it was that good, but I enjoyed the compliment.

Tomorrow the juniors' political cartoons are due, I think i'm actually going to be very impressed. We'll see though