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Understanding Cartoons: Extracting Messages for High Marks in Assessments

This guide explains how to effectively interpret and analyze cartoon messages for assessments worth up to 7 marks. It outlines the grading criteria based on the number of answer boxes completed, providing a step-by-step approach to structuring your responses. Example questions, such as the interpretation of messages related to historical events like the Treaty of Versailles, are included. The guide emphasizes the importance of supporting your interpretations with both cartoon details and contextual knowledge for higher grades.

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Understanding Cartoons: Extracting Messages for High Marks in Assessments

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  1. This form of question will ask you give the message of a source using details from the source and your own knowledge. It is worth 6 or 7 marks. (This varies from year to year) Structuring an Answer Getting the Marks If you complete boxes 2 and 4 you will only get 3 marks (E Grade) If you complete boxes 1 and 2/4 you will get 4 marks (D Grade) If you complete boxes 1, 2 and 3 you will get 5 marks (C Grade) If you complete all boxes you will get between 6 and 7 marks (A-B Grade)

  2. Example Question What is the message of the cartoon? (June 2010) • Level 1 Uses surface features of cartoon only 1-2 • e.g. ‘The figure on the left is being held whilst it receives the peace terms in the form of a • pill.’ • ‘The Treaty was good (bad) one.’ • ‘The Treaty will make things better.’ • ‘Germany was being treated unfairly.’ • (Allow 2 marks for a valid message but one that is not the main message) • Level 2 Interpretation to give the main message 3 • The message must relate to the idea of force or that the treatment was unpleasant or that • it was expensive. • e.g. ‘The main message of the cartoon is that Germany is being forced to accept their • treatment at Versailles.’ • ‘Germany is being forced to accept unpleasant / expensive treatment.’ • Level 3 Interpretation supported by details of the cartoon OR by contextual knowledge 4-5 • e.g. ‘The main message of the cartoon is that Germany is being forced to accept their • treatment at Versailles. The cartoon shows the Allied leaders administering the ‘medicine’ • to Germany and Germany does not want to take it so Germany is struggling and has to be • forced to accept its punishment as shown by the hand with the names of the countries on • it. It does not have a choice as can be seen at the right hand side of the cartoon where it • says, ‘You’ve got to swallow whether you like it or not.’ eh box indicates the expense at • ‘millions a box’.’ • OR • e.g. ‘The main message of the cartoon is that Germany is being forced to accept their • treatment at Versailles. The man representing Germany is struggling as Germany is being • forced to pay very high reparations / suffer savage cuts to its military.. Germany was • forced to accept the Peace Treaty (Diktat) but was not happy with many of the terms being • imposed on them.’ • Level 4 Interpretation supported by details of the cartoon AND by contextual knowledge 6 • Both sides of Level 3.

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