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Quickly scan the cartoon. What do you notice first?
A car, items on the floor, people and buildings.
What is the title or caption?
It’s Okay - We’re Hunting Communists
Are there labels, descriptions, thoughts, or dialogue?
Committee on un-american activities.
- List the people, objects, and places in the cartoon. List the actions or activities.
Busy streets, women, men, paper, purse, glasses, and signs.
Which words or phrases are the most significant?
We’re Hunting Communists
List adjectives that describe the emotions portrayed.
Hunting Communists, people are after people who support or resemble communism.
Which of the visuals are symbols?
The car running over people, making people scared.
What do they stand for?
The committee on un American activities of people hunting communists.
Who drew this cartoon?
Herbert, Block
When is it from?
October 1947
What was happening at the time in history it was created?
The Cold War revived the anti-communist hysteria that had gripped the United States after World War I. In 1947 Congress revived the House Committee on Un-American Activities
What is the message? List evidence from the cartoon or your knowledge about the cartoonist that led you to your conclusion.
That people are hunting communists since the title of the cartoon is named we’re hunting communists
What did you find out from this cartoon that you might not learn anywhere else?
That people went crazy chasing people who had a belief in supporting communism.
What other documents or historical evidence are you going to use to help you understand this event or topic?
Other primary sources.
Quickly scan the cartoon.What do you notice first?
I first noticed a large hand holding a torch and a man climbing the stairs.
What is the title or caption?
The caption is “Fire!”
Are there labels, descriptions, thoughts, or dialogue?
There is a label on the man's leg saying “Hysteria”.
List the people, objects, and places in the cartoon.
There is a man holding a bucket with liquid climbing a ladder trying to reach a torch.
List the actions or activities.
A man climbing a ladder. He seems to be suffering.
Which words or phrases are the most significant?
The words “Fire!” and “Hysteria” are the most significant.
List adjectives that describe the emotions portrayed.
Suffering, upset, pain
Which of the visuals are symbols?
I think the man and the torch are symbols.
What do they stand for?
The man stands for hysteria and desperation and the torch stands for the fake fire.
Who drew this cartoon?
Washington Post
What was happening at the time in history it was created?
People hysterically look for things that are already there.
What is the message? List evidence from the cartoon or your knowledge about the cartoonist that led you to your conclusion.
The fire shown was from the Statue of Liberty. That fire is fake, just an art piece. People are looking for things that are already there but freaking out about it.
When is it from?
1949
What did you find out from this cartoon that you might not learn anywhere else?
How easily one could be falsely accused
What other documents or historical evidence are you going to use to help you understand this event or topic?
The red scare helps me understand the event
What do you notice first?
People in something that seems to be a class
What is the title or caption?
“You read books, eh?”
Are there labels, descriptions, thoughts, or dialogue?
There is a portrait in the wall with a pictuer and it says “Jefferson”
There is also a bag that says “state and local”, “Anti-subversive committees”
List the people, objects, and places in the cartoon. List the actions or activities.
People are in a classroom, some of them standing pointing at a map “U.S.S.R”, some of them discussing with each other and one standing in the back starring at a picture with the name “Jefferson”
Which words or phrases are the most significant?
The letters in the map “U.S.S.R.” which means the soviet union, the guy pointing at it has a scissor which could infer that they are trying to get rid of them
List adjectives that describe the emotions portrayed.
Fear, interest, investigate
Which of the visuals are symbols?
The map showing the soviet union territory
What do they stand for?
The united states
Who drew this cartoon?
Block, Herbert
When is it from?
1949, April 24
What was happening at the time in history it was created?
The foundation of NATO
What is the message?
This cartoon shows that some groups in the U.S., called "Anti-subversive" Committees, are stopping teachers from freely expressing ideas in the classroom
List evidence from the cartoon or your knowledge about the cartoonist that led you to your conclusion.
This seems to be a classroom, which is being investigated by the state and local anti - subversive committee, the people are pointing and looking at the map which seems to want to get rid of the soviet union
Quickly scan the cartoon. What do you notice first?
Is a red is a main piece of tex
What is the title or caption?
“Now we have new and important evidence
Are there labels, descriptions, thoughts, or dialogue?
There is someone in a court, and people holding a fence
List the people, objects, and places in the cartoon. List the actions or activities.
Someone is a red
Which words or phrases are the most significant?
The person in the court is stating how someone is a Commie and the two people are bringing the fence as evidence which is just someone's writing
List adjectives that describe the emotions portrayed.
The person in the court is hysterically going against someone trying to prove that they’re communist
Which of the visuals are symbols?
The fence is a symbol;
What do they stand for?
It stands for how the smallest things made people think someone is communist\
Who drew this cartoon?
Herbert, Block
When is it from?
May 8, 1950
What was happening at the time in history it was created?
People are accusing others for the smallest things
What is the message? List evidence from the cartoon or your knowledge about the cartoonist that led you to your conclusion.
Someone can be falsely accused of being communist for something dumb
What did you find out from this cartoon that you might not learn anywhere else?
How stupid accusations can become real
What other documents or historical evidence are you going to use to help you understand this event or topic?
Red scare and government staff using dumb evidence
What do you notice first?
I see someone probably from the government holding forged evidence
What is the title or caption?
I have here in my hand
Are there labels, descriptions, thoughts, or dialogue?
Doctored photo and faked letter
List the people, objects, and places in the cartoon.
The man is holding both forged docs
List the actions or activities.
The man is probably going to submit the evidence
Which words or phrases are the most significant?
Doctored photo and faked letter
List adjectives that describe the emotions portrayed.
The man is sweating, most likely nervous
Which of the visuals are symbols?
The symbols are the man sweating and the forged evidence
What do they stand for?
The man knows that the evidence is fake, but doesnt care
Who drew this cartoon?
Herblock
What was happening at the time in history it was created?
May 7, 1954
What is the message? List evidence from the cartoon or your knowledge about the cartoonist that led you to your conclusion.
People were submitting fake evidence to accuse someone to be communist even if the evidence was fake, it was still used
When is it from?
May 7, 1954
What did you find out from this cartoon that you might not learn anywhere else?
How even though people knew the evidence was fake, it was still used
What other documents or historical evidence are you going to use to help you understand this event or topic?
The red scare and McCarthyism
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