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I took an indepth look at Hoodwinked and Welcome to All. What do you think the similarities and differences are between these 2 political cartoons? Welcome to All might be my favorite. In my opinion it is using humor much like Hoodwinked uses humor to get the message across from the artist. The message in the Welcome to All cartoon is that Uncle Sam (The United States) accepts everyone no matter what the immagration issues and others want to come to this great land because of all that it promises, even if many of those promises will never come true. People from other countries chose to search refuge, just like it says on the ship which represents Noah's ark like the way all the animals were saved on the ark. There is even a sign that shows all the promises the United States makes, freedom of speech, free lunch etc.... Hoodwinked also uses humor by showing how the United States was decieved by Chang Yen Moon. So I think humor is a big similarities used in both. Satire is another element in both cartoons. What else do you see?

Shelley:

Hoodwinked and Welcome to All were similar with the use of humor to portray a message. Both of these cartoons were in color and have the pattern of the US flag in it. They both use Uncle Sam in the cartoon to portray the United States of America. When looking much closer at these cartoons you can see that they both have details that are in the background. These details are somewhat hidden at first glance. The details in Hoodwinked that are interesting are the book of diplomacy that he man is standing on. Also the Chinese treaty in one man's hand emerges as you look at the cartoon. The details in Welcome to All are frankly, hilarious!!! I had to write it down because I wanted to remember to show my kids that I tutor. Both cartoons show sarcasm as well. The sign in the background of Welcome to All says Free Education, Free Land, Free Speech, Free Ballot and Free Food! Come to our country and we will give you anything you want for free. It seems to imply that anyways. The one major difference I saw was that the Welcome to All cartoon, although funny, had a scary element. I thought that the menacing clouds and sky was creepy. It shows that they wanted to get away from war. I thought that Welcome to All showed blantant sarcasm(with the signs and war in the sky) whereas Hoodwinked, you were left to your opinion of what the cartoon shows.

These cartoons had more similarities than differences. The also were both done in the 1880's. Both cartoons showed an important part of history and these would be great choices to use with the students in a classroom. I found this activity to be really fun. It was cool to see the different ways that humor and cartoons can be used to portray an important message about that time in history. Kids are drawn to humor and cartoons so this would be a great way to start off a history lesson about using primary sources!

I tried to complete the venn diagram. I am not having any luck. Any ideas? Shelley

I didn't really notice the hidden details in Hoodwinked, good pick-up there. I really, really liked Welcome to all with all the free stuff that we both pointed out earlier. I think between the two of us we have enough similarities and differences to complete the Venn Diagram Chart. I will complete it by later tonight and post it to the wiki and you can take a look at it. If you want me to change or add anything just let me know then and I can take care of it.

Andrea

That sounds good Andrea, thank you. I thought this was a neat activity and I know that my second graders would enjoy examining different cartoons from a historical standpoint. :) Shelley