stringers: Tuesday/ Wednesday 5/ 6 satirical cartoons from around the world

Tuesday 3.5.19

Parts of Alabama are reeling this morning after an outbreak of tornadoes killed dozens. Here's how you can help them. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

By Doug Criss

House investigations

House Democrats have started their sweeping investigation of President Donald Trump, with the House Judiciary Committee asking for documents from 81 people and entities in Trump's orbit. The mammoth probe -- which will look into the President's campaign, businesses, transition and administration -- could be a sign the Democrats are laying the groundwork to impeach Trump.

Alabama tornadoes

Stories of survival have begun to trickle out of Lee County, Alabama, as the area begins the cleanup from a tornado outbreak that killed 23 people. Lee County was hit by two twisters, and one of them was a true monster. It was an EF-4 tornado, with winds of 170 mph. It was nearly a mile wide and churned a path of devastation for 65 miles.

Venezuela

Juan Guaido faced arrest if he returned to Venezuela. He came home anyway. Guaido, Venezuela's self-declared interim president, was greeted by raucous crowds, both at the airport in Caracas and at a later rally. Guaido, who's fighting President Nicolas Maduro for control of the country, had been on a tour of sorts, meeting with the presidents of several South American countries as well as US Vice President Mike Pence.

HIV

Has a second person been cured of HIV? Some scientists think so. A man in the UK, identified only as the "London patient," has experienced sustained remission from HIV-1 after being treated with stem cell transplants from donors who carried a rare genetic mutation that made them resistant to the disease.

Luke Perry

Luke Perry played a lot of roles during his acting career, but to us he'll always be Dylan, the brooding but cool teen from "Beverly Hills, 90210." Perry, 52, died Monday after suffering a massive stroke, a death that shocked Hollywood and the world.

satirical cartoons from around the world

Learning tarTgets: I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story.

I can introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s).

Throughout history, political cartoons have played a significant role in the shaping of this great nation. With just a few strokes of a pen, the cartoonist sums up a complex situation in a single powerful image that explains everything. Thus, the humble cartoon brings about change and peace and togetherness and understanding and progress and happiness.

Assignment: below you will find 10 satirical cartoons from around the world. Look at the images carefully, as well as any text. For each of the 10, explain the satirical message. You might have to do some research, if you are not current with the news. You responses should be a couple of well-written sentences for each, whose "evidence" is based upon specifics from the image.

These are due by Wednesday, March 6

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