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ACTIvITy 2
Collaborative Practice
The cartoon below is from Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle comic strip. As you read it over, look for evidence—both visual and textual—about the cartoon’s perspective regarding the locavore movement. Examine the cartoon closely.
Work collaboratively to respond to the following prompts. To do a close reading of a visual image, you should view and review the artwork each time you respond to the questions
First Reading: What do you see?
As you look at the comic strip, what catches your eye? What details do you notice? To answer this question, base your responses only on what you can see in the cartoon. Next, read to understand the meaning of the content of the dialogue balloons.
Second Reading: What does it mean?
Now that you have examined the cartoon carefully, what inferences can you make? How do you interpret what you see? In other words, what might you say about the argument presented in the cartoon?
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