TORCUATOR, MARICEL S.

1BS AGECON

Learning Activities

Activity 1
Direction: These questions should be used in analyzing every cartoon presented above.
1. What do you observe first with the picture?

➢ What I’ve observed in the first picture is the Filipino teachers were under appreciated during
the American period. Where they experienced being discriminated and has a low income compared
to the American teachers even though they have same qualifications or better than the old American
educators

2. What is the title of the cartoon?

➢ “Equal work, unequal salary, why?”

3. List the people, objects, and places in the cartoon.

• Filipino teacher
• American teacher
• Money
• School

4. List the actions or activities.

➢ The Filipino teacher shows how hard it was to be a Filipino teacher during the american
period. While on the other hand the American teacher is smiling and smoking a tabacco and he’s
priviledged with the salary that he got because he is an American teacher.

5. Which of the visuals are symbols of meanings?

➢ The Weighing scale of both Filipino and American teachers were they hold different
heaviness. In the Filipino teacher they were underpaid while teaching. The American teacher has a
lot of income which money holds the heaviness which is opposite to the Filipino teacher.
 ENRICHMENT

Direction: Find a political cartoon and cut it. Paste it on the box. Present the elements in the picture
like what you did above ( title, people/actions/places, visuals). State the purpose why
the author depicts such scenario of the condition it is describing.

INFLATION TO POOR PEOPLE

PEOPLE:
• Citizens
• Government Officials
• Banks
ACTIONS
• Citizens are Struggling
• Banks are making money more by taking money to poor people (taxes, loans and etc.)
• Governments are doing nothing about it.