A CHANGING WORLD • A CHANGING WORLD • • Method 1 - Commenting on a text & a cartoon
Stage 1 - Introduction: presenting the documents
Similarities: Both documents deal with sustainable development in the world, so on a world/global scale.
Differences: The 1st document is a foreword (introduction) about sustainable development by Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General (leader) published in Sustainable Development Report in 2019 -probably by the U.N.. The 2nd document is a cartoon about unsustainable development by Zapiro and published in the Los Angeles Times on the 28th August 2012.
Give structure: In a 1st part I’ll show that SD is progressing with the help of the report & in a 2nd part I’ll explain the challenges it faces using the cartoon.
Stage 2 - Analysing the documents
| DESCRIBING - What you see (docs) |
EXPLAINING - What you know (notions) |
| 1. Sustainable development is progressing - Report | |
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P1 U.N.'s goal: economic prosperity benefitting all the world population and the planet too. |
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| 2. But SD still faces challenges - Cartoon | |
Cartoon: character worried, surprised because he has (top) a big, muscled, and strong body (North) but (bottom) legs so thin that they are shaking (South) => describes N/S inequality. |
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Stage 3 - Concluding
Assess docs (reliable/biased justified): To conclude, these documents are reliable as we have their full references ; the first document is unbiased as we can't see the author's opinion whereas the cartoon is biased as we can see the author's opinion (opposition, criticism).
Sum-up ideas: These docs show that SD is improving thanks to United Nations and countries actions but urgent challenges, like N/S inequality, remain to reduce unsustainable development.
Open: We may wonder if SD can be achieved on a local scale, a city for example.
Sustainable dvpt (give the definition),
Environmental transition(def), 
urban transition (def).
climate change (def) 
Developed (def) countries 
developing (def) countries. 
unsustainable dvpt (def)