Look at the visual below, and then highlight and annotate it to identify its most important images and their relationship to one another. When you have finished, think about how the images work together to communicate a central message to the audience. What argument does this visual make?

Interview a classmate about his or her experiences with video games—or with actual violence. Does your classmate see any links between the kinds of videos that are watched by friends and family members and the violence (or lack of violence) that occurs in his or her community? Write a paragraph summarizing your interview.

Study the following three visuals (and their captions), all of which appear in Gerard Jones’s essay, “Violent Media Is Good for Kids”. Look at each visual with a critical eye, and then consider how effectively each one supports the central argument that Jones makes in his essay.