Wednesday April 1st, 2015 (Christine)

Wednesday April 1st, 2015

In class:

• Collect S/R: discuss connections to essential question
• Satire: What is it?
• Horatian
• Juvenalian
• Onion
• Harpers
• Simpsons: watch episode
• Satire work:
• 1. Name type of satire and why? Horatian or Juvenalian
• 2. Methods of satire used: absurdity, exaggeration, understatement, parody, wit or word play, euphemism, irony
• 3. One satirical target (What is the author making fun of?)
  4. One necessary change (What does the author want us to change in society—Be specific)
  5 What tone does the author use? (Underline verbs that illustrate this tone)
• Ms. Smith spoke about working harder to get homework done and annotating perfect annotations
• We got 3 different hand-outs at the beginning of class
• Annotating…..
• What responsibilty does a creator have towards its creation?
• At what point does a creation have to be responsible for its own actions?
• Where are extensions to our other pieces
• connections to the real world
• After we spoke about “Stranger Than Fictions” and how Karen took responsibilty for her creation, Harold

HomeWork:

• Read BNW Forward -2: Monday, annotate: look for connections to essential question: to what extent does a creator have responsibility towards its creation; at what point does a creation assume responsibility for itself?; questions, extensions to other pieces, annotations- I will be checking :)
• LL 2: due Friday, Satire presentation: Friday on article