Monday, March 2nd

Goals: 
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

 Announcements: 

• Let's Talk about upcoming due dates
  • ​Tri 2 Final Portfolio, due Monday March 9th 
    • ​Check for missing assignments!
  • ​Next week:  in-class essay on Ernest, multiple choice check-in
• Send me a satire:  video, images, songs? 
• Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th 
  • ​Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Contemporary Satire
2. Background information (50 Things by Topic)

• Look over your research and circle what is most important to our background knowledge of the play.  Present.  

2. Video 

3. Incongruity Game

• Everyone stands in a circle. One person begins by doing an everyday activity, such as combing her hair. The person to her right asks, “What are you doing?” She then continues to comb her hair but says she is doing something completely different, such as giving her cat a bath. the person who asks must now spontaneously begin to pantomime giving a cat a bath.. Thenext person asks, “What are you doing?”  The game continues around the circle until everyone has had an opportunity to pantomime an activity. 
  • What was the most humorous moments?
  • Was it the ridiculousness of hearing and seeing two completely incongruous things?​
  • Were situations that were more exaggerated or extravagant than real-life, everyday activities more comical?

4. Read Act 1 

5. Act 1:  Writer's Notebook
What is being targeted?  What satire techniques are being used here? How do the techniques contribute to meaning?