Warm Up #4

1. Warm Up #4 • Provide an example for hyperbole, understatement, and sarcasm. Check your answers with a partner to make sure you have a good understanding of what these devices are.

2. A Turbulent TimeThe Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries1625-1798 Day 5

3. Students will be able to… Identify and discuss the relationship between a time period and the literature produced during that time. Analyze how literature shapes or reflects a society. Identify and evaluate the use of satire, irony, and sarcasm. Create original works using satire, irony, and sarcasm. • Reading 3.5c Evaluate the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social influences of the historical period that shaped the characters, plots, and settings. 3.2 Analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim. 3.1 Analyze characteristics of subgenres (e.g., satire, parody, allegory, pastoral) that are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other basic genres. 3.7c Evaluate the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social influences of the historical period that shaped the characters, plots, and settings. 3.9 Analyze the philosophical arguments presented in literary works to determine whether the authors' positions have contributed to the quality of each work and the credibility of the characters. (Philosophical approach) Reading 3.7b Relate literary works and authors to the major themes and issues of their eras. Reading 3.3 Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the author's style, and the "sound" of language achieve specific rhetorical or aesthetic purposes or both. • Writing 1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of discourse (e.g., purpose, speaker, audience, form) when completing narrative, expository, persuasive, or descriptive writing assignments.

4. Unit test! • You will take the multiple choice test on this unit today. • It is open note, but it is also be timed. • You have 30 minutes • Please DO NOT write on the tests, use a separate piece of paper • GOOD LUCK!

5. Writing ASSIGNMENT • Today you will write your own version of “A Modest Proposal.” You need to choose a situation/problem/issue that you feel can be satirized. You will then write a short essay that includes the following: • What/who is the issue • Why is it important • What is your “modest” solution • Include what it needs and how it will work • Why would your “solution” works/why is it a good idea • Make sure to include here a counterargument and your rebuttal • You have 45 minutes

6. Writing Sample Outline • Issue: Hats on campus • Importance: students not following rules, blatant disrespect leads to further troubles • Solution: when a student wears an inappropriate hat to school an appropriate one will be permanently attached to his/her head • To work: a sterilized surgical room will be created in the health office with a top rated surgeon standing by so the procedure is not “cruel and unusual,” no infections or complications will arise, and can be done immediately • Good Idea: Will eliminate the problem by becoming a serious deterrent to all students once an example is made out of a small few, those offenders will never again be able to disrespect the rule on hats • Counter: expensive to pay surgeon, upkeep surgical center, provide appropriate hats • Rebuttal: pro bono plastic surgeons, students with detention will upkeep center, hats can be donated by local business

7. None! You’re Welcome 