Thursday, May 7th

*Check Swift Response
*Small Group Discussion: Develop one response that represents the best of your ideas.
---1 writer, same format: 1/2 page, 2 supporting quotes
---Share
*Info: Constructed Response Final Exam
---Monday & Tuesday

*OBJECTIVE: Identify & explain satire

Wednesday, May 6th

*Collect leftover novels
*Collect responses to songs
*If you need to, finish Swift response

*OBJECTIVE: Identify and explain satire

Tuesday, May 5th

*Sub
*Grab a purple book
*Read p. 486 & list 5 things you learned about Swift that may be important/useful in making sense of his work
*Read pp. 488-94
*Answer the following in at least 1/2 page, using at least two supporting quotes: "What aspects of society does Swift seem to be satirizing in this section? Hint: Consider the Lilliputians symbolic of society in general.

*OBJECTIVE: Identify and explain satire

Monday, May 4th

*Ironic Songs
*1/2 Page, 2 supporting quotes--Choose one of the songs and respond to this prompt: This song makes use of an ironic tone to make the point that . . .
*Definition: Satire

*OBJECTIVE: Identify and explain irony.

Friday, May 1st

*Irony Video
*(time permitting) Help me brainstorm more movie clips w/ irony

*OBJECTIVE: Identify and explain irony

Thursday, April 30th

*Sub
*Irony in the Simpsons: Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish

Wednesday, April 29th

*Sub
*Essay Test