--Spend the first few minutes of class engaging in last minute preparation for today's Unit #4 vocabulary quiz.
--When I ask you to stop, please give me your undivided attention so that I can give directions for what to do when you finish taking the vocabulary quiz. Then, pick up a copy of the quiz from the front table.
Assessment -- Unit #4 Vocabulary Quiz
--After carefully reading all of the directions, complete the vocabulary quiz quietly and independently. Good luck!
--When you finish with the quiz, place your work on the floor next to your desk. Then, pick up a copy of the graphic organizer from the front table. Do your best to...
- add to your "Irony Rough Notes" from last class block
- complete the organizer for the terms "situational irony" and "verbal irony".
(I have gotten this work started for you on the lefthand whiteboard to serve as a model.)
--trade and grade--return quizzes to rightful owners--reflect on performance and note still-not-mastered words in vocabulary books--I will collect quizzes momentarily
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
Transition #2
--Take out your notebook or binder and open back up the section of notes labeled "Irony Rough Notes."
Mini-Lesson (cont.) -- The Three Types of Irony
--Objectives:
By the end of the mini-lesson, you should...
By the end of the mini-lesson, you should...
- be able to define both irony in general and the three main types of irony
- be able to recognize each of the types of irony in action
- understand some of the reasons why authors implement irony
- have a solid page of notes to study in order to master irony--your mastery and the notes page itself should aid you in future endeavors.
--in pairs (assigned by me), share/finish work with graphic organizer
--whole-class share-out
--purposefully view remaining video clips, which correspond with dramatic irony--your purpose:
- Knowing that the video clips exemplify dramatic irony, add to your definition in your notebook
- Consider the way that you feel/the impact that the dramatic irony is having on you as a viewer--write your thoughts in your notebook
Clips from DreamWorks' 2001 film Shrek (a student provides a brief plot summary first):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYcnlw_QoQY
4. The box of airdropped humanitarian aid landed on the refugee and crushed him to death.
5. I missed the job interview because I overslept.
6. “Thank you for this ticket, Officer. You just made my day.”
--Where should you put this notes page?
Closure -- Ball Toss
--"Today, I learned/realized/understood that..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obN8EIOj19M
--following the video clips, add to our rough notes up on the front board/your rough notes in your notebook
--Transition--pick up the "Irony Notes" page from the front table
--independently or in same pairs as before, purposefully read the notes page (How did we do?!), fill in the blanks, write an example for each type of irony (from the video clips, other movies or television shows you have seen, works you have read in school in the past, and/or real life), and jot down in list form authorial purpose(s)/intended effect(s) (e.g., humor)--whole-class share-out--add to official notes page
--following the video clips, add to our rough notes up on the front board/your rough notes in your notebook
--Transition--pick up the "Irony Notes" page from the front table
--independently or in same pairs as before, purposefully read the notes page (How did we do?!), fill in the blanks, write an example for each type of irony (from the video clips, other movies or television shows you have seen, works you have read in school in the past, and/or real life), and jot down in list form authorial purpose(s)/intended effect(s) (e.g., humor)--whole-class share-out--add to official notes page
- connect back to our work with "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" (contrast and contradictions and theme development)
--Closure
Directions:
Directions:
- For each of the following examples, if you think that the example is situational irony, hold up ONE finger. If you think that the example is verbal irony, hold up TWO fingers. If an example best fits dramatic irony, hold up THREE fingers. Finally, if an example is in no way ironic at all, hold up a FIST.
- Put your head down on your desk, listen to each example, and throw your hand up in the air!
1. I failed the test because I did not study.
2. Dave’s blood pressure medication gave him a heart attack.
3. Juliet took a sleeping potion, but Romeo, who has no idea, thinks that she is dead and hastily takes his own life.4. The box of airdropped humanitarian aid landed on the refugee and crushed him to death.
5. I missed the job interview because I overslept.
6. “Thank you for this ticket, Officer. You just made my day.”
--Where should you put this notes page?
Closure -- Ball Toss
*LOGICALLY END MINI-LESSON AND COMPLETE THIS CLOSURE PIECE IF UNABLE TO ENTIRELY FINISH.*
HW Time
HW (Class Preparation)
--"Clean up" your irony notes (e.g., finish copying information from your rough notes onto your "Irony Notes" page, write a clean page of notes in your notebook, etc.).
--Review your "Irony Notes" page. A multiple choice assessment aiming to measure the following will occur next class (Tuesday, 2/6 [ACE] or Wednesday, 2/7 [BDF]):
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Your deadline is likely approaching!
--ACE students: Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
--Review your "Irony Notes" page. A multiple choice assessment aiming to measure the following will occur next class (Tuesday, 2/6 [ACE] or Wednesday, 2/7 [BDF]):
- your ability to define the three main types of irony
- your ability to recognize each of the types of irony in action
- "When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young" (Maya Angelou).
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Your deadline is likely approaching!
--ACE students: Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
NEXT FEW WEEKS:
- Writing returned/revised in waves
- Wave 2--grammar hammer as per common errors
- Mastering irony
- Short works--The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Unit
- Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"
- Saki's "The Interlopers"
