Monday, November 10, Satire / Irony/ POV / theme / Keystone Intro

Objective: By the end of class, students will examine literary elements (irony and POV) in fiction in order to improve literal and interpretive reading comprehension skills and make real world connections

Do Now
Prefixes and Suffixes

Direct Instruction

Satire video

Review all terms for Keystone on handout - highlight ones completed

Guided / Independent

Constructed response for Storyteller by Saki

Choose two and use NEO to type responses:

1. Analyze how Saki uses situational irony to help the reader
understand the theme of The Storyteller.

2. Explain how Saki uses an omniscient narrator to help the reader understand the characters and the relationships between them.

3.  Explain what makes The Storyteller  a satire and how the author uses satire to deliver the theme.

4. Compare and contrast the bachelor's story to the aunt's story and evaluate why the bachelor's story is more successful with the children.

Closure

Review for electronic benchmark on Wednesday.

Exit Pass

Rephrase the theme of the Storyteller. Do you agree with it? why or why not? 

HW = prefix / suffix handout / worksheet