Read quietly the reading strategies handouts on your desk. Choose two strategies to use that you might think could be helpful to your reading.
Essential Question: What strategies can I use to navigate difficult texts?
Agenda:
- Group work: In different groups from yesterday, answering the following questions regarding the article you read:
- What is the article spoofing?
- What types of information does this article assume its audience already has?
- What is this article's tone?
- Which techniques of satire are used in this article?
- Brainstorm: Have your parents ever given you advice?
- Group Work: Choose what article you'd like to read.
- Underline phrases or sentences that characterize it as satirical.
- In one sentence, summarize what serious commentary Twain is making.
- On your own: Research five political events that have happened recently. Locate caricatures for them and save the pictures.
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