Wednesday, November 16, 2016
First up-warm-up-Mindful Minutes:
1.
2.
ACT practice. Using your device, go to SOCRATIVE for students (https://b.socrative.com/login/student/) You can
also down load the app on your device for the future. Join room ACPAPLANG. Complete ACT practice.
If you do not have a device, grab a slip of scratch paper from the front table, SIT IN THE FRONT CIRCLE, and
complete the practice as I display the questions on the board. You will turn in the practice today so make sure your
full name is on the paper.
Today’s Activities:
1. Mark Twain’s satire
2. Satire continued - two types
3. Irish Satirist
Homework:
1. Add another source (or 2) to your Annotated Bib by Friday
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Success / Club period.
Today’s Club/Success Activity:
1. Mini assembly for juniors & sophomores today.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
First up-warm-up-Mindful Minutes:
1.
2.
ACT practice. Using your device, go to SOCRATIVE for students (https://b.socrative.com/login/student/) You can
also down load the app on your device for the future. Join room ACPAPLANG. Complete ACT practice.
If you do not have a device, grab a slip of scratch paper from the front table, SIT IN THE FRONT CIRCLE, and
complete the practice as I display the questions on the board. You will turn in the practice today so make sure your
full name is on the paper.
Today’s Activities:
1. Mark Twain’s satire
2. Two types of Satire
3. Irish Satirist
Homework:
1. Add another source (or 2) to your Annotated Bib by Friday.
19th Century Satirists
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Lightly sarcastic, although has moments of
harsh, sardonic satire — Huckleberry Finn.
“Advice to Youth”
Satire - two types
Two types of satire - Horatian & Juvenalian
Horatian satire--After the Roman satirist Horace: Satire in which the voice is indulgent,
tolerant, amused, and witty. The speaker holds up to gentle ridicule the absurdities and
follies of human beings, aiming at producing in the reader not the anger of a Juvenal, but
a wry smile...origination with Horace (in Latin literature: Satire)
Juvenalian satire, in literature, any bitter and ironic criticism of contemporary persons
and institutions that is filled with personal invective, angry moral indignation, and
pessimism. The name alludes to the Latin satirist Juvenal, who, in the 1st century ad,
brilliantly denounced Roman society, the rich and powerful, and the discomforts and
dangers of city life. Samuel Johnson modeled his poem London on Juvenal’s third satire
and The Vanity of Human Wishes on the 10th. Gulliver’s Travels (1726) established
Jonathan Swift as the master of Juvenalian satire. In the 20th century, Karl Kraus’s
indictments of the prevailing corruption in post-World
Satire = the ABSURD
Satire - One of the greatest pieces
About A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal was written by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), who is well-known as the author of
the satirical political fantasy, Gulliver's Travels. Swift published the Modest Proposal in 1729 as a
pamphlet (a kind of essay in an unbound booklet). At this time, and for many years afterward,
Ireland (not an independent country) was far poorer than England. Most people born there were
Roman Catholics and employed as agricultural labourers or tenant farmers. The landlords
(landowners) were paid from the produce of the land, at rates which the workers could rarely afford.
This ruling class were usually Protestants. Many of them were not born in Ireland, nor did they live
there permanently. If the labourers lost their work, other poor people could always take up the work.
No social security system existed and starvation was as common then as in the Third World today.
Swift knows, in writing the Proposal, that in living memory, Irish people had been driven to
cannibalism.
The above information provides you the Speaker background and Occasion.
What do you anticipate that Swift will “correctively ridicule" (satirize). What will
be his full purpose?
Satire - One of the greatest pieces
Create a chart that compares the analysis of speaker (what is being said) to satirizer (what is being criticized)
Analyze the Speaker in the text
(the "voice" that Swift is taking onliteral argument)
1. Main claim
2. Supporting evidence and
reasoning
Analyze the author, Swift -- what
is HE actually arguing
(the satirical, "corrective"
argument)
1. Main claim
2. Supporting evidence/criticism
Satire - One of the greatest pieces
What are the strategies Swift used to Satirize the Ruling class of
protestants in 1729?
(think in terms of verbs – what was he doing?)