Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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Warm-up: Read Onion article carefully. In journals, explain how this is an example of parody. Use at least ten examples from the text to support your answer, and consider particularly:
a) How does this parody, although a joke, cleverly imitate the language, subject, focus, and tone of a political news article? What are some of the ideas, practices, behaviors, realities that the article imitates, pokes fun at, or comments on?
b) How do we know this a joke?

Classwork: Discuss Mann and Botstien, create a list of debatable topics from the essays, keep reading the education conversation

Homework: Read LOC pg 155-163 and complete the questions for each of the 4 essays/photos - 18 questions total

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