1. Read the story from The Onion
and decide why it is satire. (consider the four techniques of satire.)
Now it's time to write your own.
2. Consider an issue of interest to teens. Now, take a satirical look at that issue and write your own brief article. Check out mine:
Collingwood Student in Perfect Uniform, Shunned
A student who cannot be named in order to protect her identity, found herself shunned by her classmates when she arrived on time to her English 9 Pre AP class with her uniform in correct order. Her cohort chuckled at her tucked in shirt and appropriate skirt length. Her gray knee socks pulled up to her knees seem to be the final straw.
The snickering behind her back progress to all out hostility when she refused to wear her outdoor jacket in class. The students decided to start a petition to ban such inappropriate correct use of the uniform as it made the rest of them look so bad.
And finally
3. Visit your colleagues blogs, read their satirical stories and leave a comment with your perspective (agree or disagree, offer your own ideas or examples.)
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