Humour Assignment

Humour Unit Final Assignment

Inquiry Question: What is funny?

Your task is to answer the above question by creating something funny and uploading it to your blog.

Step 1:  Produce/create something funny.

Step 2: Write a 1-2 page explanation of why your creation is funny.  Explain what type of comedy you have created and why it meets the criteria of that type of comedy.

Step 3:  Reflect.  In your explanation, include a 1-2 paragraph reflection on the experience of creating something humourous.  What was challenging/easy about the process?

Your creation can be a song, a video production, a short story, a script, a comic, a fake news story (either print or video), or anything else creative (see your teacher).

It must be satire, farce, comedy of ideas or comedy of manners.  The humour should be appropriate for the school environment.

You will complete this task alone or in pairs.

Examples:

Jehna
Adam
Linde

Third Satire Blog Post

Find and link to two examples of satire, one video and one article.  You can choose anything, but keep it appropriate.  Explain why each is satire and decide if each example is funny?

Second Satire Blog Post - Current Event Satire

Like Jonathon Swift, satirists like to highlight the absurdity of an issue by satirizing the issue of event.  Check out the News Brief: BP Ready To Resume Spilling Oil.

Now, find a short news item, link to it in your blog, and then write you own short satirical version of the story.

First Satire Blog Post

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.)

Facebook Template - Much Ado Character

Complete the Facebook Template you will find in PCR as a character from Much Ado About Nothing.

Assessment:

Accuracy of character /5
Relevance to the play /5
Creativity /5

/15

What is funny?

In a well-developed paragraph on your blog, explain what you think is funny. Be very specific. Include three examples of things that are funny by linking to them within your paragraph.

Much Ado About Nothing eText

Click here for the text.

Qualities of a Leader

Read the following article called: Testing Their Leadership

In pairs, compare Obama and Palin based on Chopra's analysis of leadership policies.

The Migrant Experience

Read the article about the Migrant Experience.
Complete the following task:

Write a 6-8 line blog post explaining what your life is like in California as a migrant worker. Why did you go to California? Is it working out for you?

English 9: Jan 12th: The American Dream

This is your first Of Mice and Men blog post. I want you to practice your google search skills and in a well-developed paragraph blog post, answer the question: What is the American Dream?

Consider traditional concepts of the Dream and what it is today.

LOTF - Short Story Connection

Read the attached story, The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, and answer the following questions in a Word document or separate piece of paper. Hand them in at the end of class.
1. What unusual technology in the story suggests a futuristic setting? How does the nursery work? Is it functioning properly in the story?
2. What mental and emotional effects does the veldt have on a) the children b) the parents and c) the psychologist?
3. What explanation can you give for the father's wallet and the mother's scarf being in the nursery? What does this suggest about the events to follow?
4. How does the author create and maintain suspense?
5. Find allusions to mythology and children's literature and explain their roles in the story.
6. What comments does Bradbury's story make about a) the generation gap b) the nature of children and c) the influence of technology on people today? What is your response to each of these comments?
7. Are the children evil to begin with or does the situation/environment make them evil?