Thursday, February 26 The Daily Show

From Aspenleiter

Juniors and Seniors

 

Do you need Community Service hours???

 

What:  SOTA Ambassadors for Parent Teacher Conferences

When:  Thursday, 6:15 – 8:00 PM

Where:  SOTA

 

10 students are needed to assist with ambassador duties such as elevator assistance, giving directions and manning tables in the foyer.

 

Sign up is located on Aspenleiter’s door.

 

Learning Targets: 

1) I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

2) I can analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story.

3) I can analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement)

4) I can establish and use criteria to classify, select, and evaluate texts to make informed judgments about the quality of the pieces.

5) I can analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.

6) I can determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

1. The Daily Show (titled The Daily Show with Jon Stewart since 1999) is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central and  in Canada, The Comedy Network. The half-hour long show premiered on July 21, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 1998. Jon Stewart took over as host in January 1999, making the show more strongly focused on politics and the national media, in contrast with the pop culture focus during Kilborn's tenure. It is currently the longest-running program on Comedy Central, and has won 18 Prime-time Emmy Awards.
   Describing itself as a fake news program, The Daily Show draws its comedy and satire from recent news stories, political figures, media organizations, and often, aspects of the show itself. The show typically opens with a long monologue from Jon Stewart relating to recent headlines and frequently features exchanges with one or more of several correspondents, who adopt absurd or humorously exaggerated takes on current events against Stewart's straight man persona. The final segment is devoted to a celebrity interview, with guests ranging from actors and musicians to nonfiction authors and political figures.
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Assignment: please go to the following link and 

watch the episode of The Daily Show.

Open up a word document, copy and paste in

the following questions, responding as they are 

presented within the show. Send along by the 

end of class on Friday.

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/v9pdbk/february-11--2015---colin-firth

1. The first story concerns a job offer to Jon Stewart, who incidentally is leaving the show.

          How does he handle the offer from Arby's? (words? images? double entendre?  What is his tone?

2. What is the second story about?  What literary allusion does Stewart make? With whom is Governor Stan Brownback juxtaposed? What conclusions can be made from this? (do a bit of research, if you do not know.)

3. There's little physical comedy, when Steward switches over to Alabama? Explain the props and the point.

4. Why do you think the Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Anton Scalia have been mockingly paired? Note the Melatonin Chlamydia!  What is the topical allusion?

5. While the couple waits to be married, they stand before a closed window decorated with Mardi Grad stickers. What does Stewart say to underscore the seriousness of denying same sex marriages and the supposed solemnity of the Lenten season, the most holy of times in Christianity?

6. What is Alabama's "Sharia Law Amendment?" What point is Stewart making in alluding to this law?  ( consider Biblical Law / Constitutional  Law)

Part 2: after the ads, 9:38

7. So what did you make of the Las Vegas students wanting better sex education? Write a thesis statement (main idea) that sums up this segment. (That;s one sentence!)

Part 3: after the next ad.
   quick promo for Colin Firth's film "The Kingsman"   no questions.., celebrity attraction, followed by another ad and then a couple of "50 Shades Valentine's gifts"  no questions, but maybe you have a closing thought. (yes, you do!)