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Community Service Opportunity
The Office of Parent Engagement will be hosting a Family Fun Day at the
Memorial Art Gallery during Spring break, and I am looking for a couple of
student performers. Do you know of student performers in your school that you
would recommend? The audience will range from grade 3-8. It could be a singer,
dancer, etc.
Thank you very much.
~~ CLM
Chrisandra Mareus
Communinty Liaison Specialist/ Parent University Coordinator
Rochester City School District, Office of Parent Engagement
131 West Broad Street
Rochester, NY 14614
(585)
262-8621 (O)
Learning Targets:
1. 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).
2. 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.
3. I can analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument.
4. 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 and persuasiveness of the text.
5. I can write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately.
6. I can present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective.
7. I can determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
Essential question:
quis custodiet ipsos
...Who watches the watchers?
The motto above and the essential question is a quote
from Juvenal's Satire VI. This is a
a tongue-in-cheek reference to both The Daily Currant's
mission to hold the powerful to account and its satirical
nature.
As a review and summation, the overall purpose of satire is
usually to make some kind of moral or political change in
society through the use of critical humor. A satirist will
choose a subject or person with whom he or she finds fault
and use humor to make those faults obvious. In theory,
many satirists hope the humor will have a corrective effect,
almost like a punishment for bad behavior, ultimately
leading people to change the way they behave.
The Daily Currant is an English language online satirical newspaper that covers global politics, business, technology, entertainment, science, health and media. It is accessible from over 190 countries worldwide - now including South Sudan.
"[Their] mission is to ridicule the timid ignorance which obstructs our progress, and promote intelligence - which presses forward."
The Onion 's articles comment on current events, both real and fictional. It parodies traditional news websites with
stories, editorials,op-ed pieces, and man-in-the-street interviews, using a traditional news website layout and an editorial voice modeled after that of the Associated Press.
Its humor often depends on presenting mundane, everyday
events as newsworthy, surreal or alarming.
In class:
1.We are finishing up the satire
unit by looking at two on-line satirical
magazines: The Daily Currant and The
Onion.
2. We'll first read a current
example as a group. applying the
following questions:
following questions:
1. What does the author assume about the attitudes of the audience in the piece? (How do you know this? Particular words or phrases?)
2. What aspect of society is the author satirizing? (evidence?)
3. What is the goal or purpose of the satire? (consider if this is laudable?)
4. What methods/techniques does the author employ to create the satire? (these should be very familiar:
1. parody2. burlesque
3. exaggeration
4. juxtaposition
5. analogy
6. comparison
7. double entendre
5. How effective are the author’s methods? (prior knowledge?)
class article from The Daily Currant
Texas Drops Geography From Public School Curriculum
Beginning in the fall of 2015, the state of Texas will no longer teach geography as a part of its public school curriculum.
The money saved from teaching geography will go to new initiatives to teach youngsters how to hunt and properly use firearms.
Gov. Rick Perry championed the idea, telling The Dallas Star, “Do kids really need to know anything outside of Texas? Cause I sure don’t. We have everything you need right here in God’s state.
“Every Texan should know how to use a firearm and be able to shoot their own food. In this crazy world, you never know what may happen. Terrorists could take out our electric lines, the zombies could invade; you just never know.
“Money spent to teach about surviving the impending apocalypse is more important than where Boston is on a map.”
The state’s teachers’ union responded in a statement, saying, “Kids hated memorizing state capitals. So less of a headache for us. It is a bit sad that geography funding got cut but we have seen plenty of other subjects cut over the years so we are pretty much use to it by now.”
Parents of school-aged children seemed to have mixed reactions to the fact that their children will not learn about anything outside of Texas. Run range assistant manager Tom Youngton of Dallas said, “Damn right I don’t want the school filling my child’s head with foreign places and culture. It’s a liberal trick to make them anti-war and gay.
“Why would you ever want to leave Texas? Except for war, obviously. Then it’s okay to defend our freedom, but do you need to know on a map where the war is? Your job is to kill the enemy, whatever sinful place that may be.”
Many in the more liberal city of Austin are outraged by the elimination of geography.
Waitress Susie Williams said, “How dare they take geography away from our children. They must learn about the world in order to understand, economics, foreign policy, and even sports. How will they even know where our rival football teams are from?
“It makes us look like a bunch of rednecks, which we aren’t, or not all of us. Some of us even have passports.”
3. When we have finished, please go to
The Daily Currant and The Onion and
read any two articles from each.
http://dailycurrant.com/
For each (that's a total of 4), write a
response in paragraph form that
answers the above questions. Make
sure to include the headline and
weave evidence from the selected
articles into your response;
of course making sure you
put them in quotes. These should be
approximately 100 words each.
This is due at the close of class on
Friday. Send along, as usual.
Next week we begin photojournalism
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