1. Mrs. Humphreys
Irony

2. Essential Question
What is the difference between dramatic, verbal, and situation irony? Which one is used more in stories?

3. State Standard Addressed
The student will be able to:
Differentiate among verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.

4. Educational Hook
Think of a time in your life when you expected one thing to happen, but something else entirely took place.
Describe the event on your own sheet of paper.

5. Irony
What is irony?
The difference between what one would expect to happen and what actually happens

6. Situational Irony What is situational irony?
When one’s efforts produces the opposite results of what was expected.
Example:
A woman has been saving painfully to buy a golden watch. Just hours after buying the watch, her daughter arrives home with the same watch as a gift for her!

7. Verbal Irony What is verbal irony?
A difference between what is said and what is actually meant
SARCASM
Example:
When it is a dark, gloomy, rainy, day and someone says, "Wow, what a gorgeous day!"

8. Dramatic Irony What is dramatic irony?
When the audience knows something that the characters do not
Example: Horton Hears a Who
In Horton Hears a Who, Horton seems to be losing his mind because he is talking to himself. We, the audience, know that Horton really is talking to little people on a bubble, but everyone else thinks he's crazy.

9. Learning Check QUIZ!
Clip from Mean Girls

10. Learning Check QUIZ!
You have stayed up all night cramming for a test the next day, and the test is actually not until the next week.

11. Learning Check QUIZ!

12. Learning Check QUIZ!
Clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

13. Learning Check QUIZ!

14. Learning Check QUIZ!
On a TV talk show, a guest thinks she is there to have a makeover, but the audience knows that she will soon be confronted by her cheating husband and his girlfriend.

15. Learning Check QUIZ!
Dorothy travels to a wizard and fulfills his challenging demands to go home, before discovering she had the ability to go back home all the time. The Scarecrow longs for intelligence, only to discover he is already a genius, and the Tin Woodsman longs to be capable of love, only to discover he already has a heart. The Lion, who at first appears to be a whimpering coward, turns out to be bold and fearless. The people in Emerald Citybelieved the Wizard to be a powerful deity, only to discover that he is a bumbling, eccentric old man with no special powers at all.

16. Learning Check QUIZ!

17. Learning Check QUIZ!

18. Guided Practice
Let’s listen to the song “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette.
After the song is over, we will evaluate it with your shoulder partner.
Please note at least seven examples of irony. You should note which kind of irony is being featured in the song.

19. Morissette’s “Ironic”
Answer the following questions with your shoulder partner:
What kind of irony is being featured in the song “Ironic”? ___________________________________________
Which situation in the song did you think was the most “ironic” to you (based on the definition)?
Which situation in the song did your partner think was the most “ironic”?

20. Group Work
Now, you and your district will select a story to read together.
Irony Activity and Checklist

21. Short Story: Shoulder Partners
Select one short story from the list below:
“The Hitchhiker”
“Button, Button”
“The Monkey’s Paw”
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
“Miss Brill”
“Possibility of Evil”
“The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World” 
Complete the Short Story SHEET TOMORROW!