1. Launch Thursday 11/3/2016
Write two different sentences incorporating 2 of the SAT words of the day from the green papers.

2. Unit Two: Challenge of Understanding Emotions

3. Objective
I can examine the elements of humor to analyze how a writer creates humor.

4. Turn and Talk
What makes something a situation, joke or television/movie) funny? Explain.

5. Humor Authors use certain techniques to create humor in their work.
Take out your foldable with your humor terms
Review the definitions of high and low comedy.
Sort the vocabulary into one (1) of two (2) categories- high comedy or low comedy

6. Humor Vocabulary
Use dictionary.com, google or Wikipedia to define the humor terms on your resource sheet.
The completion of this handout will count as your grade!
You will create a foldable of the humor vocabulary to use throughout the unit. Write the word on one side and the definition on the other.

7. Situational Humor
When a story places a character in an unlikely situation in which he or she obviously does not belong

8. Physical Mishap
Collisions, slapstick, and pratfalls

9. Coincidence
A remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection
Example: Two exes end up at the same party

10. Caricatures
A narrow view of a person that draws on stereotypes; exaggerated characters

11. Incongruity When something is illogical or out of place
Example: A girl from the city is forced to move to the country.

12. Dramatic Irony
When the audience knows something the character doesn’t

13. Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Example of Oxymoron:

14. Malaproprisms
The confusion of two words that sound alike but mean different things
Example: Rainy weather can be hard on the sciences. (sinuses)

15. Puns
A deliberate play on words or well-known expressions that carry a double meaning

16. One Liners/Punch Lines
A short joke or witty remark/ the final phrase of a joke that provides the humor

17. Hyperbole
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

18. Sorting Activity
Read the differences between high comedy and low comedy. Then, sort the elements of humor into each category.

19. Twit Twit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0r44BmTY00
Watch the short clip. As you view the clip, circle the words or elements that you notice in the resource sheet,
Then, complete parts I and II of your resource sheet.

20. I-Ready
Get your folder and log on to your I-Ready account. Work on your current lesson. I will begin filling in your progress charts. After successful completion of every ten (10) lessons, you will be able to choose an incentive for your hard work.