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Warm up 1. Get a laptop up and running; place on countertop. 2. Take out all EA materials (blue G/O & blue outline) 3. Take a look at your returned thesis statements. Revise as necessary. 4. ***If you haven’s submitted a thesis yet, write one and put it in the bin for feedback.
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Humorous Anecdote thesis statements
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Peck’s short story, “Priscilla and the Wimps,” uses multiple techniques to amuse the audience including comic characters, comic situations, and comic language.
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Richard Peck uses comic characters like Melvin, comic situations like irony, and comic language like puns to illustrate how comedic his short story is.
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O. Henry was able to create a humorous story by having the characters, Bill, Johnny, and Sam create irony and slapstick along with a powerful mix of banter and hyperbole in order to display this laughable anecdote.
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O. Henry uses comic characters, comic situations, and comic language to help illustrate his short story in a comedic way.
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Turn to page 289 of SB text. Add two grammatical components that you are going to work toward for this EA. Examples: semi-colons, appositives, introductory subordinate clauses, prepositional phrases, active voice, coordinating conjunctions, etc...
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Open a NEW GoogleDoc. Title it: Unit5EA1yourlastname Share it with: mmcmaster@qcsd.org
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