Thursday, June 25, 2009

Babies? Yum!

The students read Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” many for the first time. Afterwards, we discussed satire, defined as wit founded on send of grotesque or absurd. Satire is useful because it can point out what’s wrong, thereby making a path for a possible solution. Some of its elements are hyperbole, understatement, irony, and stock type.

Prompt: Using “A Modest Proposal” as your model, create a satirical cartoon in three parts in which you introduce a problem, proposal a solution, and show the outcome using the elements of satire discussed in class.










































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