Showing posts with label Gift of the Magi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gift of the Magi. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Show you understand irony by writing a Gift of the Magi story!

Today in English II, we spent some time going over the 3 types of irony:

  1. Verbal Irony
  2. Dramatic Irony
  3. Situational Irony

We then listened to Alanis Morisette's non-ironic Ironic and then read O. Henry's famous story, The Gift of the Magi, which looks a little similar to this:



Your assignment, then, is to write your own Gift of the Magi story. Let's see how original and creative you can be with it!