Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Irony via The Oatmeal

Due to popular demand, I'm posting the Oatmeal comic about irony that I showed the English II classes earlier this week. Click either the picture to the left or this link to see this and all the other crazy comics of this awesome site!

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!