We took notes on Jonathan Swift and watched a dvd called When Hockey Comes to Belfast. We started reading his essay A Modest Proposal. Read the first two pages of the essay.
Take notes on the object of Swift's satire, which means whenever you see irony, understatement, sarcasm, hyperbole, wit, or humour, take note and decide what he's making fun of.
Second, despite the objective narrator, called the "projector", Swift becomes subjective when exposing his loathing of the Irish people. Find examples of these changes in tone. Explain what he is ridiculing about the Irish.
Tomorrow, we'll finish the essay and begin a creative writing assignment which will be due next Friday. You are to write your own satirical proposal which provides a solution to a pet peeve you have. Look for the criteria sheet on the blog tomorrow if you will be absent.
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