Satire Box
Explore (School Appropriate) examples of satire in your box
Menu Assignment
Menu Assignment:
- ----In your own words, define satire.
- ----Find a satiric television show and upload an image from the show.
- ----Research the tools of a satirist (indirect, direct, reversal, utopianism, etc) and present
those tools in a visually appealing way (a Wordle, or Word Art?).
- ----Find three satiric cartoons, or images and explain what they are satirizing.
- ----Attach a school appropriate video that helped you understand the definition of satire.
- ----Create your own satire (maybe a meme, or a paragraph, or a cartoon).
- ----Research and present the Biography of Senator Joseph McCarthy
- ----Find an article that explains the difference between communism versus other forms of
governing.
- ----Find a video that explains how the Crucible is satiric.
- ----Explain in your own words how the Crucible is satiric.

Find one Television Show or Movie that is primarily Satiric (or uses satire).
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-simpsons-fxx-paid-750-million-for-552-episode-marathon-2014-4
Find three visuals that you understand and explain how they are satiric:
How to Spot a Criminal http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/s/satire.asp This is a play on words. Most of the time this phrase is figurative, so to use it literally is humorous. | Goodnight ipad This is making fun of how children no longer read bedtime stories, but how the bedtime stories are read to them (or they are just interacting with their iPods). Droyd, A. (2011). Goodnight ipad. Retrieved from: http://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-iPad-Parody-next-generation/dp/0399158561 | Moona Lisa This is a parody of the Mona Lisa, and a play on words with Mona (Moo- the sound the cows make). http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/02/mona-lisa-exhibit.html |
How to Spot a Criminal
This is a play on words. Most of the time this phrase is figurative, so to use it literally is humorous.
Goodnight ipad
Droyd, A. (2011). Goodnight ipad. Retrieved from: http://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-iPad-Parody-next-generation/dp/0399158561
Moona Lisa
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/02/mona-lisa-exhibit.html
Create your own example
Display the tools of satire (reversal, parody, irony, etc) in a pleasant way.
