This week we chipped away at the big project we got last week. Grace and I focused this week on the humor aspect. The informative packet talked mostly about irony and its different types. So I feel like I have a good idea of what irony is, but identifying it in the short stories is not as easy. I could tell the story was ironic, however, I couldn't pinpoint exactly how. I think another close read could help with finding the humor. For example, The Drunkard was one of the stories I read this week. I know the humor in it has something to do with the fact that the dad was an alcoholic and then the son got drunk, ended up hurting himself and embarrassing the dad. So maybe the answer is that the dad finally understood what his family feels about his relationship to alcohol? I guess that it's a good thing we have a partner in this project so we can toss around ideas The free write this week was a lot easier than the PoW's we normally do. I thinks that's partly because it was on a book we has spent 6 weeks reading and also partly because we got to choose the prompt we wanted to write about. We had more text to pull information from and it was text that was enjoyable to read. But like everything, it was a little rough since it was my first time writing one. So I expect the next 6 weeks free write to go better. Irony
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Josephine
10/25/2016 05:03:42 am
Hi Lauryn,
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