1. Warm up 1. Get a laptop up and running; place on countertop. 2. Take out all EA materials (blue G/O & blue outline) 3. Take a look at your returned thesis statements. Revise as necessary. 4. ***If you haven’s submitted a thesis yet, write one and put it in the bin for feedback.

2. Humorous Anecdote thesis statements

3. Peck’s short story, “Priscilla and the Wimps,” uses multiple techniques to amuse the audience including comic characters, comic situations, and comic language.

4. Richard Peck uses comic characters like Melvin, comic situations like irony, and comic language like puns to illustrate how comedic his short story is.

5. O. Henry was able to create a humorous story by having the characters, Bill, Johnny, and Sam create irony and slapstick along with a powerful mix of banter and hyperbole in order to display this laughable anecdote.

6. O. Henry uses comic characters, comic situations, and comic language to help illustrate his short story in a comedic way.

7. Turn to page 289 of SB text. Add two grammatical components that you are going to work toward for this EA. Examples: semi-colons, appositives, introductory subordinate clauses, prepositional phrases, active voice, coordinating conjunctions, etc...

8. Open a NEW GoogleDoc. Title it: Unit5EA1yourlastname Share it with: mmcmaster@qcsd.org