1. Day 33: English Literature 1.Finish Macbeth project presentations and monologue deliveries today 2.Pull up/get out your notes over Monday’s reading assignment of Puritan to Enlightenment period and log on to Moodle 3.Review ‘activity’ over Puritan-Enlightenment period (notes allowed) 4.Puritanism to the Enlightenment 1640-1780 review via PowerPoint (general ideas) 5.Parody examined…often in song 6.Satire explained (update your definitions log) in relation to A Modest Proposal 7.Discuss your personal modest proposal: Creative writing (due Monday at the beginning of class) Look at past examples Composition/writing work time English Lit – Periods 1 & 5

2. 1.Read Building Background, page 565 2.Review satire / Preview Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels via ppt 3.Homework: Read from Gulliver’s Travels, p. 575-582 Answer questions 1-7 on p. 583 Prepare for reading quiz tomorrow over Swift’s Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels

3. Learning Targets Learning target: Students will understand, identify, and create satire and parody. Learning target: Students will understand, identify, and create satire and parody.

4. Parody Parody: a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule Coolio’s “Gangster’s Paradise” “Gangster’s Paradise” Weird Al’s “Amish Paradise” “Amish Paradise”

5. Gangster’s Paradise As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain But that's just perfect for an Amish like me You know, I shun fancy things like electricity At 4:30 in the morning I'm milkin' cows Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows... fool And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699 We been spending most our lives Living in an Amish paradise I've churned butter once or twice Living in an Amish paradise It's hard work and sacrifice Living in an Amish paradise We sell quilts at discount price Living in an Amish paradise Amish Paradise As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long, That even my mama thinks that my mind is gone But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of You better watch how you're talking and where you're walking Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk I really hate to trip but I gotta loc As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like On my knees in the night saying prayers in the streetlight Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise Look at the situation they got me facin' I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets So I gotta be down with the hood team Too much television watching got me chasing dreams I'm an educated fool with money on my mind

6. Satire Definition: A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social change. Purpose: Often tries to persuade the reader to do or believe something by showing the opposite view as absurd, or—even more forcefully—vicious and inhumane. "Satire is a lesson, parody is a game." - Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions, 1973

7. Satirical Techniques Analogy: Comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain aspects Exaggeration: Overstatement—making a bigger deal out of something than it really is Understatement: Language that makes something seem less important than it really is Reversal Irony: Discrepancy between expectation and reality – Verbal: between what is said and what is meant – Situational: what is expected to happen and what really does – Dramatic: what appears to be true and what is really true Distortion Anti-climax: when something trivial/comical occurs at the point in a narrative when one expects something important or serious

8. Swift’s Satire: “A Modest Proposal” Written in 1729 in Dublin, Ireland. During this time, many Irish people blamed their economic problems on England, claiming English landlords charged high rent, imposed too high of taxes, and English laws made trade too difficult. The Irish resented the way England acted toward Roman Catholics. – Catholics were not allowed to vote, marry a Protestant, join the armed forces, bare arms, even for protection, or be educated as Catholics abroad. – They make up 70% of the population of around 2 million, yet own only 5% of the land. – "We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." Swift shows, in his Modest Proposal, how disgusted he was with England. He does this through the use of satire. Effective format!

9. Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” One of the most effective (and unforgettable) satiric pieces in the English language. “A Modest Proposal” on pages 564-573 Worksheet on Moodle…begin today, finish and submit by the beginning of class on Friday. Create your own Modest Proposal, due Monday at the beginning of class.

10. Your Personal Modest Proposal Brainstorm for ideas you can write about. Where is there a problem in America, and what could you radically propose to change this problem? Formulate your own “Modest Proposal” and write it in this journal. You must use Swift’s satiric style, but the satire must be milder than Swift’s and directed at institutions and individuals in the public arena (do not propose to "fix" the problem by systematically killing or eating particular groups of humans). Whichever style you choose, you must structure your arguments in a sustained and persuasive way and provide relevant support. The nature of each proposal will determine the length of the response, but these should be well-thought out with a multiple-paragraph approach. Remember, you will need what all structured essay responses need, an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. Have fun with this and come up with some clever solutions to correct something in society that needs changed.