1. Satire Overview Sketch Notes & Whiteboards

2. Add to your unit sketch notes from last week:

3. What is Satire? Examples……. Definition…….
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu

4. Argument Unit
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu

5. Characteristics of Satire
-Humorous
-Criticism of human nature, groups or
individual (pointing out flaws)
-A moral voice
(to create change, not to ridicule)
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu

6. -Jonathan Swift (satirist)
What is meant by this?
“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
-Jonathan Swift (satirist)
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu

7. What is Satire?
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu

8. What is Satire? 10 Best Satires By Michael Honig | Aug 12, 2016
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu

9. Sample #1 (To get the humor, you must be informed
Sample #1 (To get the humor, you must be informed.) What is a millennial? What challenges occurred in their formative years? What stereotypes surround millennials? Video link:

10. Let’s Find Some Examples:
Who or what is the criticism directed at?
What stereotypes does it point out?
What made it humorous?
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu

11. Sample #2 Scan it: To whom? From whom?

12. Sample #3

13. Sample #4

14. Sample #5

15. Who/what’s the criticism directed at? What are the stereotypes?

17. Strategies of Satire Reversal- using the opposite to make a point
Caricature- exaggerating traits of something
Hyperbole- extreme exaggeration
Inversion- reverse the order
Sarcasm- disapproval often given as praise
Understatement- minimizing a situation
Invective- directing speech directly at the
thing that denounces it
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu

18. Let’s Find Some Examples:
Who or what is the criticism directed at?
What stereotypes does it point out?
What made it humorous?
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Desmond Tutu

21. Who/what’s the criticism directed at?
What are the stereotypes?