Lesson Plan III
Exploring Irony
To begin teaching this literary term named irony teachers should start with the familiar irony; the one that occurs in our houses, with our family members, friends:
Anecdote: My daughter was denied to bake a cake while I was gone. She disobeyed, and in my return smelled, and exclaimed: "That's what I need?" pulling with a special glove a melting hot pot, full of what's no more -jewelry. She has baked the most
expensive cake in the world.-"That's great!," would become an irony. I will ask the students if they have lived and ironical situation.
Here is where irony is introduced as literary term.
The teacher has to request the students to feel the atmosphere of the circumstance. "That's what I need" is the opposite of what the mother really thinks. It is hilarious when the teacher uses tone to offer them double scenario.
Verbal, situational and dramatically are the three status of irony I will ask the students to concentrate in their thoughts while I read the poem "Today is Very Boring" .
http://heatheranne.freeservers.com/childrens/todayisboring.htm
Here is the first paragraph from the poem:
Today is very boring,
it's a very boring day,
there is nothing much to look at,
there is nothing much to say,
there's a peacock on my sneakers,
there's a penguin on my head,
there's a dormouse on my doorstep,
I am going back to bed.
We will be creating new verses, with a maximum of five and a minimum of 2. The first blank is going to have a verb and the next whatever the imagination can reach:
"Today is a very boring day
it's a very boring day
there is nothing to _______
there is a______________
I am going back to bed."
the students will create an ironical piece that might have not sense. Every one of the students will read or say the stanza to record the non sense of irony created by the specific group of students.
We will end the irony lesson by listening to our creation.
This activity takes 40 minutes or two Literary Terms periods. There is always flexibility in the way of teaching Literary Terms.
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