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MAPS Study Session Sharon Johnston, Ed.D. March 15, 2008

Horatian or Juvenalian: That is the Question. MAPS Study Session Sharon Johnston, Ed.D. March 15, 2008. Essential Questions. How successful are students in recognizing satire? How do we engage students in the study of satire?.

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MAPS Study Session Sharon Johnston, Ed.D. March 15, 2008

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  1. Horatian or Juvenalian: That is the Question MAPS Study SessionSharon Johnston, Ed.D. March 15, 2008

  2. Essential Questions • How successful are students in recognizing satire? • How do we engage students in the study of satire?

  3. “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.” Swift, Jonathan

  4. How successful are students in recognizing satire? Question 2,2005 Article from The Onion According to a table leader on the question, over 50% of the students did not recognize the satire.

  5. Prompt/Question 2, 2005 The following article is a mock press release from The Onion, a publication devoted to humor and satire. Read the article carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze the strategies used in the article to satirize how products are marketed to consumers.

  6. Clues in the prompt • Mock essay • Publication devoted to humor and satire • Strategies used . . . to satirize how products are marketed.

  7. 1st Paragraph of Article “Stressed and sore-footed Americans everywhere are clamoring for the exciting new MagnaSoles shoe inserts, which stimulate and soothe the wearer’s feet using no fewer than five forms of pseudoscience.”

  8. Where does the article fit in the Range of Satire Continuum?Rationale? HORATIAN JUVENALIAN (Gentle).................................................(Bitter) Horace “tell the truth with a smile” Juvenal “bitter, ironical”

  9. How can students improve how they write about satire? • Study satirical devices and identify them in literature. • Imitate Swift (Write a satire.) • Read and interpret satire, including contemporary examples. • Analyze point of view and determine if satire is gentle or bitter, Horatian or Juvenalian • Others?

  10. Classroom Activity Students • Identify the target of the satire. • Identify the satirical devices. • Identify the point of view—the type of satire. • Place the passage on the range of satire continuum. (only one possible placement?) • Articulate the rationale for placement.

  11. Have Fun With Satire “Satire’s my weapon, but I’m too discreetTo run amuck, and tilt at all I meet;” Alexander Pope

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