Exploring the features of satire

Features of satire - a good explanation is here, from the softschools website.  As you read through the short but very useful website, I want you to think about and check your understanding of the following terms:

• vice
• foolishness
• ridicule
• humour
• social change
• implied/implication
• adulterer
• prideful
• wit
• irony
• comic juxtaposition
• understatement
• diminution
• inflation
• grotesque
• parody

I will have a set of paper cards for you to write definitions on and organise into groups.

Then we are going to explore The Daily Show, The Onion and the Civilian.

In the second part of our double lesson today, each student will select one modern example of satire. You will focus on the:

• purpose of the text
• three key ways that the writer/creator develops their ideas
• how successful you think the text is at achieving its purpose, with evidence

I will set up a Socrative task for you to add your answers in written form.