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UNIT 4
The Challenge of Comedy
Visual Prompt: What makes people laugh?
Unit Overview
If laughter is truly the best medicine, then a study of challenges would not be complete without a close examination of the unique elements of comedy. Overcoming challenges is often easier when we are able to look at the humorous side of life. However, finding humor is not always easy; it can be a challenge in itself. In this unit, you will learn how authors create humor and how they use humor to reveal a universal truth (theme).
Teacher
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UNIT 4
Read aloud the Unit Overview, asking students to mark the text
by highlighting words and phrases that help them predict what the unit will be about. Share responses in partner, small-group, or whole-class discussion.
Have students look at the photograph and respond to the visual prompt. You may want to have students think-pair-share to write
a short response or discuss their responses as a class.
TO Teacher
Ask students if they can think of times when humor has helped them to overcome a challenge. Why does humor make it easier to deal with life’s challenges?
eLL Support
ELD Modes and Processes
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Collaborative: Students work together to analyze an essay and to understand idioms. Students also collaborate to evaluate class performances and to exchange information about creating and evaluating class performances.
Interpretive: Students demonstrate active listening to analyze a comedy. Students also analyze the language in a poem.
Productive: Students write to analyze humor
in essays and stories and to compare films. Students also write to summarize a story 15/04/15 1:47 AM and to analyze the key idea and details in an informational text.
Structuring Cohesive Texts: Students examine the structure of expository writing. Students also work to add transitions to their writing.
Expanding and Enriching Ideas: Students expand sentences using adverbs and adverb phrases.
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