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acTIVITY 4.10 continued
Ex Have students respond to their discussion partners by
adding relevant information and paraphrasing idioms and multiple- meaning words. Encourage students to take notes based on the discussion.
Br Have partners choose a few particularly silly lines or images based on the idioms
and explain how the author
uses them to create an effect.
Have students respond to their discussion partners by adding relevant information, paraphrasing key ideas, and providing useful feedback. Encourage students to take notes based on the discussion.
Support Havestudentspointout any words or expressions
in the poem that are difficult to understand and discuss them as a class.
Stretch Challenge students to write their own poem,
using idiomatic expressions as Prelutsky has done and share them with the class.
7 When you finish reading, form groups of two or three students. Have students work collaboratively to complete the Working from
the Text questions. In observing collaborative discussions, check to hear that students are able to identify and analyze the effect of wordplay using precise humor diction.
8 Review rhythm and ask students how the rhythm of Prelutsky’s poem adds to the humorous effect.
9 Have students create and share sketches that illustrate one of the puns from the poem.
0 Direct students to revisit the Elements of Humor graphic organizer in Activity 4.11 and add specific examples of wordplay, puns, and one-liners.
306 SpringBoard® English Language Arts Grade 8 ScaFFOLDING The TexT-DePeNDeNT QUeSTIONS
what a “tape deck is?” What knowledge would someone have to have to know what “brake shoes” are? What makes a pun high comedy?
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depend on an audience’s understanding of both possible meanings of a word or phrase. Why might someone older be more likely to understand what a “tape deck” or “brake shoes” are? What does this indicate about
the level of comedy involved in puns? Why would someone have to be older to understand
aCTIVITy 4.10
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elements of Humor: Comic Wordplay
my Notes
2. Key Ideas and Details: Puns depend on an audience’s understanding of both possible meanings of a word or phrase. Why might someone older be more likely to understand what a “tape deck” or “brake shoes” are? What does this indicate about the level of comedy involved in puns?
Puns are high-level comedy because the reader usually has to access prior knowledge in order to understand the humor. “Tape decks” would be familiar to someone who was alive before the ‘90s and “brake shoes” is a term recognizable to someone who is old enough to drive. RL.8.1
Working from the Text
3. Referencing the text as an example, define pun and create some examples of your own.
A pun is the humorous use of a word or words to suggest another word with the same sound or a different meaning. Examples:
“Don’t let Cinderella play baseball. She always runs away from the ball.”
Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at them and says, “I’m sorry, gentlemen, only one carrion allowed per passenger.”
Did you hear that NASA recently put a bunch of Holsteins into low earth orbit? They called it the herd shot ’round the world.
4. Mark the text by highlighting at least three humorous puns that you can visualize.
5. Sketch at least one of the puns in the margin of the poem or on a separate piece of paper.
6. In your discussion groups, share your sketches and read aloud the corresponding pun. Explain the two meanings of the word or phrase that creates the pun. Be sure to use precise diction and discuss how the author uses puns for humorous effect.
7. As a group, review the poem and discuss the puns that you notated with question marks. Try to collaborate to make meaning of these.
Analyzing a Humorous Skit
You will next read and/or listen to the skit “Who’s on First?” by Abbott and Costello.
8. Based on the title of the skit, what do you think is the subject?
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