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remaining paragraphs and they should not look at their books. Read aloud: A three-legged dog walks into an old West saloon and says, “I’m looking for the man who shot my paw.” If students do not understand or laugh, point out the lines in the text and invite them to read this for themselves.
5 Go back to the beginning of paragraph 12. Instruct students to continue annotating as you read
aloud. Read paragraphs 12–15. Once students have had the chance to complete their annotations, ask each student to volunteer something they annotated. If no one asks about the words lived through explain that we use this expression to talk about someone having survived a hardship or made it through a difficult time. Pair students
of mixed proficiency levels and have them work together to Round Robin Read paragraphs 16–26 and annotate them. Circulate around the class and ask guiding questions and offer answers to questions and explanations as needed.
DIFFErEnTIaTE Interactingin Meaningful Ways: Exchanging Information and Ideas
6 Say: In an essay, a writer makes several points to support a main idea and gives examples to support those points. It is important to understand the main points and to identify and restate supporting examples. Often it is helpful to retell information from the essay using your own words. We call this paraphrasing. Review the first two paragraphs with students and remind them that this is the introduction and that the question at the end is what the rest of the essay addresses. Say: To paraphrase, I can say: People all over the world laugh. They understand that laughing means that a person thinks something is funny. They understand this even if they don’t understand the other person’s language.
7 Discretely group students by proficiency level. Distribute a Paraphrasing Map Graphic Organizer to each student. Explain that each group will work to paraphrase the information
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• Keep a straight face—Deliver the joke deadpan, or without emotion. That way, any strangeness in the joke will seem even stranger because the person telling it doesn’t seem to notice.
• Don’t laugh at your own joke—Let your audience decide whether it is funny or foolish—or both.
33 Theories and techniques aside, much about humor remains a mystery. According to Hiestand, Carson many times said, “I don’t understand what makes comedy a sure thing. There’s no 100-percent surefire formula.” Meanwhile, for most of us, laughter is never a problem. It does not need to be solved, just enjoyed.
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