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aCTIVITy 4.12
Learning Targets
• Reflect on learning and make connections.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to complete Embedded Assessment 2 successfully.
Making Connections
You have written an analysis of a humorous text, which required you to know and understand how a writer uses words, characters, and situations to create a humorous effect. Now you will have an opportunity to understand humor from a different perspective—that of a performer.
Essential Questions
1. Reflect on your understanding of the first Essential Question from Activity 4:1: How do writers and speakers use humor to convey a truth? How has your understanding of humor changed over the course of this unit?
2. Think about the second Essential Question from Activity 4:1 and respond to it: What makes an effective performance of a Shakespearean comedy?
Developing Vocabulary
3. Reflect on and list all the new humor-related vocabulary you have learned. Use the My Notes section for additional space if needed.
4. Re-sort the unit Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms using the QHT strategy.
my Notes
Q (unfamiliar)
H (familiar)
T (very familiar)
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learNING sTraTeGIes:
TQOHCT_, SCildoes_eARCe_aTdeixntg, Paraphrasing, Graphic Organizer
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