There are two parts to this week's assignment:

Satire is “a way of making us realize how silly or bad things are - - often by making us laugh at them.” What are some examples from the stories that satirize the real problems documented in the articles that I assigned?

Answer one of the following critical thinking questions about satire:
This video defines several techniques used in satire such as exaggeration, caricature, parody, hyperbole, and verbal irony. What are some examples of these techniques in the stories from Pastoralia?

Watch this video, which gives a brief history of satire and explains different types of satire. Which type of satire do you see in the stories from Pastoralia?

The students who were in favor of adopting the new curriculum wrote editorials for their local newspaper which of these best describes how the information in the editoralw is different from the information in the feature story

In the following line, "so many crazed men, so much shouting, so much brutality, " what type of rhetorical feature is wiesel using to emphasize the image?

Read this passage from "the city without us" by alan weisman: which statement best explains how the structure of the passage supports the author's purpose? a. the passage traces several events in the order that they will occur to highlight how nature conquers human civilization. b. the passage shows that natural forces such as an absence of predators and an increase in the squirrel population can lead to destructive results. c. the passage shows that natural forms such as an absence of predators and human hunters can lead to the reforestation of new york city. d. the passage identifies how two natural forces are co-dependent - the deforestation of new york and the extinction of squirrels.