English 12

Today was picture day, so classes were a bit shorter.

Starter: My favorite color is green, almost all of the rooms in my house are painted a shade of it.

• Overview of A Modest Proposal (p. 430 in textbook)
• Jonathan Swift write this for shock value to bring attention to the Irish famine crisis
• A Modest Proposal is not modest at all, so uses the understatement technique
• Swift uses invective to insult the poor (first page)
• Small groups will "jigsaw" the rest of the article
• In 5th period, groups were assigned

Copy of A Modest Proposal Text

YouTube link to audio of text