"Harrison Bergeron" and Satire

We opened up class today with a look at satire.  We now have a working definition that reads as follows:

1. the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

We also listed off several examples including Honest Trailers, The Daily Show, and, of course, "Harrison Bergeron".  The left-handed Green Goblin article from The Onion is also a pretty awesome example.  You can look at it again here.  

We then started discussing "Harrison Bergeron".  We seemed to have a decent understanding of the plot and started to move to some deeper discussion questions like the ones I posted on yesterday's blog.  We'll wrap those up tomorrow, and then you'll do a little work with either a picture or some quotes.  I'll decide later on tonight.  

Keep working on those QBTs.  They will be starting for all of you in five days.  

Until next time...