Help with Humor and Editing & Revising
February 22, 2012 | Posted in: Class Updates
Good afternoon! Today, we worked on two challenging activities: editing & revising and the use of humor. Here are some resources that you might find helpful.
EDITING AND REVISING
How to Succeed at Editing and Revising is a document we created in class today that gives kids helpful hints when completing an editing and revising activity.
This sample activity shows how we can find the answer to editing and revising questions in a CMT-style packet. (There are more notes on here than we’d normally add. They’re included to try to represent the kinds of conversations we had in class today.
HUMOR
Tomorrow, we’re going to work on an activity looking at how humor is used in texts. I explained to the students that I originally had a tough time with this, because I’d argue that the text didn’t include humor if it wasn’t funny and didn’t make me laugh. But, in fact, humor can take many forms. Today, we looked at what the kids found funny and then made this concept map about humor and its different forms. The kids are challenged, tonight, to find examples of different kinds of humor, particularly the “non-Haha LOL” kinds of humor that we would call “funny” examples.
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