Standards and Sources
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.5.A
Interpret figures of speech (e.g., hyperbole, paradox) in context and analyze their role in the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6
Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.10
By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Sources Used:
http://www.corestandards.org/
http://www.athensacademy.net/teachers/mmandyck/SSR/huck.jpg
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-verbal-irony.html
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-high-school-students-using-instagram-to-cho,38373/
http://www.olny.nl/Research_Recherche/Memoires_Theses/Nyirubugara_Twain.html
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1erOEAzQZrVH7WC85kRiuCJqpO6z24YJH7Kh9POkR7gM/edit
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/
http://www.westmaneditorial.com/exaggeration-vs-hyperbole-vs-idiom-whats-the-difference/
http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/The-Lowest-Animal-By-Mark-Twain_2.htm
http://www.sarcasmsociety.com/irony/socratic.html
https://sites.google.com/site/eng3eye/home/unit-i/literature/the-lowest-animal
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