Irony in The Crucible and Modern Memes
The Crucible Meme Project
Goal: Increase student understanding of verbal and situational irony in a play as well as have students demonstrate their own understanding of irony through creating a meme of their own.
The Plan:
- Students begin reading The Crucible looking for elements of literature including, but limited to, plot structure, diction, tone, and irony.
- Teacher reviews the literary element of irony, including the three types- verbal, situational, and dramatic.
- As students read The Crucible, they look for and identify examples of irony in the text. They will record their answers in the Examples of Irony in The Crucible chart.
- Teacher and students will review examples of irony found in the text.
- Teacher will explain Meme Project and requirements, focusing on the difference between text dependent and non-text dependent memes.
- Teacher will demonstrate how to use www.memegenerator.com as well as show students an appropriate text dependent meme. (See example)
The Assessment:
- Using www.memegenerator.net, students will create their own Crucible meme.
- After using the website to create their own meme, students will use Google Docs to share meme with teacher.
- Teacher will share memes with class.