Detecting Sarcasm in texts, emails and on social media

by Badger State Speechy

Price: 650 points or $6.5 USD

Subjects: speech,socialAspectsOfCommunication,pragmatics

Grades: 6,7,8,9,10

Description: Thorough, engaging and relevant materials for teaching students how to identify sarcasm in written forms of communication: texts, emails and social media. This is an entire lesson from start to finish, not just a deck of practice cards. Included: Home page and arrows, Definition of sarcasm, Student Self-rating, Pre-test to assess student knowledge, Signs of sarcasm in written communication (texts, emails, social media) and multiple choice and type in the box responses to questions to check student understanding of material. 14 slides where student identifies the sarcasm given four texts/emails/social media posts or comments. 10 slides on how to interpret sarcastic messages with type in the box responses, 1 slide-student types in situations where sarcasm shouldn't be used, Final slide-student rates their sarcasm detector using emoji gifs. Real photographs of middle school, high school and young adults are used and mutiple skin tones are represented. Students have the option to hear audio directions. Please note: this is a text-heavy lesson.