Using Sarcasm: A complete lesson

by Badger State Speechy

Price: 650 points or $6.5 USD

Subjects: speech,pragmatics,socialAspectsOfCommunication

Grades: 6,7,8,9,10

Description: A complete and thorough lesson on a difficult skills for many students: knowing when and where it's acceptable to use sarcasm, including: Home page and arrows to navigate. Self-rating, Using sarcasm pre-test T/F, drag and drop, Two types of sarcasm: friendly and aggressive and practice identifying each one. 10 slides where students identify social scenarios where sarcasm is used as "friendly" or "aggressive" and give support for their answer. A link to a "help" button is provided. One slide: consequences of aggressive sarcasm-how does it make people feel? Knowledge checks of the material and opportunities to review. Acceptable and Unacceptable situations for sarcasm and 10 slides where students read a social scenario and identify it as acceptable or unacceptable and give support for their response. Sarcasm-what do others think? How to be a careful communicator (tips on use and responses to sarcasm). 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. This lesson is on USING SARCASM (I have other decks related to sarcasm).