ELA-Author-Irony-F

= = **Author's Craft** **- Irony- Print - Fiction Resources**


 * 6-8**
 * //[|"The Zoo,"]// by Edward Hoch This short story presents a wonderful opportunity to teach irony at the conclusion of the story. Additional resources include a [|chart] and a [|worksheet.]
 * "//[|The Gift of the Magi]//," by O. Henry The following link has an activity to help teach students how to find the irony in the ending of a short story-[| http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=622]


 * E1-E4 //(need to add explanatory sentences, check for variety)//**
 * //Being There//**//,//** Jerzy Kosinski. Novel. Copyright 1999. ISBN-10: 0802136346, ISBN-13: 978-0802136343.
 * //Jake Reinvented,// Gordon Korman. YA novel. Copyright 2005. ISBN-10: 0802136346, ISBN-13: 978-0802136343.
 * //The Great Gatsby//**//,//** F. Scott Fitzgerald. Novel. Copyright 1999. ISBN-10: 0743273567, ISBN-13: 978-0743273565.
 * //Uglies//**,** Scott Westerfeld. YA novel. Copyright 2005. ISBN-10: 0689865384, ISBN-13: 978-0689865381. This novel relates easily to the "Twilight Zone" episode [|"Number Twelve Looks Just Like You"] (season 5 episode 17). View [|Part 1 here] (8:35), [|Part 2 here] (8:17), and [|Part 3 here] (8:24).
 * //"//[|//The Tell Tale Heart,//]**[|"]** Edgar Allen Poe. Short story.
 * //"Julius Caesar,"// William Shakespeare. Play.
 * //[|"Dulce et Decorum est,"]// Wilfred Owen. Poem.
 * //[|"Limited,"]// Carl Sandburg. Poem.
 * [|"Richard Cory,"] Edwin Arlington Robinson. Poem.
 * //[|"The Man He Killed,"]// Thomas Hardy. Poem.
 * //[|"To an Athlete Dying Young,"]// A.E. Houseman. Poem.
 * //[|"What I Expected,"]// Stephen Spender, poem.