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Academic Vocabulary: Add this definition to your academic vocabulary section in your reading/writing journal. Definition: Contrast between expectation and reality—between what’s said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what is really true. There are three common types: verbal, situational, and dramatic. Irony serves to expose truth, critique, bring out humor, mock, and/or force us to look more closely a character, situation, and/or event.
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No need to take notes on the following, but read through to help with understanding: Three common types : Verbal irony: saying something when one means something completely different. Character toasting the health of an unsuspecting victim. (Sarcasm can be ironic, but it’s all about understanding/intent—song “Ironic” is not ironic…)

Situational irony: contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens or when there is a contradiction between what we expect to happen and what really takes place. Harry Potter “dying” to defeat Voldemort is opposite of expectations set up throughout series.

Dramatic irony: When the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know. We know that Daisy and Gatsby are having an affair and Tom doesn’t.

Some more examples: Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father’s it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence. Irony is "a state of affairs that is the reverse of what was to be expected; a result opposite to and in mockery of the appropriate result." For instance: George Carlin George Carlin [] Some visual examples:
 * If a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runaway truck, he is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of an irony.
 * If a Kurd, after surviving bloody battle with Saddam Hussein’s army and a long, difficult escape through the mountains, is crushed and killed by a parachute drop of humanitarian aid, that, my friend, is irony writ large.

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Debrief reading HW: Buffalo Bill and Wild West Show

Read: "Evolution" by Sherman Alexie paying close attention to the Buffalo Bill allusion and irony that Alexie uses. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S4ppTXBqgIfce7HqFlvwCzwjM24u5GS5If9b9PlCJgg/edit?usp=sharing

Group annotation: "Evolution" annotation guide. We did this work in groups, but if you missed class, complete these annotations on your own. https://docs.google.com/a/apps4pps.net/document/d/1o2simzwKgm7xnzVYazytmIGNJ4MJZX1-D0xYj0AwhaU/edit?usp=sharing

HW: Complete a stanza poem for "Evolution" following the same guidelines as the ones for "Struggle" and "Museum Indians". Then, make sure you have all three either written up or typed up in the same location or document.