There are two parts to this week's assignment:

Satire is “a way of making us realize how silly or bad things are - - often by making us laugh at them.” What are some examples from the stories that satirize the real problems documented in the articles that I assigned?

Answer one of the following critical thinking questions about satire:
This video defines several techniques used in satire such as exaggeration, caricature, parody, hyperbole, and verbal irony. What are some examples of these techniques in the stories from Pastoralia?

Watch this video, which gives a brief history of satire and explains different types of satire. Which type of satire do you see in the stories from Pastoralia?

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