Lesson overview
Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
drill and practice
comedy
puns
wordplay
- Quick and fun. One picture, five exercises in different writing styles: puns and wordplay, 'set up and flip' jokes, power plays ('set up and flip' and 'escalating mischief'), and nonsense limericks. Students are give a snippet and a worked example, and they write their own version. Who can do the best impression? Each exercise stands alone. Do one each day, or do them all in one go.