What does this have to do with today’s view on maintaining one’s health?

What comes to mind? Globally Where do people live the

longest? What are their secrets? What is the average life

expectancy in Canada?

Personally What makes people take

their health seriously? What aspects of health

can be taken lightly?

Okinawa has a population of one million and of those 900 are centenarians, four times higher than the average in Britain or America.

Today’s goal

To be able to identify an essay’s genre

Identify the key elements that contribute to this classification

To do Literary devices in The

bully & The revenge Reading How to live to

be 200 Group exercise Literary devices review

How to live to be 200

Pre-reading What does the title suggest about the

content of the essay? How do we immediately determine that this

is misleading?

While reading Note literary devices used

Notes Satirical & Process Essay Humorous, light-hearted, witty Leacock offers absurd tips on how a person

might live to a “grand, green, exuberant, boastful” old age – without having to exercise or be healthy (thesis?)

Using humour, exaggeration and absurdity to mock health fanatics

Health fanatics: opposing/contrasting their fanaticisms (Because ironically everyone will eventually die and no one can live to be 200 years old so we might as well enjoy ourselves.)

He satirizes people (like Jiggins) who exercise excessively and die anyway

Group essay analysis

In a group of four, develop a schema to represent the essay and its contents

Example Break the essay into its structural parts Note the literary devices used in each part

Be prepared to make a comment about the essay’s takeaway thesis