After learning about satires and analyzing different satires, we got to make our own. A satire is displaying and exposing the cracks in society in a humorous, comedic, and exaggerated manner, for people to reflect and question the world’s pressing issues and matters at hand. There were a couple of requirements for this project, but we were allowed to go beyond and add our own personal touches to our piece, which kept the activity educative, but also fun and enjoyable.

For this activity, we were able to choose our partners and the subject we wanted to satirize. My partner and I chose to satirize egocentric people (people who think they are at the center of the world) through the writing of a letter from the point of view of an egocentric person, to their classmates about how egocentric they are. We thought this was a fun way to portray the thought and ahd a lot of fun writiting it.

After reading Walden over the summer and analyzing different chapters, we were assigned groups to work on a skit or short play that we would perform on our field trip to Bournedale. This was a fun assignment and we got to dig further into the story. My group decided to kind of bash Henry David Thoreau (the author and person living the story in the book) by putting him on the Dr. Phil show. Several witnesses to his “bad” actions came forth and admonished him further. We got to perform during our last night at Bournedale and I played the lumberjack (one of the witnesses), as well as a guy on the advertisements during commercial breaks.

This assignment was really fun. It was a pleasure to work on it at the beginning of the year. It was a great introduction to Mass Academy and an amazing way to start the year. The other skits we all got to watch during Bournedale were full of joy and the stories, of course, all revolving around Henry David Thoreau.