America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
Arts & Humanities

[Detail] Migrant agricultural worker

Irony

Sign on drug store window, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois.

Toward Los Angeles, California.

These two photographs provide the material for a lesson on irony. Have students examine them and explain, or discuss together, how these images express irony. Students can then make a photograph or drawing of their own that expresses irony.

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