Say What? Foreshadowing Humor

So we were covering foreshadowing this week and last week. 

This is probably one of my favorite things to teach for a few reasons. 

1. It is one of the first prezis that I made and I guess there is a little nostalgia.

2. I have a dark sense of humor and being so I get to pull out my favorite dark stories!

3. Every year the kids mock one of the songs I use to teach foreshadowing "Buenos Tardes Amigo" which is, granted, a really weird song. However, by the end of the song they GET IT and they end up quoting it for the rest of the year. 

4. I just feel like this is one of the literary elements that I really excel at teaching.

After the prezi and songs I always start by having the kids read "Death by Scrabble" the foreshadowing in that story really just smacks you in the face.

A husband and a wife are playing a Scrabble game. The husband really, really hates his wife. He notices that the words that are being played are coming true in real life (example: When he plays ZAP his wife gets a shock from the AC unit). He decides that he wants to be able to spell out a word that will kill his wife. In a fun little twist he ends up choking on a Scrabble tile and dying at the end of the story because his wife was plotting the same thing!

I get to throw a little bit of irony into the lesson as well because at one point the husband recounts how his cousin died when they were younger because he swallowed a bee. He wishes that his wife would swallow a bee and die, but he himself ends up choking on a letter "B" Scrabble tile. 

It is quite the demented little story, but I like it because it is highly exaggerated, and the kids really love it too. 

Sometimes I like to show an adaptation of the story after we read it: