We read and studied the short story, "Checkouts", and focused on the concept of irony. At the beginning of class, I placed on the board the definition of irony and drew three columns labeled: What happens/What we expect to happen/What actually happens. I then identified a few of the major plot developments under column"What happens" and Lena offered predictions on what the reader expects to happen which I placed under the column"What we expect". After we read the story, we then completed the chart by identifying "What actually happens" and discussed the story's irony I.e. how the story's outcome is the opposite of what we predicted.