For a writer's notebook: watch the videos below, and answer the questions:
1. Characterize the difference between Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens(min 1-3min)
2. According to historian Harlin Hill, how did Twain "begin American literature?"(4:40)
3. According to Jocelyn Chadwick and Gregory Hill, how did Twain's Jim "demythologize" slavery?(6-8)
4. William Styron calls the book a "metaphor for the tragiccomedy of life." (9 min of pt I to part II). What did he mean?
5. According to the commentators, what climactic line of the novel signals Huck's transformation? (4-6)
Twain Reading Schedule
I. The objective is to create a test ourselves that will help us think critically about the book. On the following dates, we will have an open forum discussion which aims to collect 10 questions that pertain to plot, literary devices, and themes.
By Friday, January 28, be through chapter 7
By Friday, February 4, be through chapter 16
By Friday, February 11, be through chapter 28
by Friday, February 18, be through chapter 37
By Tuesday February 22, be finished!
II. Recommended title for Third Quarter: Cather in the Rye, The Odyssey, The Crying of Lot 49
By Friday, January 28, be through chapter 7
By Friday, February 4, be through chapter 16
By Friday, February 11, be through chapter 28
by Friday, February 18, be through chapter 37
By Tuesday February 22, be finished!
II. Recommended title for Third Quarter: Cather in the Rye, The Odyssey, The Crying of Lot 49
Third Quarter Run Down
Third Quarter Rundown
January-March
Unit 1: Review of AP test, cont: Multiple Choice Review
Question 2: rhetorical analysis
Unit 2: Mark Twain’s America
Unit Readings:
Twain: James Fennimore Coopers Literary Offenses,
The War Prayer, Message to Graduates
Complete Huckleberry Finn by February 22
Unit Writing:
The essential question essay
Unit 3: What Remains?
Unit Readings:
Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
The Novel as allegory
What is Englishness?
Barry Lewis: Remains of the Day
Unit Writing:
The essential question essay
Literature and Film: Remains of the Day(Ivory,1993)
Writers Notebooks:
**poetry can be wonderful, but not something to turn in for writer's notebooks**
1. Pick a Free Response Question
2. Pick a free Response Question
3. Pick a free Response Question
4. SOAPStone
5. TPCAST
6. The 12 sentence paragraph
7. Compare/Contrast
8. Question # 2 practice
9. First person, unreliable narrator
January-March
Unit 1: Review of AP test, cont: Multiple Choice Review
Question 2: rhetorical analysis
Unit 2: Mark Twain’s America
Unit Readings:
Twain: James Fennimore Coopers Literary Offenses,
The War Prayer, Message to Graduates
Complete Huckleberry Finn by February 22
Unit Writing:
The essential question essay
Unit 3: What Remains?
Unit Readings:
Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
The Novel as allegory
What is Englishness?
Barry Lewis: Remains of the Day
Unit Writing:
The essential question essay
Literature and Film: Remains of the Day(Ivory,1993)
Writers Notebooks:
**poetry can be wonderful, but not something to turn in for writer's notebooks**
1. Pick a Free Response Question
2. Pick a free Response Question
3. Pick a free Response Question
4. SOAPStone
5. TPCAST
6. The 12 sentence paragraph
7. Compare/Contrast
8. Question # 2 practice
9. First person, unreliable narrator
The Mid Term Exam
part I: 15 questions covering all literary terms.
part II: Hamlet. Answer 7 objective questions and one AP style question from the play. The prompt includes a passage from the play, and asks the WHAT--what the passage means within the context of the play--and the HOW--how literary devices, images, or allusions create meaning.
part III: I will select ONE of the essays from the 2009 Test.
part II: Hamlet. Answer 7 objective questions and one AP style question from the play. The prompt includes a passage from the play, and asks the WHAT--what the passage means within the context of the play--and the HOW--how literary devices, images, or allusions create meaning.
part III: I will select ONE of the essays from the 2009 Test.
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