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NEW! Review activity from class.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Due Tuesday, January 20th
Satire Paper due today
Also, if you'd like to get a start on the reading assignment for Wednesday, we are reading Jack London's "To Build a Fire" in your text book.
Also, if you'd like to get a start on the reading assignment for Wednesday, we are reading Jack London's "To Build a Fire" in your text book.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Due Monday, January 13th
Huck Finn Reading through Chapter 38.
Assigned today but due January 20th:
Huck Finn Inspired Satire Paper
Some Possible Targets of Satire
Politics
Human characteristics (foibles, personality traits)
Human behaviors (social attitudes, habits)
Institutions/Organizations
Individuals
Some Approaches:
The proposal
The narrative story or personal account
The dialogue
The ‘factual’ (more expository) report
Some Tools:
EXAGGERATION (taken to the extreme)
Humor
Irony
VOICE (Diction, syntax, allusions, etc.)
Point of view (outside observer or target of satire?)
Your paper must:
Select a target of satire (NO personal satire allowed for this exercise.)
Select an approach
Incorporate several tools of satire and develop an appropriate voice.
Be between 2-3 typed pages (double-spaced)
Starting Point: Remember satire is essentially criticism, so think of something you’d like to criticize (or find irritating) and develop it as satire.
Assigned today but due January 20th:
Huck Finn Inspired Satire Paper
Some Possible Targets of Satire
Politics
Human characteristics (foibles, personality traits)
Human behaviors (social attitudes, habits)
Institutions/Organizations
Individuals
Some Approaches:
The proposal
The narrative story or personal account
The dialogue
The ‘factual’ (more expository) report
Some Tools:
EXAGGERATION (taken to the extreme)
Humor
Irony
VOICE (Diction, syntax, allusions, etc.)
Point of view (outside observer or target of satire?)
Your paper must:
Select a target of satire (NO personal satire allowed for this exercise.)
Select an approach
Incorporate several tools of satire and develop an appropriate voice.
Be between 2-3 typed pages (double-spaced)
Starting Point: Remember satire is essentially criticism, so think of something you’d like to criticize (or find irritating) and develop it as satire.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
Welcome back assignments...
I vaguely have this recollection of a thing called school...
Here's what I'd like you to have done when we return:
Due Monday: Huck Finn Vocabulary Assignment. I'm assuming that Mr. Nickel is still planning on you taking your history test on Monday, so I don't know how much time we'll have for English.
Huck Finn Reading: I would like you to try to be through Chapter 33, however, I realize that since we haven't discussed much of the book, it will probably be a while before we discuss that far into the text. I'll ask around in class and see how far people have read and how well we are understanding the text, and then set up a more specific discussion calendar after we return. So, to answer what you probably really want to know, there won't be a reading quiz on Monday asking you questions that come from Chapter 33 only...or any other English reading quiz on Monday.
Here's what I'd like you to have done when we return:
Due Monday: Huck Finn Vocabulary Assignment. I'm assuming that Mr. Nickel is still planning on you taking your history test on Monday, so I don't know how much time we'll have for English.
Huck Finn Reading: I would like you to try to be through Chapter 33, however, I realize that since we haven't discussed much of the book, it will probably be a while before we discuss that far into the text. I'll ask around in class and see how far people have read and how well we are understanding the text, and then set up a more specific discussion calendar after we return. So, to answer what you probably really want to know, there won't be a reading quiz on Monday asking you questions that come from Chapter 33 only...or any other English reading quiz on Monday.
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