Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
AP English Language and Composition
Mastery Objectives:
SWBAT reflect upon creative elements and respond in a critical
manner.
AGENDA:
1. In groups, finish and discuss rhetorical strategies
used by Swift to create satire in his modest
proposal (e.g., irony, understatement, diction, etc.)
and provide examples. Present results to class.
2. Discuss dialect from opening chapters of The
Adventures of Huck Finn. In groups, you will 1) be
assigned a character (i.e., Huck, Pap, Jim, Tom, Buck
Grangerford, Mary Jane or Duke and Dauphin), 2)
determine two or three representative quotes from your
character and then 3) determine what type of people
they were from the language they used.
3. With clock buddy, read “Goodbye, Cruel Words” (see
webpage) to determine what is being satirized. Also,
find all grammatical errors in article.
4. Watch 60 Minutes special on Huckleberry Finn and
the “N-Word;” make connections and analyze….
5. Prepare for synthesis essay on the impact of
television on presidential elections; then in groups,
review and score exemplar synthesis essays.
HOMEWORK/UPCOMING DUE DATES:
Next vocabulary list will be due this Friday.
Satire assignment is due on Tuesday, 3/1 (see webpage).
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is due to be
completed by Thursday, 3 March. First dialectical
journal is due this Thursday, 18 February, by the
beginning of class (see webpage).
Optional enrichment project is due NLT Tuesday, 3/8.
Requirement: 2-4 minutes long, 5-10 slides….