Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
AP English Language and Composition
Mastery Objectives:
SWBAT reflect upon creative elements and respond in a critical
manner.
AGENDA:
1. Turn in research paper electronically.
2. In groups, finish SOAPSTone analysis 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.
3. 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.
HOMEWORK/UPCOMING DUE DATES:
 Next vocabulary list will be due this Friday.
 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….