AP English Language and Composition—Lawrynovicz
Organizing Question #2— How does man’s capacity for humor, sarcasm, and satire affect
his society? His environment?
Note: This is a tentative schedule. It is subject to change as needed.
Tutorials and make ups are Tuesday before and after school. You MUST schedule these with me to make sure that there
is time/space available. Any quiz not made up within one week after the absence will turn into a zero. You have 2 weeks
to make up a test.
**Unannounced reading check quizzes may be given over assigned material.**
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Humor Stickman: How
evolved is your sense of
humor?
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“Girl Moved to Tears by
‘Of Mice and Men’
Cliffs Notes”
Annotating Huck Finn: Just
because it’s fiction doesn’t
mean you should regress to
only looking for fuzzy
wuzzy stuff like plot and
character development!
HW: Read and Annotate
Chapt. 1-2 of Huck Finn
HW: Keep reading &
annotating Huck Finn
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5/6
Process Paper Assignment
Timed Writing Strategies and
Evaluating AP Analysis Essays
HW: Keep reading Huck Finn & start
working on process paper NOW!
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HW: Review tips from timed
writing s
12/13
PSAT Testing
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NO CLASS!
TIMED WRITING:
ANALYSIS ESSAY
Political Cartoons and Image Analysis (Please
store your political beliefs in the overhead
bins or under your seat. We’re analyzing
cartoons, not having a political debate!)
PROCESS PAPER DUE!
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“Meditation upon a
Broomstick”— Jonathan
Swift (because you can
never have enough
Swift!)
Stephen Colbert’s White House Dinner
Speech
Satire and Dialect: So, was
Huck black?
(Or the real world perils and power of satire!
I told you language can be dangerous in the
hands of someone who knows how to use it!)
HW: Print & annotate
Was Huck Black? excerpt
HW: Print Colbert’s speech
(we’ll read it in class)
HW: Study for Humor Terms Quiz
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So, is Smiley right? Or is
she an ignorant woman
with no appreciation for
literature?
HW: Print & annotate
“Say it Ain’t So, Huck”
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Sedaris’s “Me Talk
Pretty One Day” &
Lederer’s “English is a
Crazy Language”
HW: Prepare for End of
Unit Discussion!
HW: Print & annotate the
articles from Kennedy and
Nelson
Think there’s some problem
with the school? Write your
own “Modest Proposal”!
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Huck Finn Discussion up
through the end of Chapter
XXXI
End of Novel
Discussion (and a little
celebrity death match
action)
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“A Modest Proposal”
(Wait, we’re going to eat
WHAT?!!!)
HW: Process Paper! Print
Swift’s “Meditation upon a
Broomstick” (to read in class)
HW: Print & annotate Jonathan Swift’s “A
Modest Proposal”
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“Letter to the Honorable Ed
Foreman”—J.B. Lee, Jr. (or
how many hogs do you NOT
have?) & the infamous Dam
Letters
Analyzing Humor: It’s funny,
but WHY is it funny?
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Humor Terms Quiz
More Political Cartoons:
Oooh, pictures!
HW: Print and annotate
“‘Sivilizing’ Huck Finn” &
“Huck at 100”
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Vocab Quiz Unit 1
Kennedy’s “How Are We Doing with
Nigger?” vs. Nelson’s “The Word ‘Nigga’ Is
Only for Slaves and Sambos”
HW: Read & annotate “Why Women Aren’t
Funny”—just don’t read it aloud to your
parents!
November 1
“Why Women Aren’t
Funny”—Christopher Hitchens
(We can’t say these words in
class, can we?)
HW: Print & annotate the
Sedaris & Lederer pieces
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Vocab Quiz Unit 2
End of Unit Graded
Discussion! (Quiz Grade)
HW: Study for test!
UNIT TEST
OVER ALL READINGS AND TERMS
HW: Read & annotate Brent Staples’ “Just
Walk on By: Black Men and Public Spaces”
“Just Walk on By: Black Men
and Public Spaces”
(Or how to write like a stalker)
HW: Read & annotate The
Devil in the White City to p. 34