Huck Finn

Homework Assignments: Week 4
AP English Language

Monday
9/14 Finish your visual representation and finalize your wilderness perspective essay. Final version of each are due on Wednesday. There is no school tomorrow.

Tuesday
9/15 Read at least 30 pages in your IR book. If you have not read much yet, read even more tonight. We will start reading The Scarlet Letter on Thursday and this will make it a little harder to get your IR done.

Wednesday
9/16 Complete the timed writing on the passage from Frederick Douglass. Take what you learned from class discussion of the passage and from your Magna Soles rhetorical analysis to help you do an even better job on this timed writing. Spend at least 40 minutes writing this essay, but you may spend an extra 10 minutes. Do not spend any longer than 50 minutes. 40 minutes should be enough time to write a good essay.

Thursday
9/17 Read to the end of page 43 in The Scarlet Letter. Read and annotate, paying careful attention so that you are prepared for a reading quiz and/or class discussion on Friday.

Friday
9/18 Read in your IR book. Read about 70 pages this weekend. Read to page 53 in The Scarlet Letter. Read and annotate, paying careful attention so that you are prepared for a reading quiz and/or class discussion on Monday.

Old Assignments: Weeks 1 - 3

Week 3

Homework this week is to finish your visual representation on a theme from Huckleberry Finn and to read in your IR book. Take advantage of a light homework week and get some reading done. Visual Reps are due by Wednesday 9/16, at the latest.

Week 2

Monday
8/31 Begin working on your rhetorical analysis of Huck’s transformation passage. See the link for details and models. First draft due Wednesday.

Tuesday
9/1 Finish writing the first draft of your rhetorical analysis of Huck’s transformation. Print out your first draft so that you are prepared for peer editing at the beginning of the period on Wednesday.

Wednesday
9/2 Based on the peer editing comments and your own ideas, write a final draft of your rhetorical analysis of Huck’s transformation. Remember that you’re responsible for making significant improvements in your writing. Be sure to analyze both content and rhetoric, to build a clear argument, to reflect in depth, to use precise verbs, to vary your sentence structure, and to fix all grammar and spelling errors. Due tomorrow, Thursday.

Thursday
9/3 Read about 20 pages in your IR book.

Friday
9/4 Work on your Visual Representation for Huckleberry Finn. Read in your IR book. Read about 70 pages this weekend.

Week 1

Monday
8/24 Based on our discussion of Royko’s “A Faceless Man’s Plea,” write an informal analysis of Royko’s rhetoric. Use direct quotations from the article and explain the why and how as well as the what. Analyze content (what Royko argues for, what the point of his article is) in tandem with how he makes his argument so persuasive.

Tuesday
8/25 Go through Frederick Douglass and find 3 significant quotations and reflect on one of them in detail. As you go through the narrative looking for quotations, review the plot, characters, significant scenes, etc. so that you are prepared for the test next week. Write about one page on the quotation. Focus on analyzing the specific lines rather than summarizing the plot surrounding the quotations. Look at the model quotation reflection if you’re not sure what to do. The key to this assignment is choosing meaty quotations. Don’t start writing about a quotation unless you have a lot to say about it—choose carefully.

Wednesday
8/26 Work on your position paper on Huck Finn. See the link and your class notes for more detailed instructions. Due Friday. Juniors: Revise your essay analyzing Royko's article on Leroy Bailey. Your position paper will be due on Monday.

Thursday
8/27 Finish writing your position paper on Huck Finn. Due tomorrow.

Friday
8/28 Read in your IR book. Aim to read about 70 pages per weekend, or 10 pages a night in order to reach the A level by the end of the quarter without a last minute crisis.

Friday
8/21 Go through Huck Finn and find 5 significant quotations and reflect on one of them in detail. As you go through the novel looking for quotations, review the plot, characters, significant scenes, etc. so that you are prepared for the test next week. Write about one page on the quotation. Focus on analyzing the specific lines rather than summarizing the plot surrounding the quotations. Look at the model quotation reflection if you’re not sure what to do. The key to this assignment is choosing meaty quotations. Don’t start writing about a quotation unless you have a lot to say about it—choose carefully. More reflections on the other quotations will be due next week, but have one ready for Monday.

Monday
9/17 Write an essay analyzing how the archetype of the Hero’s Journey applies to Huckleberry Finn. Be sure to discuss how the book ends with Huck in the same place as the beginning, but transformed. Be sure to discuss a few of episodes on “the road of trials” that educate Huck. Use specific quotations from the novel and refer to your class notes on the definition of the archetype.

Thursday
9/20 Complete the imagery homework assignment. Write an imagery paragraph on the Deerslayer passage and complete the tone and imagery identification on #3 - 10.

Monday
9/10 Work on your style analysis essay tonight and tomorrow night, but due Thursday. See the link for details.

Wednesday
9/12 Work on your persuasive essay: is Huck Finn immoral or racist? Make sure your style analysis is finished, due tomorrow.

Thursday
9/13 Finish your persuasive essay, due tomorrow. Extension to Monday due to kidnapping sleepover.

Tuesday
9/4 Begin writing your position paper on Huck Finn. See the link for details. Due Thursday.

Thursday
9/6 Passage Analysis on Huck Finn. See the link for details. Due tomorrow.

Friday
9/7 Read in your IR book – start now and prevent an end of the quarter crisis.

Tuesday
8/28 Choose three quotations from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and reflect on two of them in detail. As you go through the narrative looking for quotations, review the plot, characters, significant scenes, etc. so that you are prepared for the test tomorrow. Write about one page on each quotation. Focus on analyzing the specific lines rather than summarizing the plot surrounding the quotations. Look at the model quotation reflection if you’re not sure what to do. The key to this assignment is choosing meaty quotations. Don’t start writing about a quotation unless you have a lot to say about it—choose carefully.

Friday
8/31 Choose a new IR book and bring it to school on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Monday
8/29 Read Mark Twain’s “Notice” at the beginning of the novel and write a short essay/detail response (about 1 page) arguing whether you believe that the notice should be read literally or not. Do you think Twain literally does not want his readers to think about his novel and just read it for fun, or do you think he intends his readers to do the opposite. Explain your viewpoint and use specific examples and quotations to support your view.

Tuesday
8/31 Write a persuasive essay that counters the arguments of Twain’s contemporary critics. Do you think Huckleberry Finn is an immoral or racist book? Use the comments of the critiques and quotations from the novel to frame your argument that the critics misinterpreted the novel. The final essay is due Tuesday, 9/6 but please bring the first page of your essay to class on Thursday so I can check your progress.

Thursday
9/2 Finish your persuasive essay if you have not done so already. Finish your style analysis of the passage on pages 204 – 206 (364-368). Read in your Independent Reading book. Enjoy the holiday weekend.