Agenda, September 12

Due Monday: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 1-42+
Due Monday: "How to Read an Essay You Must Analyze." Practice the steps described on this essay.
Due Tuesday: "How it Feels to be Colored Me," by Zora Neale Hurston. Apply your learning from "How to Read ..." to "How it Feels."

1. How to prep for a timed write
2. This is a book about ...
3. The Phelps Family
4. Open Disco
5. Review the Norms

Agenda, September 11

Due Tomorrow: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 1-42

1. What is rhetoric?
2. What is rhetorical analysis
3. TED Argues
4. Whole class disco norms (if time allows)
5. Tell me each other more about the book

Agenda, September 10

Due Tomorrow: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36-38

1. Is anybody good at graphic design?
2. What are the important elements in a successful whole class conversation?
3. TED Listens
4. Three things I need to say ...
5. Whole Class Disco

Agenda, September 9

Due Tomorrow: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 33-35

1. Five-minute Reflection (which will probably take 10 minutes)
2. Category Two Questions about 30-32
3. Recurring Themes
4. The Return of the Rhetorical Devices Quiz

Agenda, September 8

Due Tomorrow: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 30-32

1. Return of the Justice Essays
2. Notes
3. Category Two Questions
4. Recurring Themes

 

Agenda, September 5

Due Monday: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 24-29
Due before SUNDAY@ 8 pm (or Monday by 7:30 am): E-mail me three questions AND three observations about Huck Finn. Do the reading first. Include your period number in the e-mail subject.  

Do Now: Rhetorical Devices Quiz 

1. Let's get quizzical!
2. Tone: The Pap Example (Per 5 Only)
3. Hot Topics
4. Justice in Huck Finn

Agenda, September 4

Due Tomorrow: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21-23  Coming Friday: Rhetorical Devices Quiz  
Do at the end of class: Period 5, please put two chairs up

1. Analogy / Metaphor / Simile
2. Hyperbole / Understatement / Litotes
3. Anaphora / Parallelism / Zeugma
4. Tone: The Pap Example
5. Hot Topics
6. Justice in Huck Finn

Agenda, September 3

Due Tomorrow: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 18-20  
Coming Friday: Rhetorical Devices Quiz
Do at the end of class: Period 5, please put two chairs up

1. Um, what is satire?
2. How does satire work?
3. Justice in Huck Finn
4. Analogy / Metaphor / Simile
5. Hyperbole / Understatement / Litotes
6. Hot Topics

Agenda, September 2

Due Tomorrow: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 15-17
Coming Friday: Rhetorical Devices Quiz
Do at the end of class: Period 5, please put two chairs up

1. What is Justice?
2. Name Tags
3. Class Expectations
4. Antithesis, Asyndeton, Polysyndeton
5. Hot Topics / A-ha!
6. How does satire work?
7. Justice in Huck Finn

When you pack your bags tonight ...

... make sure you have the following:

• Your copy of Huck Finn
• Matching control of your rhetorical devices (you can bring flash cards or a vocab list, if you made 'em)
• Your Justice Essay (print it at home! The library is closed and printers are scarce. Last time I was in the building I couldn't print; your favorite, forgiving teacher from last year might be in the same boat)
• A positive 'tude. Lang is hard, but you can do it!