Satire and Mark Twain

UPCOMING DATES TO NOTE (major assignments, see calendar for daily work/homework)

• Monday 12/3 - Polished Journal Due with 5 original journals
• Monday 12/10 and Tuesday 12/11 - Huckleberry Finn Socratic Seminars
• Thursday 12/13 - Huckleberry Finn Unit Test
• Monday 12/17 - Huckleberry Finn Map Project Due

CLASS RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Reading Schedule
• River Map
• "A True Story Repeated Word for Word, As I Heard It"
• Malcolm Gladwell's "The Paradox of Satire"
• Transcript
• Audio
• Images
• Satire Definitions and Quotes
• Naturalism in Huck Finn
• Chimamanda Adichie's "Dangers of a Single Story"
• Replacing the "n-word" with "robot" in Huck Finn
• JOURNALS (I will collect after five for completion; you will choose one to polish)
• Journal 1 - the American Dream (prompt on slide 4)
• Journal 2 - you become the Ethicist (speeding and friendship prompt on slide 9)
• Journal 3 - Hawthorne's argument in the "Market-Place" (prompt on slide 8)
• Journal 4 - Are Americans Still Puritan
• Journal 5 - Is American Satire "Toothless"?

CALENDAR (click here for larger view):