Spring 2020! Unit 5 - Huck Finn's and America's Coming of Age; Unit 6 - American Voices Research Project

HUCKLEBERRY FINN 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
• Faces of Pap Analysis of Twain's Satirical Arc
• Realism and Regionalism
• Naturalism in Huck Finn
• Chimamanda Adichie's "Dangers of a Single Story"
• Replacing the "n-word" with "robot" in Huck Finn

AMERICAN VOICES RESEARCH RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)

• 1 - Project Overview
• Calendar
• Malcolm Gladwell's article "Slackers" as model
• StoryCorps channel for fun
• Model essay based on Rocco's story
• Cover stories in American media to generate topic ideas
• The New Yorker
• The Economist
• National Review
• Scientific American
• The New Republic
• The Atlantic
• Wired (2017 is most current)
• Rolling Stone
• Esquire
• Psychology Today
• 2 - Project Proposal
• 3 - Interview Plan and Questions (a resource not an assignment)
• 4 - Interview Recording and Transcript
• 5 - Secondary Research Plan 
• 6 - Annotated Bib Assignment
• Model Annotated Bib
• Annotated Bib Graphic Organizer
• Working Outline
• Synthesizing Research
• Model Outline 1
• Model Outline 2
• Rough Draft
• Narrative
• Expository
• Revision
• Revision PowerPoint
• Requirements and Revision Checklist
• Peer Revision
• Paragraphing Logic from Purdue Owl
• Lead-Ins and Citations
• Conciseness
• To Be Verbs
• Works Cited formatting
• MLA formatting
• Crash Course series on Navigating Digital Information - This series is so good and necessary - not just for school but for life in our echo chamber of online lives!
• Episode 1 - Navigating Digital Information #1
• Episode 2 - The Facts about Fact Checking
• Episode 3 - Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
• Episode 4 - Who Can You Trust? 

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