This week, we'll move into February and wrap up Huckleberry Finn. We'll be reading a variety of passages and begin work on the "synthesis" style essay. The synthesis essay is what is used for the ACT (though with shorter passages), and in any paper involving research that you'll do in college. This semester we'll go over both aspects of the synthesis essay: how to organize ideas into paragraphs, how long quotes should be and how they should be cited, how to provide analysis for the quotes, and more. We'll also be starting our unit about gender, with shorter passages from many different viewpoints, as well as discussions and debates.
MONDAY: Journal warm-up. Review satire and where we are in Huckleberry Finn. Current event day: should the age that someone be tried as an adult be raised to 21, instead of 118? Read and annotate two articles, SOAPS, four corner debate by slips. Move to four corners of your choice. Whole class outline, examples from discussion.
Due: Huckleberry Finn reading through the end of Chapter 25.
Homework: Read chapter 26-28 in Huckleberry Finn.
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Read Chapters 29 and 30 from Huckleberry Finn and act them out. Summary of Chapters 31-"Chapter the Last". Read Chapter the Last out loud in class and discuss the novel.
Due: Read chapter 26-28 in Huckleberry Finn
FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Vocabulary/grammar/Huckleberry Finn quiz. Receive vocabulary for next week. Intro: brief, two-week unit about gender. Read "Being a Man" essay by Paul Theroux and discuss. (2nd period: In small groups, take a position about whether you agree or disagree with Theroux's viewpoint and brainstorm evidence and examples to support your case. Whole class discussion.)
Note: 1st period will attend the author visit talk by Natalie Baszile, PVHS alumna from 9:00-9:45.
Due: Huckleberry Finn book to turn in to the classroom or the library.
Homework: Read the following articles in the "man packet": "Why Johnny Won't Read," and "Putting Down the Gun." Finish the questions with your original answers after each article and be ready to discuss on Tuesday.
Read at least 25 pages of your independent reading book.
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