Homework

November 23-25:  11/23 Essays due. Parody: Weird Al   11/24  Information and examples of the student parody.student_parody__assignment.pdf
   11/25  Parody: Steve Oedekerk: Thumb Wars Homework:  web parody evaluation due on Tuesday
How to write a one sentence summary and thinking about thinking: click here for handout
Week 11:  Monday: Asimov and Bradbury  Tuesday: Edith Wharton, begin essay   Wednesday: prewriting and drafting literary analysis essay  Thursday:Intro to parody.  Friday: rough draft due for peer editing (annotate in the margins: what is the pupose of each paragraph?), examples of parody. Final draft (and annotated rough draft) of essay due on Monday.
Week 10  Monday-Tuesday:Satirical film:  Harrison Bergeron   Wed: Veteran's Day  Thursday:  Discuss film, technology, and Isaac Asimov.  Friday: Ray Bradbury
Week 9 (Nov. 2-6)  Literary satire unit: as we read the essay, poems, and short stories in this unit, take notes. As a culmination you will be writing an essay that compares /discusses them.  Monday: Mark Twain's "The War Prayer"   Tuesday: Ambrose Bierce's "Killed at Resaca"   Wednesday: Langston Hughes   Thursday: Auden, misc. poetry
Friday: Kurt Vonnegut
 
Week 8 (Oct 26-30)  Monday: college essay information  Tuesday: Rough draft of your Swift essay is due!Annotate your rough draft:underline thesis, highlight concrete details, label main points in the margins, check conventions.   Peer editing.  Wednesay:  Swift essay is due. College essay information.  Thursday: satire related vocabulary  Friday: begin literary satire unit.
Week 7 (Oct 19-23) Monday:Read and discuss "A Modest Proposal."   Tuesday: Modest proposal parodies; groups come up with your own "proposals."  Wednesday: share proposals; prompts for Swift essay; prewriting. Thursday: Great Books video on Swift--gather ideas for your paper. Homework: rough draft of essay due Tuesday; bring college essay prompts on Monday 10/26  Friday: no school:teacher inservice.
Week 6:  (Oct 12-16) Swift's Gullivers Travels.  Monday: Watch journey 1 of Gulliver's Travels. OSS for journey 1 due at the end of the period. Tuesday: Journey 2; OSS due at the end of the period  Wednesday: Journey three; as you view write down 3-5 discussion questions for a student led discussion tomorrow.  Thursday: discussion . Friday: Journey 4; notes and OSS due at the end of the period.
Week 5   (Oct 5-9)  Monday and Tuesday: work on your political candidate  Wednesday: present candidates to class  Thursday: misc. political satire  Friday:  college essays and Swift presentation.
Week 4  (Sept.28-Oct 2)  Monday: Wrap up The Daily Show and transition to Colbert Report.  Tuesday-Wednesday: Colbert. Thurs: Political reaction assigned, misc. political satire: SNL, Al Franken, Tina Fey. Friday: Political candidate project.  Homework:  Political reaction due on Monday Oct. 5.
 
Week 3:  Monday: how to write top ten list,  parenthetical citations, works consulted page drafts, misc. political satire.  Tuesday: lab: show me your 25 notecards, sort your cards into top ten list, look for a visual/ media to enhance your presentation.  Final draft of Top Ten list and Works Cited page due on Thursday.  Wednesday- Friday:  Jon Stewart and The Daily Show as political satire.

 

Week 2:  We will be examining the differences between pure satire and pure comedy.  You have a one-page typed humor reaction due on Wednesday. humor_reaction.pdf (29.6 k)
We will begin a research project this week.  We will be in the lab on Thursday and Friday. You will need 25 notecards by next Tuesday.

Week 1:  Introduction to satire, political cartoons. Homework:  find a political cartoon you understand and bring it to class on Monday.