Agenda: Monday, April 7

1) Collect Rhetorical Entries on Obama's speech on race
2) Return and Discuss Argument Timed Essays: Tacit Codes
- see examples of effective excerpts -
3) Multiple Choice Practice: Take the Neil Postman m.c. practice tonight (time yourself for 11 minutes)

Homework: M. C. practice; review vocab (quiz Wednesday)

Agenda: Monday, April 1

1) Vocabulary Warm-up: Quiz next Wednesday
2) Discuss Obama speech - rhetoric and argument: rhetorical terms entry due Monday

Homework: Huck Finn seminar prep (due Thursday) - see board in class; study vocab; begin rhetorical terms entry

Agenda: Monday, March 31

Welcome Back!

1) Collect spring break homework: 3 rhetorical terms entries on Huck Finn
2) Quickwrite
- How much progress has America made in terms of racial relations since Twain wrote Huck Finn?
- Describe a personal experience in which you were identified with a particular race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. How did you know you "belonged" or "didn't belong"?
3) Handout Obama's speech on race (click on link for text AND video)

Homework: Read Obama's speech and the NYTimes analysis (both are in the packet)
- identify and discuss 3 rhetorical devices
- highlight/annotate 3 points that Obama makes that are worth discussing tomorrow

Agenda: Friday, March 14

1) Be sure to sign the Thank You cards for Council Member McKeown and Ms. Julie Rusk.
2) Turn in slavery letters (be sure to label how you've met the style requirements) and address envelopes for mailing
3) Discuss Huck Finn to chapter 22

Homework: Finish Huck Finn and complete three rhetorical terms entries (see sidebar on webpage for requirements)

Agenda: Thursday, March 13

Spring Break Homework:
Finish Huck Finn
Complete 3 rhetorical terms entry for Huck Finn:
1) Free Choice Device: Colloquialism, Colloquial Diction, Dialect, etc.
2) Two entries on a humor device: pun, dramatic/situational/verbal irony, personification, euphemism, hyperbole, understatement/litote
Larger Meaning:
1) What is Twain using this device to satirize? What folly/flaw in human behavior is Twain critiquing? Why does he include this scene? What larger point does it allow him to make?

Chapter 22 Multiple Choice Practice
Discuss Sherburn/Boggs and Sheperdsons/Grangerfords

Homework: Revise slavery letter: add stylistic devices if you haven't already (see "10 Steps to Sexier, Sassier Sentences" handout) BRING TWO COPIES of your letter and an envelope and stamp

Agenda: Tuesday March 11

Santa Monica Local Issues Guest Speakers!
Report to B200 at 8:45

Homework: Read chapters 19, 20, 21 in Huck Finn
Complete assembly reflection

Agenda: Thursday, March 6

AP Multiple Choice Practice: Chapter 15
Continue Raft vs. Steamboat Discussion

Homework: Evidence Log Due Monday; chapters 17 and 18 due Monday