Summer Reading:

Frederick Douglass & Huckleberry Finn

AP English Homework Assignments: Week 4 Monday 9/17 Write an essay analyzing how the archetype of the Hero’s Journey applies to Huckleberry Finn. Be sure to discuss how the book ends with Huck in the same place as the beginning, but transformed. Be sure to discuss a few of episodes on “the road of trials” that educate Huck. Use specific quotations from the novel and refer to your class notes on the definition of the archetype. Tuesday 9/18 Complete the diction and tone homework assignment. Wednesday 9/19 Write a diction/tone paragraph on the Walt Whitman poem. Thursday 9/20 Complete the imagery homework assignment. Write an imagery paragraph on the Deerslayer passage and complete the tone and imagery identification on #3 - 10. Friday 9/21 Read in your IR book. Homework Assignments: Week 3 Monday 9/10 Work on your style analysis essay tonight and tomorrow night, but due Thursday. See the link for details. Tuesday 9/11 Finish writing your style analysis. Wednesday 9/12 Work on your persuasive essay: is Huck Finn immoral or racist? Make sure your style analysis is finished, due tomorrow. Thursday 9/13 Finish your persuasive essay, due tomorrow. Extension to Monday due to kidnapping sleepover. Friday 9/14 Read in your IR book. Homework Assignments: Week 2 Tuesday 9/4 Begin writing your position paper on Huck Finn. See the link for details. Due Thursday. Wednesday 9/5 Finish your position paper. Due tomorrow. Thursday 9/6 Passage Analysis on Huck Finn. See the link for details. Due tomorrow. Friday 9/7 Read in your IR book – start now and prevent an end of the quarter crisis. Homework Assignments: Week 1 Tuesday 8/28 Choose three quotations from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and reflect on two of them in detail. As you go through the narrative looking for quotations, review the plot, characters, significant scenes, etc. so that you are prepared for the test tomorrow. Write about one page on each quotation. Focus on analyzing the specific lines rather than summarizing the plot surrounding the quotations. Look at the model quotation reflection if you’re not sure what to do. The key to this assignment is choosing meaty quotations. Don’t start writing about a quotation unless you have a lot to say about it—choose carefully. Wednesday 8/29 Choose five quotations from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and reflect on three of them in detail. As you go through the novel looking for quotations, review the plot, characters, significant scenes, etc. so that you are prepared for the test on Friday. Write about one page on each quotation. Focus on analyzing the specific lines rather than summarizing the plot surrounding the quotations. Look at the model quotation reflection if you’re not sure what to do. The key to this assignment is choosing meaty quotations. Don’t start writing about a quotation unless you have a lot to say about it—choose carefully. Due Friday. Thursday 8/30 Finish your quotation reflections from Huckleberry Finn. Friday 8/31 Choose a new IR book and bring it to school on Tuesday or Wednesday.               Old Assignments Monday 8/29 Read Mark Twain’s “Notice” at the beginning of the novel and write a short essay/detail response (about 1 page) arguing whether you believe that the notice should be read literally or not. Do you think Twain literally does not want his readers to think about his novel and just read it for fun, or do you think he intends his readers to do the opposite. Explain your viewpoint and use specific examples and quotations to support your view. Tuesday 8/31 Write a persuasive essay that counters the arguments of Twain’s contemporary critics. Do you think Huckleberry Finn is an immoral or racist book? Use the comments of the critiques and quotations from the novel to frame your argument that the critics misinterpreted the novel. The final essay is due Tuesday, 9/6 but please bring the first page of your essay to class on Thursday so I can check your progress. Thursday 9/2 Finish your persuasive essay if you have not done so already. Finish your style analysis of the passage on pages 204 – 206 (364-368). Read in your Independent Reading book. Enjoy the holiday weekend.

Assignment Details AP Quotation Reflection model Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Exam The Adventures of Huck Finn Exam Position Paper Passage Analysis Censorship Quotations Persuasive Essay Style Analysis Model Paragraph Due Dates Thurs. 9/6 Position Paper Friday 9/7 Passage Analysis Thursday 9/13 Style Analysis Monday 9/17 Persuasive essay