American Lit Q3 Week One Agenda

February 7-11, 2010

Honors American Literature (11th grade)

Week 1: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Literary Analysis Research Paper

Day 1 (90 mins) Day 2 (90 mins.) Day 3 (90 mins.)

Mon 2/7 &Tues 2/8 Wed 2/9 & Thurs 2/10 Fri 2/11

 The Literary Analysis Research  Meet in Lab 201  Meet in Lab 201
Paper schedule and points tally  Using Noodle Tools for  Finding Scholarly Sources
sheet notetaking, working
 How to summarize bibliographies, & Works Cited
 Research diagnostic Labs 121 pages
(M) & 123 (T/R)  Google Docs Share for Outlines
 Twain’s bio, pp.1185-1186 & rough drafts
 Role of The Notice in
introducing Huck Finn
 Structure and organization
 Assign groups for The River and
the Shore discussion
 Review ch.1-7 , pp.1196-1219
 Role of superstition/signs vs.
religion/biblical allusions
 Role of Pap and parenting
 Role of primitivism, frontier,
journey, and river vs.
civilization, law & order, and
land
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HW: HW: HW:
 Decide on an angle for SL  Read Huck Finn, pp. 1257-1295,  Begin creating note cards for
literary research paper ch.17-23 your SL research paper
 Read Huck Finn, pp.1219- 1256,  Read Huck Finn, pp.1295-1333
ch.8-16 ch.24-31