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Explore Mark Twain's use of satire and examine themes of hate in his works. Analyze Twain's humor and rhetorical strategies while delving into societal issues like racism, slavery, and Reconstruction.

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  1. Congratulations!

  2. AP Language and CompositionTuesday, 24 November 2015 • Time will pass; will you? 15 school days remain in the fall semester. • Today’s Class: • SSR: ancillary essays to Huck Finn

  3. Housekeeping • Collect research paper introductions • Writing contests are now posted on the class website; optional credit is available for submissions—see me for details. • Please keep your grades monitored in IC, and alert me immediately to any discrepancies. • The Daily Course Calendar was last updated November 13 • Making up work? Need to see me? Please make an appointment.

  4. Coming Due—do not squander time—that’s the stuff life’s made of! • Monday: • Vocab Log #7 • Thursday/Friday: • Part II: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 19-30: Ancillary Reading: Lionel Trilling’s “The Greatness of Huckleberry Finn” —tii upload required for questions

  5. Today’s Class: “Recovering from Hate” • Guiding Questions: • Why do we hate? • What is the origin of hate? • List some things you hate • Pick one, and write about that thing/person and why you hate that thing/person.

  6. Today’s Class: “Recovering from Hate” • SSR: • “Recovering from Hate” Read as much as possible (skip Part ii: The Life of a White Supremacist”) and resume with “The Ingredients of White Hate” on pg. 15. • As you read, take notes… • Ideas you’d like to discuss, or hear other’s opinions about them: page # and approximate paragraph! • Quotes : page # and approximate paragraph! • Vocabulary

  7. Focus your questions around the big issues: • What is Twain satirizing in these chapters? Think also about how and why he’s satirizing these issues. • Romanticism and Romantic literature • Ignorance and Stupidity • Slavery • Religion • Politics • Reconstruction • Manners and “Southern Tradition” • The “Wild West” • Twain was known as a humorist. How does Twain use humor in these chapters?

  8. “Only a Nigger” by Mark Twain • Discuss in your groups: • Why does Twain use the words “negroes” and “negro” and consistently put the word “nigger” in quotation marks? One or two sentences. • In this essay, written seven years before he began work on Huckleberry Finn, Twain clearly uses the word “nigger” to signify the racist dehumanization of African Americans by Southern whites. In “Only a Nigger,” he uses the words negroes and negro, and consistently puts “nigger” in quotes to indicate that it is the dehumanizing word used by the Southerners whose mob law he is criticizing in the essay.

  9. Close Reading • Defining an author’s purpose, and identifying and analyzing the techniques and strategies employed to achieve that purpose. • Vocab and term logs out?

  10. What is rhetoric? The traditional definition of rhetoric, first proposed by Aristotle, and embellished over the centuries by scholars and teachers, is that rhetoric is the art of observing in any given case the “available means of persuasion.”

  11. Rhetoric—Whose idea was it? Socrates: 469-399 B.C.E. Father of Western philosophy and Mentor to Plato. Epistemology and logic. Plato: 424-348 B.C.E. Student of Socrates and founder of “The Academy” Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric and mathematics. Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.E. Student of Plato, and teacher to Alexander the Great.

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