Jr.+Comp.+&+Lit.+-+Satire+Unit+4

= Unit 4: Comedy or Controversy? = In this unit you will read //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// by Mark Twain as the primary text for studying the types and impact of Satire on the reader.

You will learn that Satire is ... often a careful blend of humor, irony, sarcasm and various rhetorical devices. that the purpose of Satire is to expose the folly of some aspect of human life, perhaps with the aim of bringing about some reform or improvement.

You will learn to ... recognize the range of Satire and be able to explain in an essay where a satirical piece falls in this range and what rhetorical devices the author uses to achieve this particular level of Satire.

Students will be able to.... trace examples of Satire. write a mimic paper using Satire in which they will choose some aspect of life they believe is foolish and in the need of reform and then write about the subject to expose its folly.

Essential Questions

 * In what ways is satire an effective agent of change?
 * Has American culture been motivated to change by literature that pointed out some of its problems in the past?
 * Can one writer's style develop by imitating another writer's style?
 * What does //Huckleberry Finn// suggest about America's past and its present?

**Pre-Printed Student Pages (to be decided)**

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 1- Satire Terms <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 1- "[|Giving Seattle the Needle]" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 2- "Maintaining the Crime Supply" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 3- "[|A Modest Proposal]" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 5- "[|The Whiskey Speech]" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 7- "The "˜N' Word: It Just Slips Out" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 12- "[|Pope Makes First Papal Visit to Six Flags]" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 14- "[|Bush Grants Self Permission to Grant More Power to Self]" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 16- "[|Roseanna: Juliet of the Mountains]" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 17- Prompt, Articles, & Rubric for Assessment 1- Satire Analysis

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 20- "To Be or Not To Be" Soliloquy <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 24- Prompt & Rubric for Assessment 2- Original Satire

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 25- "[|The War Prayer]" [|YouTube Version] <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 28- "The American Scholar" (Excerpt) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 31- "[|On the Damned Human Race]" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Act 32- "[|Huck Finn a Masterpiece- or an Insult]?"

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Supplemental "Texts" ie. video, audio, blogs, etc.
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">Threat Stand-Down - [|Monkey Terrorism] - Steven Colbert (3/29/11) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">BP's [|Undersea Dome] - Steven Colbert <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">[|Satire is Very Serious] - Huffington Post <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 40px;">[|Librya - America - NOT war] The Daily Show March 31, 2011 (4/1/11))