river oaks [english]

Be familiar with all of the following for Monday's exam: Introduction to Restoration (468-84) Swift and Satire - Gulliver's Travels , A Modest Proposal Hogarth's visual satire, political cartoons Voltaire's Candide Pope and Wit - heroic couplets, Essay on Man , Rape of the Lock First novels - Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Non-fiction/journalism -- Pepys's Diary , Defoe's Journal , Addison and Steele Samuel Johnson - A Dictionary of the English Language , his "Letter to Lord Chesterfield"

Part of your assignment while reading and studying Maus is to keep a "dialectical journal," or side-by-side notes. These notes will be the basis for your analysis essay. You will also take a written exam on the book on Friday, January 29th. To help you study for the exam and essay, please download a copy of the following study guide: Maus Study Guide (MS Word file) Access to the full site at LaGuardia Community College For additional resources on the book and the author, visit Prof. Marcuse's page from UC Santa Barbara.

Overview & Format Your assignment is to write an analysis of at least three political cartoons, focusing on their treatment of a central contemporary issue -- i.e. the tragedy in Haiti, or the controversy surrounding full body scanners at airports. The essay should be at least 500 words and can include images of the cartoons themselves. All images and text should cite sources (the artists' names can be found on Cagle's page ), and we will create "works cited" pages in class. Content & Organization As discussed in class, the best way to begin is with your thesis. Your subject is satire in political cartoons, but your topic is based on your own interest. Your thesis should be directly related to the methods the cartoons utilize to get their points across. Once you've decided on a thesis, move to the "main idea" for each cartoon. Then, focus your analysis on the cartoons' various rhetorical strategies (i.e. their tone, or use of juxtaposi...

We are reading Jonathan Swift, a writer who satirized politics and religion in the 18th century. Your next paper is to analyze the use of satire in modern political cartoons. To get us started, you will find one cartoon, print and analyze it. Please follow these steps: Go to Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index and browse Choose one you think is funny and/or clever Copy and paste the cartoon into your Word document Write a 100-word paragraph analyzing the artist's use of appeals, irony, imagery and text to convey his/her message. Please include a summary of the primary message. Format according to MLA

For more on the Restoration Period, go to the homepage for the Norton Anthology of English Literature . Click on the picture below to go to Wikipedia's page on Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode :

Your first assignments: JUNIORS Wednesday - Quiz on the Introduction to The Restoration Period Thursday - Read A Modest Proposal SENIORS Wednesday - Bring topic for Process Analysis; read the selection from Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics