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Honors and AP Work

ALL honors students: don't forget that you are to be reading a book off of the list for this nine weeks. If you have a specific request, then please let me know now.

Sophomores
Your outside reading assignment this week is Mark Twain's essay from 1901, "The United States of Lyncherdom." Please read it and then respond to specifics in a 250-word typed report due Friday, February 1st. Consider the following as possible points of focus:
  • What is your overall impression of Twain's essay? What is your first reaction after reading it?
  • How do you read his tone? Is it serious, comical, scornful, satirical, melancholic, etc?
  • What connections can you draw between the essay and Huck Finn, especially the "lynching bee" chapter?
  • Why do you think Twain delayed publication of the essay?
  • How do you think the essay might have been received when it was published?
  • Do you find anything in the essay offensive?
Senior AP
I will give you another take-home multiple choice test to be completed by Friday.

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