2/24: AP Lang

Students will discuss the limits of satire.

Agenda:
- Warm-up: Read Joe Sacco's cartoon
- Discuss its effectiveness (or lack thereof)
- Sacco PPT
- Seminar Prep: Should there be limits on what a satirist says or publishes?
- Table 1: Assume the identity of Fleming Rose
- Table 2: Assume the identity of Anthony Faiola
- Table 3: Assume the identity of Robert Harris
- Table 4: Assume the identity of Norman Finkelstein
- Table 5: Assume the identity of Caitlin Dewey
- Table 6: Assume the identity of Stephen Marche

HW:
- Prep for Tuesday's seminar (create and share one document as an expert group):
1) What your author believes about satire's limits
2) How your author would respond to all of the other authors' views
3) Questions you might ask of your author
4) Questions you might ask of the other authors
5) Useful quotations from your piece and others

Reminders:
- Optional: Pick the Oscars!
- Did you register for the AP test yet?
- Your own satire as argument (the deadline is today)
- Brown Style Imitation (the deadline is today)
- Vocab.com list, Satire Tones & Techniques, due/DL is today