Rubric for Research/Literary Analysis Paper

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Research/Literary Analysis Paper

DUE: March 11 for A day classes, March 12 for B day classes

235 points

 

Late papers will receive half the credit they would have otherwise received, and probably half the comments from me.

Please familiarize yourself with this rubric, as your grade will be derived from it.

Name____________________________________________ Period_____ Date turned in______

1.  Title page with name, date, teacher’s name, title, class, and period	5
2.  Typed, double spaced, 14 font, no spaces between paragraphs, Times New Roman font.  I can’t accept a paper that is not typed.  (Three pages minimum, and of course, you will be docked far more than ten points if you come up short.)	10
3.  Introduction has an attention-getting device that is appropriate for this type of scholarly paper.	15
4.  Thesis statement is well-crafted, thoughtful, and gives the reader a road map of your paper.  No laundry list thesis statements.  Think “over-arching.”	20
5.  Paper is well-organized.  Topic sentences are clear, mini-thesis statements for each paragraph.  All sentence belong in their paragraphs.  Transitions are evident.	20
6.  Sentence structure is sound and varied.	10
7.  Paper contains few or no mechanical errors, such as punctuation, spelling, grammar, and usage.	10
8.  Strong conclusion ties all the information into a nice package.  Your thesis is proven.  (No new information in conclusion.)	15
9.  Work Cited page is flawless.  Refer to: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ A minimum of three sources	40
10.  This paper has accurate parenthetical documentation throughout.  Refer to:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/	40
11.  Ideas are fresh and interesting.  Research is obvious.  You have not merely written off the top of your head, rather you have studied and pondered.  You have come up with ideas that are sound and logical.	25
12.  Meaningful quotations are woven seamlessly into your own sentences.  Set up the quote.  If you can paraphrase, paraphrase.  If, however, the citation you found is oh-so-wonderful as is, by all means, cite it in all its splendor.	25
TOTAL	235

Practice the SAGE test

Go to this link:
http://sageportal.org

Go in as a guest.

You need to do this.

If you were absent in class the day we watched the following video clips, you need to watch them at home.  I need a half page written response to the first one.  After you view the second one, make a T square on your paper, and write the main arguments of both professors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9-qee1m9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EiL1h25rLY

Term 3 Calendar

January 20 MLK	1-21 Teacher Prep Day	1-22 A  Review protocol, Intro: ACT, Twain Quotes Intro: Huck Finn Draw from hat for presentation date. New vocabulary	1-23 B Review protocol, Intro: ACT, Twain Quotes Intro: Huck Finn Draw from hat for presentation date. New vocabulary	1-24 A  Mock ACT test #1, 50 pts HF quiz 1-4 50 pts Doll’s House Book Card Due: 100 points Motif Groups
1-27 B A  Mock ACT test #1, 50 pts HF quiz 1-4 50 pts Doll’s House Book Card due: 100 points Motif Groups	1-28 A HF quiz 5-8, Three ACT quizlets, 30 pts  Motif Groups	1-29 B  HF quiz 5-8, three ACT quizlets, 30 points Motif Groups	1-30 A  HF quiz 9-12, three ACT quizlets, 30 pts, Motif Groups	1-31 B  HF quiz 9-12,  ACT quizlets, 30 pts Motif Groups
2-3 A  HF quiz 13-16, three ACT quizlets, Motif Groups	2-4 B HF quiz 13-16,  three ACT quizlets Motif Groups	2-5 A  HF quiz 17-19, three ACT quizlets, Past Particples/prep for time writing	FEB 6 B HF quiz 17-19, three ACT quizlets, Past Participles/ prep for timed writing	FEB 7 A  HF quiz 20-23, Junior Timed Writing, 5th floor lab
FEB 10 B HF quiz 20-23, Junior Timed Writing, 5th floor lab	FEB 11 A  HF quiz 24-26, three ACT quizlets, Quotation Marks	FEB 12 B   HF quiz 24-26, three ACT quizlets, Quotation Marks	FEB 13 A  HF quiz 27-30, Mock ACT test #2 Parallel Structure	FEB 14 B HF quiz 27-30 Mock ACT test #2 Parallel Structure
FEB 17 Presidents Day	FEB 18 A HF quiz 31-33, past participle quiz, 50 points Motif Groups	FEB 19 B   HF quiz 31-33, past participle quiz, 50 points Motif Groups	FEB 20 A HF 34-37, comma rules, MOCK ACT TEST, 50 points	FEB 21 B HF 34-37, comma rules, MOCK ACT TEST, 50 points
FEB 24 A HF quiz 38-41, comma quiz,	FEB 25 B  HF quiz 38-41, comma quiz,	FEB 26 A HF 42-end quiz,  Vocab Quiz Thesis statement due at the end of the period:  50  Library points:  40	FEB 27 B HF 42-end quiz,  Vocab Quiz Thesis statement due at the end of the period:  50  Library points:  40	FEB 28 A Outline due Blending quotations in correctly, Verbs to use in analysis Mock ACT test #3
MARCH 3 B  Outline due Blending quotations in correctly, Verbs to use in analysis Mock ACT test #3	MARCH 4 ACT test for juniors.  Everyone else stays home.   A/B day	MARCH 5 A  Huck Finn Final Test   Sentence variety	MARCH 6 B Huck Finn Final Test   Sentence variety	3-7 A  MLA Memorized Mark Twain Quote Due:  30 points
3-10 B  MLA Memorized Mark Twain Quote Due:  30 points	3-11 A  Huck Finn Paper Due:  200 points I will model the presentation.	3-12 B Huck Finn Paper Due: 200 points I will model the presentation.	3-13 A  Presentations/ Critiquing (5)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-14 B Presentations/Critiquing (5)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors
3-17 A Presentations/ Critiquing (5)  )  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-18 B Presentations/ Critiquing (3)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-19 A Presentations/ Critiquing (5)  )  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors THIS IS THE LAST DAY I WILL ACCEPT LATE WORK!	3-20 B Presentations/Critiquing (5)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors THIS IS THE LAST DAY I WILL ACCEPT LATE WORK!	3-21 A  Presentations/Critiquing (5)    Individual for IB, pairs for Honors
3-24 B Presentations/ Critiquing (5)    Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-25 A Presentations/ Critiquing (3)	3-26 B Presentations/ Critiquing (5)	3-27 A  See the message on March 19, 20 about late work.     L	Spring Break

Literature Choices for presentations:  The Crucible, The John and Abigail Adams Letters, The Scarlet Letter, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  Honors students may also use A Doll’s House.

A Doll's House Vocabulary

1.        Spendthrift

2.       Tremendous

3.       Caprice

4.       Unassailable

5.       Ascertained

6.       Dissimulation

7.       Obstinate

8.       Inexorable

9.       Amicably

10.   Tarantella

11.   Prudent

12.   Apparition

13.   Consternation

14.   Repudiate

Poetry Assignment

100 points

Memorized Poem: Due: On the day you signed up on the door


100 points
Poetry Log Guidelines: Due January 10 for A day, January 13 for B day

　
After reading several poems, you must select at least ten different poems by at least seven different poets to include in this collection. You may not use poems we have discussed in class, but you may use other poems by poets we have discussed in class.
Copy each poem into your collection. Be sure to include the title and the poet’s name.
You must annotate, using circles, arrows, whatever, to mark and label the poetic devices the poet used in each poem. Be thorough, as you will be deducted for glaring omissions.
You will then write (by that, I mean type) a paragraph for each poem, explicating each one. Look for a "door" into the poem. Is there a point of tension? Is there a shift at some point? You may discuss such as symbols, tone, allusions, alliteration, assonance, rhyme scheme, meter, rhythm, and any other poetic devices used, but be sure to say what those devices DO for the poem. Don’t just note their presence. That’s what the annotations were for. Make meaning. Consider the title. Consider meaning. Make a claim, and back it up. You can do this.


100 points
Original Poetry Booklet Guidelines: Due January 10 for A day, January 13 for B day

You will create ten original poems, using at least seven different forms we’ve learned about in class.
Three, and only three poems may rhyme. At least one poem must rhyme.
Use examples of every poetic device we’ve learned about. (Obviously, you can’t use them all on one poem, but over the course of this assignment, you should utilize each device at least once.)
Look back at some of our poetry experiences in class. Some can be worked up into fine poem.
You need to make an attractive cover, so that the likelihood that you will end up saving this booklet and showing it to your grandchildren is increased.
Please make every attempt to avoid clichés, those over-used, worn out expressions that we’ve all heard before. They have lost their luster, and they will detract from your poem, rather than enhance it. I’m looking for fresh perspectives, unique metaphors, the originality that only you can bring to this assignment. While I’m sure it would be very easy to get away with plagiarizing these poems, I would hope that your honor and your own sense of self would prevent that. Impress me. But more important than that, impress yourself.

Memorized Poem Options...continued

#4  Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea

#5  In honor of the 150^th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, I’m including it as an option, even though it is not really a poem.  One may, however, find in it many poetic devices. 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863 

 

#6  This option is for the rare student who would like to challenge herself/himself with a ridiculously long and wonderful poem called “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe.  You’ll find the entire text online and in our textbook.