In Humanities class, Ms. Small teaches us a combination of English and History at the same time. So far, we have covered topics like ancient civilizations, race, and satire. Along with these units we also have an overarching focus on what it means to be human: we explored this in part by reading chapters of books like Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind as well as The Tell-Tale Brain. See two assignments that we did in class below.
For our satire unit, we were assigned to write an essay exploring satire in some form. My choice was to analyze two pieces of literature (one satirical and one not) that have a relating topic and evaluate which one more effectively used rhetorical devices to make an argument dealing with said topic. The topic I chose was relating to animal rights. In the PDF below you can see my essay as well as the two pieces analyzed.
After analyzing satires, we also were tasked with creating our own satirical pieces. For this assignment, my partner was Ronit Avadhuta, and our piece was written and performed during class to satirize the system of debt collection in the United States. We also had to use rhetorical devices in our piece which are highlighted throughout with a key showing specific devices on the first page.