Please read through Chapter 33 of Huckleberry Finn!
Please consider starting your synthesis essay. The prompt is available here and the slideshow is available here! This essay is due January 14th on Turnitin.
If you watched the extra credit video, write-up information is available below. This will be due on Friday, January 11th.
The extra credit assignment consists of a two page typed reflection. The first page should be on things that you learned from the video, and the second page should be more of a reflection: what did it make you think about, what was important about it, what issues did it raise, etc. Please don't skimp on the second half of the assignment.
Friday, December 21, 2018
Friday, December 14, 2018
Reading Due Monday
Please read chapters 1-5 of Huck Finn for Monday. If you were unable to check a book out from the library, there are several free electronic editions you can find online.
Although understanding the plot is important, looking at how these topics help to create our understanding of characters is even more significant.
I suggest that you mark these topics in your text (or on a post-it). If you want to be extra fancy, you can also color-code these different ideas in your notes.
Superstition
The role of the river
Appeal to father figures
Women (and their influence on Huck)
Religion
Education
Class Consciousness
Racial Identity
Self identity
Clothing
Money/Wealth/Acquisitiveness (wanting to acquire stuff)
Deception
Search for Approval
Protectiveness
Although understanding the plot is important, looking at how these topics help to create our understanding of characters is even more significant.
I suggest that you mark these topics in your text (or on a post-it). If you want to be extra fancy, you can also color-code these different ideas in your notes.
Superstition
The role of the river
Appeal to father figures
Women (and their influence on Huck)
Religion
Education
Class Consciousness
Racial Identity
Self identity
Clothing
Money/Wealth/Acquisitiveness (wanting to acquire stuff)
Deception
Search for Approval
Protectiveness
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Life on the Mississippi
Please use this link and read chapter 4 (and 5 if there's time) paying careful attention to how Twain's diction describes the setting as well as his use of humor.
Friday, December 7, 2018
Reading due Tuesday and Friday
For Tuesday, you will be reading two narratives. One is by Frederick Douglass and is an excerpt from his autobiography, My Bondage, My Freedom and is the red book from pages 426-430. The other is a handout from Harriet Jacob's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, and will be read on hand out.
You may pick up a handout of the Jacobs piece after school today, or wait until Monday to pick up the handout.
A not so great PDF copy of the Jacobs piece is available here.
Due Friday
You will be reading the John Brown articles in your white book and considering the question: is John Brown best seen as a patriot or a terrorist? (731-754). You will be gathering evidence from your articles on a 4 quadrant chart that you will turn in for points. The evidence that you list should be a combination of paraphrase and direct quotations and contain a parenthetical citation of author and page number. Each quadrant concept is explained in more detail below.
Patriot:
In this quadrant, you will list evidence from your articles supporting the claim that John Brown and his actions should be seen as patriotic.
Terrorist:
In this quadrant, you will list evidence from your articles supporting the claim that John Brown and his actions should be seen as terrorism.
Refutations and outside examples that support Patriotism:
In this quadrant you are going to list examples from your articles where you refute the evidence the writer gives you. In other words, your author is claiming he is a terrorist, but you are going to refute your author's claim and thereby prove that he is actually better seen as a patriot.
You are also going to try to find a relevant example from another time or place in history that you will compare to Brown and allow you to prove that he was a patriot.
Refutations and outside examples that support Terrorist
In this quadrant you are going to list examples from your article where you refute the evidence the writer gives you. In other words, they are claiming he is a patriot, but you are going to refute your author's claim and thereby prove that he is actually better seen as a terrorist.
You are also going to try to find a relevant example from another time or place in history that you will compare to Brown and allow you to prove that he was a terrorist.
And if you'd like more reading:
Here is the text of the Bush eulogy, which would give you an opportunity to consider how much of an impact speaker can play on the purpose as well. It's important to note the person delivering the eulogy is his son and former president George W. Bush.
You may pick up a handout of the Jacobs piece after school today, or wait until Monday to pick up the handout.
A not so great PDF copy of the Jacobs piece is available here.
Due Friday
You will be reading the John Brown articles in your white book and considering the question: is John Brown best seen as a patriot or a terrorist? (731-754). You will be gathering evidence from your articles on a 4 quadrant chart that you will turn in for points. The evidence that you list should be a combination of paraphrase and direct quotations and contain a parenthetical citation of author and page number. Each quadrant concept is explained in more detail below.
Patriot:
In this quadrant, you will list evidence from your articles supporting the claim that John Brown and his actions should be seen as patriotic.
Terrorist:
In this quadrant, you will list evidence from your articles supporting the claim that John Brown and his actions should be seen as terrorism.
Refutations and outside examples that support Patriotism:
In this quadrant you are going to list examples from your articles where you refute the evidence the writer gives you. In other words, your author is claiming he is a terrorist, but you are going to refute your author's claim and thereby prove that he is actually better seen as a patriot.
You are also going to try to find a relevant example from another time or place in history that you will compare to Brown and allow you to prove that he was a patriot.
Refutations and outside examples that support Terrorist
In this quadrant you are going to list examples from your article where you refute the evidence the writer gives you. In other words, they are claiming he is a patriot, but you are going to refute your author's claim and thereby prove that he is actually better seen as a terrorist.
You are also going to try to find a relevant example from another time or place in history that you will compare to Brown and allow you to prove that he was a terrorist.
And if you'd like more reading:
Here is the text of the Bush eulogy, which would give you an opportunity to consider how much of an impact speaker can play on the purpose as well. It's important to note the person delivering the eulogy is his son and former president George W. Bush.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Scarlet Letter Quotations
Below are the Scarlet Letter Quotations so you can finish up writing about the interesting thoughts that each one generates in your brain.
1. “We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.” (Hester)
2. “I have a strange fancy,” observed the sensitive minister, “that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and that thou canst never meet thy Pearl again…”
3. The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers…
4. Just where she had paused the brook chanced to form a pool, so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of her little figure...This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself.
5. “Dost thou know thy mother now, child?” asked she, reproachfully, but with a subdued tone. “Wilt thou come across the brook and own thy mother, now that she has her shame upon her?”
6. Tempted by a dream of happiness, he [the minister] had yielded himself with deliberate choice, as he had never done before, to what he knew was a deadly sin. And the infectious poison of that sin had been thus rapidly diffused throughout his moral system.
7. “Madman, hold! What is your purpose?” whispered he [Chillingworth]. “Wave back that woman! Cast off this child! All shall be well! Do not blacken your fame and perish in dishonor! I can save you! Would you bring infamy on your sacred profession?”
8. Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken...as her tears fell upon her father’s cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother too, Pearl’s errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled.
1. “We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.” (Hester)
2. “I have a strange fancy,” observed the sensitive minister, “that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and that thou canst never meet thy Pearl again…”
3. The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers…
4. Just where she had paused the brook chanced to form a pool, so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of her little figure...This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself.
5. “Dost thou know thy mother now, child?” asked she, reproachfully, but with a subdued tone. “Wilt thou come across the brook and own thy mother, now that she has her shame upon her?”
6. Tempted by a dream of happiness, he [the minister] had yielded himself with deliberate choice, as he had never done before, to what he knew was a deadly sin. And the infectious poison of that sin had been thus rapidly diffused throughout his moral system.
7. “Madman, hold! What is your purpose?” whispered he [Chillingworth]. “Wave back that woman! Cast off this child! All shall be well! Do not blacken your fame and perish in dishonor! I can save you! Would you bring infamy on your sacred profession?”
8. Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken...as her tears fell upon her father’s cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother too, Pearl’s errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Colonial Authors Revisions
The slide show from class today is available here. Your assignment, which is due Friday, is on the last slide. If you choose to rewrite analytical units, please do NOT rewrite on the example of the Henry allusion that is used in my examples.
Scarlet Letter Vocab will be due before break. Please schedule a time to come in before or after school in the next two weeks to get that done. I will be leaving not later than 3:15 on December 21st, so make sure you don't save it until the last minute.
Scarlet Letter Vocab will be due before break. Please schedule a time to come in before or after school in the next two weeks to get that done. I will be leaving not later than 3:15 on December 21st, so make sure you don't save it until the last minute.
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