Friday, December 20, 2019
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
HF Chapters 1-5 due Wednesday
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. One is available here, but there are several other options online.
Although understanding the plot is important, looking at how the topics below 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 the topics below 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
Friday, December 13, 2019
Finish Scarlet Letter for Monday and Analysis Things
Please make sure that you have finished the Scarlet Letter for Monday.
Will there be a happy ending? Will Hester and Dimmesdale live happily ever after? Will Pearl become the first female governor of Boston? Finish your reading to find out!
Our analysis lesson slideshow from in class on Friday is available here. All student examples are showing positive examples of analysis in different ways. Shout outs to the students who made the analysis hall of fame!
Will there be a happy ending? Will Hester and Dimmesdale live happily ever after? Will Pearl become the first female governor of Boston? Finish your reading to find out!
Our analysis lesson slideshow from in class on Friday is available here. All student examples are showing positive examples of analysis in different ways. Shout outs to the students who made the analysis hall of fame!
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Monday, December 9, 2019
Reading due Wednesday
For Wednesday, you will be reading two autobiographical 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.
I am short on paper copies, so I will provide one Jacobs handout per table tonight. If you have the handout, you should plan on reading Jacobs tonight and Douglass on Tuesday night, remembering to bring the handout back to your table partner to give them in class tomorrow.
If you did not receive the handout today, you should read Douglass in your red book tonight, and then read the Jacobs piece Tuesday night.
As they both address the slave experience, both pieces are upsetting to read, the Jacobs piece the more so, so do your best to work with each text despite the disturbing content.
A not so great PDF copy of the Jacobs piece is available here if you don't want to wait, or you don't trust your table partner.
I am short on paper copies, so I will provide one Jacobs handout per table tonight. If you have the handout, you should plan on reading Jacobs tonight and Douglass on Tuesday night, remembering to bring the handout back to your table partner to give them in class tomorrow.
If you did not receive the handout today, you should read Douglass in your red book tonight, and then read the Jacobs piece Tuesday night.
As they both address the slave experience, both pieces are upsetting to read, the Jacobs piece the more so, so do your best to work with each text despite the disturbing content.
A not so great PDF copy of the Jacobs piece is available here if you don't want to wait, or you don't trust your table partner.
Friday, December 6, 2019
Scarlet Letter through Chapter 17 for Monday
Yes, this is a long reading chunk, but it's about to get so good! Make sure you don't miss out on the excitement by falling behind.
Are we going to find out who the father of Pearl is? Wait, are we?
Will Hester stop feeling so isolated and be able to be with the man she loves?
Will Pearl come to symbolize even more than she already does?
Will Chillingworth get over the fact that his wife cheated on him?
All this and more in chapters 8-17!
Also, if you missed the freewrite assignment(s) they are available at the end of this slideshow.
Are we going to find out who the father of Pearl is? Wait, are we?
Will Hester stop feeling so isolated and be able to be with the man she loves?
Will Pearl come to symbolize even more than she already does?
Will Chillingworth get over the fact that his wife cheated on him?
All this and more in chapters 8-17!
Also, if you missed the freewrite assignment(s) they are available at the end of this slideshow.
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