Due Friday, April 23

Complete 5 poetry reactions for all 5 sets of materials.

All of the poems for the Harlem Renaissance activity can be found here.

Remember a reaction for each collection of poems includes:

Author(s):
Titles of Poems:

Structure and Style Observations:


Content Observations:


Which poem did you find most interesting/ meaningful/ compelling?

Questions Answered

Page Numbers:

In a range of numbers, give the second number in full for numbers through ninety-nine.

2-3

10-12

21-48

89-99

For larger numbers, give only the last two digits of the second number, unless more are necessary.

96-101

103-04

395-401

923-1,003

1,003-05

1,608-774

Italicizing Italicized Titles:

MLA prefers that you UN-italicize an ordinarily italicized title if it appears within an italicized title.

Confused?

A book title: Finding Vampires in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.

How it should look in your citation:

Finding Vampires in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Due Wednesday, April 14

Please bring a revised copy of your rough draft to school so we can continue our peer editing. Notice that the revision guides are all available on the research paper webpage. Also, here is my revised version of the introduction example we discussed last week in class. The document that outlines other introduction requirements must be on a different computer, so I'm unable to post it at this time.

In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates a wide variety of characters which he then forces to interact with one another as Huck journeys down the Mississippi river. During these interactions, these characters must define their relationships with one another and Twain focuses primarily on the negative elements of these relationships instead of the positive ways people could relate. In fact, a central focus of the novel is the way in which characters use other characters to benefit themselves, rather than acting in a selfless way. The main character, Huck, is no exception to this idea, and throughout the novel, Huck acts metaphorically as a vampire, sucking the life and prosperity out of other characters when it best suits him, and discarding them when he has the chance. Huck demonstrates this vampiric behavior most clearly in his relationships with Pap and the Duke and the King. By portraying Huck in this fashion, Twain draws a parallel between Huck and Southern society and criticizes the South’s continued mistreatment of African-Americans.

Due Monday, April 5th

Importance Paragraphs are due today. Please see the examples and information on the research paper page. I know I did not physically hand back your importance thinking activity, but since I didn't provide any feedback on the, I figured you could use the file you have saved at home if you need to.

Also, we'll finish up with your Gatsby quotation activity on Monday.