Due After Break

You will need to read through Chapter 33 of Huckleberry Finn. If you do your reading early in break, make sure to review right before we come back to school in case there is a reading quiz.

Your SBAC Performance Task will be submitted through Turnitin and is due January 5th at 12:00pm. For those of you who have not yet had your Minister's Black Veil letters graded, please check in periodically on Turnitin towards the end of break to see your comments. I am able to see who has checked their comments, so please make sure that you do so.

Happy Reading and Happy Vacation!

Due Tuesday

Please read through chapter 9 for Tuesday.

Sorry I didn't get these posted for the weekend, but here are some important themes/motifs in Huck Finn that you will be wanting to pay attention to as you do your reading. 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. Many of these topics are mentioned in chapters 1-5, so you may need to go back and mark them from that reading as well.

Superstition
The role of the river
Women (and their influence on Huck)
Religion
Education
Class Consciousness
Racial Identity
Clothing
Money/Wealth/Acquisitiveness (wanting to acquire stuff)
Deception
Search for Approval
Protectiveness

Due Friday and Performance Task Info

Please read Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" and "Life on the Mississippi" focusing on Twain's storytelling and use of humor.



SBAC Performance Task packet

Writing Transfer Overhead

Poetry Assignment

Please continue to work on the poetry assignment that we started before Thanksgiving. I would appreciate it if you could have at least three of them done by Thursday, but I will not collect the assignment from you until Friday. If you did not bring your book home, most likely you will be able to find the text to the poem if you google the title.

Read the following poems:

334- “The Tide Rises”

336- “The Psalm of Life”

347- “The Chambered Nautilus”

352- “First Snowfall”

Write a response for each poem consisting of:

1. Literal Summary (1-2 sentences):

2. Interpretation/Theme: What deeper meaning does this poem convey (2-3 sentences)

3. Style analysis: What poetry devices (rhyme, figurative language, allusions, diction...) does this poem make use of? How do they help enhance the theme? (1-2 sentences)

Please include answers to these three questions after the title of each poem on your paper. Then, complete question number for after you have read and responded to all 4 poems:

4. What similarities do these poems share? In what way do they differ from each other? Which one did you find the most enjoyable? Explain your thoughts... (4-5 sentences)

Updates

An author list and study guide for the Romanticism test is available here.

I have not been able to locate an already made quizlet that covers all of this material.

Reading Due Wednesday, 12/3

For Wednesday, you will need to complete the passages by Frederick Douglass (426-430) in your textbook, and the photocopies of the Harriet Jacobs text. Because of my lack of photocopies, we are staggering the reading so that we can share the copies available. Here is the recommended reading timeline:

Window Side of the room:

Due Tuesday: Frederick Douglass
Due Wednesday: Harriet Jacobs

Door Side of the room:

Due Tuesday: Harriet Jacobs (remember to bring your copies back to class)
Due Wednesday: Frederick Douglass

If you were absent today, I'd recommend reading the Douglass excerpt in your book regardless of where you sit, and you can read the Jacobs for Wednesday.