Reading over Break

Please read through chapter 33 of Huck Finn over break, continuing to think about claims and evidence that support our focus topics.

If you were unavailable to attend the extra credit session, please email me and explain why you were not be able to attend and I will email you the link to the video. I'd rather people attend the sessions after school, so I've chosen not to post the link online.

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. This will be due Tuesday, January 2nd.

Reading due Thursday

For Thursday, 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.

If you have the Jacobs piece, please read this first and bring to class tomorrow to exchange. If you did not receive a handout today, please read the Douglass piece tonight, so you will be free tomorrow to read the piece by Jacobs.

A not so great PDF copy of the Jacobs piece is available here.

Practice "in-class essay"

Here you will find the slides from class today that talk about the importance of audience, audience, audience.

After review the slides, please set a timer for 40 minutes during which you will read and write (by hand) an essay on the prompt available here. Please make sure you are showing off your knowledge an insights into audience as you perform your analysis. This essay will be graded on completion, so there's no sense in writing longer than the 40 minutes since that's the time frame you need to get used to.