Monday, January 11

Due dates:
1/19, 20  Creative Book reports. For ideas and assignment clarification, go to Book Reports
Project examples in back of room. 5 quotes on project. 1/2 page summary. 1/2 page response.
1/27 Final exam: Huck Finn reading comprehension

Today:
1. Vocabulary Cartoons List for Final
2. Creative Book Report due January 19th/20th
3. Continue assignment from yesterday
4. Discuss Huck--Peter Wilkes, religious revival/
5. Emily Dickinson, pages 366, 367, 377
6. Watch Huck movie
7. Punctuation problems--comma
8. Punctuation quiz


According to Mark Twain, what are some incorrect views/problems that
people in the South had?

Story                                           The Problem Twain is Criticizing
1. New judge is gullible                  He doesn't think. It's good to be kind, but . . .
2. Huck tells Jim he was dreaming Huck betrays his friend's trust
3. Grangerfords & Shepherdsons    They don't think about why they're killing; grudges,
                                                     pride, think they're better than others
       Like Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet (Sophia Grangerford marries Harney Shep.)
       Like Civil War (1861-1865) . Twain felt that the Civil War was senseless
*Tangent: How many people died in the Civil War and other wars?
Civil War deaths 620,000 (The U.S. population in 1860 was only 31,000,000 so that's  2%)
WWI                   116,000             17 million total English, German, French, U.S., etc.
WWII                  420,000              85 million total including 12 million from Germany and Poland (6 million Jews) and 8 million people who starved to death in the Soviet Union and 15 million
 in China.  See Wikipedia link: WWII deaths
Korean War          36,000
Vietnam                58,000
Iraq                         6,600   (500,000 Iraqis!)
                                    
4. Jim is sold                         Racism/cruelty/inhumanity toward fellow human beings
5. Pap is ruined by alcohol   Alcoholism
6. Pap tried to kill Huck        Child abuse
7. Colonel Sherburn is          coldhearted
8. Buck Harkness and townspeople are cowards
9. Willing to take advantage of people's gullability (King and Duke)


Examples of comma-splice and run-on sentences
Exercise: Fixing comma-splices

If you were absent, you make click on the link and watch 25 minutes at home: 
Read quietly, 25 minutes.
Discuss book up to chapter 22
HOMEWORK: Finish chapter 31 minimum! Remember, you have to finish the book for the final. The final exam doesn't cover a whole lot after chapter 31, but you need to read at least the last two chapters to know how it ends!

Emily Dickinson, pages 366-377