Tuesday, December 15, 2015

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

Origins of Christmas Traditions

Watch Mark Twain, His Amazing Adventures. If you were absent, you make click on the link and watch 25 minutes at home: Watch Mark Twain, His Amazing Adventures

Read quietly, 25 minutes.
Discuss bookk up to chapter 22
HOMEWORK: Finish chapter 31 (55 pages)  Sorry

Emily Dickinson, pages 300-306

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Thursday/Friday

1. Read your out-of-class book
Answer the following question on a sheet of paper:
Describe the main character. What do you find appealing about this character?
Staple this journal entry to your reading log

Watch Mark Twain, His Amazing Adventures. If you were absent, you make click on the link and watch 25 minutes at home: Watch Mark Twain, His Amazing Adventures

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HOMEWORK:  Finish chapter 19

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Tuesday, December 8

Watch Mark Twain, His Amazing Adventures. If you were absent, you make click on the link and watch 25 minutes at home: Watch Mark Twain, His Amazing Adventures

Read quietly, 15 minutes.
HOMEWORK:  Finish chapter 19
Emily Dickinson, pages 300-306


Thursday, December 3, 2015

Thur/Friday

Notes on the Hero Quest
Listen to chapter 12 Huck Finn on TapeShow Prezi: Inspiration for Huck Finn
Discuss "Jim and the ghost"
HOMEWORK: Read chapters 13, 14, 15 (16 pages). Try to read ahead or you'll have lots of homework next week.
Thur/Fri BRING YOUR OUT OF CLASS READING BOOK
MONDAY: Garbage Man Essay due (finally!)
Remember, this is an argumentative essay, so you need to take a stand and thoroughly convince the boss. Why should he or she hire him. Be sure that you elaborate your ideas. The goal for elaboration is to write three or four sentences for each point you are making as you develop your point. If you cite and example (Hire Pete because he is strong), explain for at least three sentences (maybe 5) why that is important.
Proofreading: Check the following list of proofreading errors you need to avoid: Proofreading

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Tue/Wed

Review
1. Why is it surprising that Huck and Jim found the house where they did? (ch 9) What is the significance of  this?
2. Archtype. Huck as initiation hero
Notes on the Hero Quest
Listen to chapter 12 Huck Finn on TapeShow Prezi: Inspiration for Huck Finn
Discuss "Jim and the ghost"
HOMEWORK: Read chapters 13, 14, 15 (16 pages)
Thur/Fri BRING YOUR OUT OF CLASS READING BOOK
MONDAY: Garbage Man Essay due (finally!)
Remember, this is an argumentative essay, so you need to take a stand and thoroughly convince the boss. Why should he or she hire him. Be sure that you elaborate your ideas. Proofread. 

Monday, November 30, 2015

Monday

Review quiz:
1. What object does Jim use to tell people's fortune?
2. Who is described as having greasy black hair that hangs down like vines and as having skin that is "a white to make a body sick, a tree toad white, a fish belly white"?
3. List two pieces of evidence that reveal that the Widow Douglas is a good person (1/2 each)
4. Explain why Pap Finn is able to trick the new judge and his wife into believing that he is "reformed." There's a good chance that you would know better. What clouds their perspective?
5. What does Huck put on the axe blade? Be specific.
6. Tom and Huck play a practical joke on Jim by taking his hat off his head while he is sleeping and hanging it on a tree branch. Later, after Jim claims that witches did it and he tells his friends the story, Huck says that after the experience Jim would never be a good slave again. Why is that?

Show Prezi
Discuss "Jim and the ghost"
HOMEWORK: Read chapters 11, 12

Thursday, November 19, 2015

November 20

Quiz quesions
1. What object does Jim use to tell people's fortune?
2. Who is described as having greasy black hair that hangs down like vines and as having skin that is "a white to make a body sick, a tree toad white, a fish belly white"?
3. List two pieces of evidence that reveal that the Widow Douglas is a good person (1/2 each)
4. Explain why Pap Finn is able to trick the new judge and his wife into believing that he is "reformed." There's a good chance that you would know better. What clouds their perspective?
5. What does Huck put on the axe blade? Be specific.
6. Tom and Huck play a practical joke on Jim by taking his hat off his head while he is sleeping and hanging it on a tree branch. Later, after Jim claims that witches did it and he tells his friends the story, Huck says that after the experience Jim would never be a good slave again. Why is that?

Huck Finn online AUDIO version of Huck Finn
Listen to chapter 8 as a class: Huck Finn

Quiet reading time for independent reading of books that you checked out from the library.
If you don't have a book, borrow one from the book cart at the front of the room.


BOOK REPORT due last Monday before final exams.
See BOOK REPORT EXAMPLES. Note: This are the book report requirements for last year. I will change them a bit and give you a handout when we get back from Thanksgiving.