January 11-15

Next week is finals week: 1st and 2nd periods will be held on Wednesday, January 20 and 5th and 6th  finals on Friday, January 22.  We'll focus on reviewing all of the skills we learned so far first semester, continue with Huckleberry Finn, and enjoy (?!) one last vocab/grammar/Huck quiz.

MONDAY/TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Turn in Huck Finn questions and discuss reading.  Receive Study Guide for final.  Group rewrite activity: Grapes essay.  Group activity: fill in vocab words on sheet.  Huckleberry Finn reading. 

Due:
Huckleberry Finn reading through page 70 (the end of Chapter 12).  After reading, come up with your own original answers to the following questions on a piece of paper:

1. After getting caught in one of his tricks, Huck is told how to better construct the identity of a girl that matches society's "norms" for the 1830s.  Do similar "norms" exist today for rich, poor, male, female, young, old? How could someone pass as a "respectable" member of our society today? If so, what are some examples?

2. Why do you think Huck doesn't tell Jim the truth about what happened with the snake?  How does this show a change in their relationship? 

Homework:   Read Huckleberry Finn up through page 80, Chapter 14.  

Read Martin Luther King Jr's speech "I Have a Dream," and find instances of logos,ethos and pathos.  Is the speech an effective argument in your view?  Be prepared to discuss. 

NOTE: I'll collect journals on Tuesday of next week, January 19.


WEDNESDAY: (5th and 6th only this week) Journal warm-up.   Today, students will practice for the final by reading two articles on a given current event topic and create an outline response (exactly like the final).  We will then discuss/debate the issue and go over responses.


THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up.  Vocab/grammar/Huck quiz. Read Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech as an argument.  Share the logos, ethos, and pathos you found in the speech.  Discuss the effectiveness of the speech, student feedback. View speech.  Huckleberry Finn reading. 

Due:  Huckleberry Finn through Chapter 14, page 80
"I Have a Dream" speech read, notes about logos, ethos and pathos in the speech.  

Homework: Read Huckleberry Finn through Chapter 18, page 105.  How does Mark Twain's description of Tom's dilemma make us wonder what he'll do?  How is this a turning point in the novel? 

NOTE: I'll collect journals on Tuesday of next week, January 19.

Enjoy the long weekend and Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday!  We'll have one more review session on Tuesday before finals.