Assignment: Eng11 Huck Finn 76-95 Date:Fri, Feb 29, 2008
English 11Huckleberry Finn reading and test schedule
Period 5: Test over chapters 11-13
Kohlberg’s levels of moral reasoning: Handout
Rationalization: We “rationalize” when we use reason to support a moral position that we are biased toward. Southerners in the South used rationalizations to argue that slavery was pleasing to god. Mark Twain makes fun of the way Huck rationalizes stealing, among other things.
Assignment: Eng11 Huck Finn 55-75 Date:Thu, Feb 28, 2008
English 11Huckleberry Finn reading and test schedule
Discuss Huck’s dilemma between loyalty to Jim and obedience to the rules of society--ie being an “Abolitionist” p 43
Discuss Kohlberg’s levels of moral reasoning. What levels does Huck show as he goes through the novel? Levels of Moral Reasoning Handout
Assignment: Eng 11 Huck Finn 36-55 Date:Wed, Feb 27, 2008
English 11Huckleberry Finn reading and test schedule
Explain why Pap’s speech about “the govment” in Chapter 6 is an example of dramatic irony. Handout on irony
Assignment: Eng11 Huck Finn 15-36 Date:Tue, Feb 26, 2008
English 11Huckleberry Finn reading and test schedule
“In the world of Huck as an adolescent, even if it is 150 years ago, there are common elements in the alienation, in the hoping to connect, in finding friendship, in trying to find out what’s right and wrong.” Nancy Methelis
Discuss Huck’s skepticism of religion, of the romantic “authorities,” of superstition. How do we find out what is true about the world?
Discuss Twain’s use of dialect, keeping in mind the notice he posts at the beginning of the book:
In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.
I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
Mark Twain makes heavy use of dialect in Huckleberry Finn. How successful do you feel he is? What are some advantages for an author in deciding to render speech in dialect, as Twain does? What are some possible disadvantages?
Assignment: Eng11 Huck Finn 1-14 Date:Mon, Feb 25, 2008
English 11Huckleberry Finn reading and test schedule
Huckleberry will not only travel the Mississippi River on a physical journey, but a moral journey as well. He will experience events, meet people, and visit places that will show him the difference between good and evil, the dangers of living by romantic doctrines, and what can happen if human nature is left unchecked.
Discuss: 1. Point of View: what is the effect of the story being told in Huck’s voice? Point of View Handout
2. Romanticism, as illustrated by Tom Sawyer Romanticism Handout
Assignment: Spring Break Date:Fri, Feb 22, 2008
English 11no school
Assignment: Eng11 The Civil War in Literature Date:Thu, Feb 21, 2008
English 11Test: Stephen Crane’s “A Mystery of Heroism” page 487-492 (an emphasis on “Words to Own")
For Friday: Read “The Civil War” readings.
Select your favorite reading and be ready to explain why you chose it. (p. 476-484)
Assignment: Timed Writing Date:Wed, Feb 20, 2008
English 1140-minute timed writing.
Assignment: Review essays: discuss conciseness Date:Tue, Feb 19, 2008
English 11Review: Rules for writing (with an emphasis on “conciseness") A copy of the slideshow I will discuss in class is here.
Assignment: Eng11 Timed Writing Date:Fri, Feb 15, 2008
English 1140 minute timed writing to a prompt
Assignment: Eng11: Preparing for timed writings Date:Thu, Feb 14, 2008
English 11Correct test.
Review ABCDs of timed writings
Practice outlining an essay from a given prompt, with emphasis on TRANSITIONS (See literature book, page 899)
Handout of transitions you should bring with you to the timed writing
Tomorrow: 40 minute timed prompt
Homework for Monday: read “A Mystery of Heroism” p. 487-492
Assignment: Eng11 No Class Date:Wed, Feb 13, 2008
English 11Early Release: No English class
Assignment: Eng11 MUS Writing Assessment review Date:Tue, Feb 12, 2008
Mr. Yarbrough will present information on the MUS Writing Assessment, which will occur March 5
Hand out 50 question test, due Thursday (typed and printed, either in Word or on Mosaic):
Assignment: Eng11 Writing: Editing Sentences Date:Mon, Feb 11, 2008
English 1150 Point Test Tuesday over Parallel Construction, Dangling Modifiers, Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences, Active Voice
Review how to
- avoid nonparallel constructions
- identify and correct misplaced or dangling modifiers
- avoid comma splices, run-on sentences (or fused sentences) and sentence fragments
- use active voice
Watch and take notes on Annenberg Video: http://www.learner.org/resources/series128.html#
Your literature book also teaches this material:
Parallel Structure: page 337
Using transitional expressions: page 899
Assignment: Eng11 Mark Twain Date:Fri, Feb 08, 2008
English 11Test over “Life on the Mississippi”
Video over Mark Twain
Assignment: Eng11 “Life on the Mississippi” Date:Thu, Feb 07, 2008
English 11In class: test: “A Pair of Silk Stockings”
Discuss: Mark Twain: page 450-451
Homework: read “Life on the Mississippi” p. 453-462
Learn the “Words to Own” at the bottom of the pages
Assignment: Eng11 “A Pair of Silk Stockings” Date:Wed, Feb 06, 2008
English 11Test over Frederick Douglass
Homework: read “A Pair of Silk Stockings” p. 435-443
Know “words to own” at the bottom of the pages
Test tomorrow over Kate Chopin
Assignment: Eng11 “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” Date:Tue, Feb 05, 2008
English 11Discuss in class, p. 417-422
Be sure you can give a simple explanation of “realism” as the term is used in talking about literature. Also be able to explain what “naturalism” is and what a “psychological novel” is.
Homework: read “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” p. 424-430
Do “Words to Own” at the bottom of the pagesTest over this reading tomorrow.
Assignment: Eng11 The rise of realism Date:Mon, Feb 04, 2008
English 11In class: finish “Moby Dick”
Allow time for discussion.
Homework: read first part of introduction to realism (p. 408-417)
Assignment: Eng11 Moby Dick Date:Fri, Feb 01, 2008
Intro to Moby Dick
Begin video Moby Dick