Chapter 13, the "end" of the Huck Unit and the Essay

1. Your Homework was to read Chapter 13.  Respond to the questions from 13 in your Huck Document for a classwork grade.

2. Then, read the questions from chapters 14 and 15- Answer them, if are able.

3.  Lastly, look at the essay that you will write in class tomorrow for a project grade and plan it out so that you may complete it in the time allowed in the class period.

Homework- Read Chapters 14 and 15.

______________________________________________________________________________A. Chapter 13

How do Huck and Jim search for the skiff?

Why are they searching for the skiff?  Once they find it, what do they do?  Explain their overall plan.

What do they find floating?

What does Huck convince the watchman of on the ferryboat, with his theatrics?  For what reason?

How does Huck help the “gang” on the steamboat?

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B. 14 and 15

Chapter 14

What “loot” does Huck and Jim get from their exploits in the last chapter?  List the items.

How does Jim feel about adventure and heroism?  Why?

What is exceptional about Jim, according to Huck?

What does Huck read to Jim?

 What are the responsibilities of Kings, according to Huck?

What does Jim think about King Solomon? What are his two reasons?

What does Jim think of the French language?  Why- for what two reasons?

Chapter 15

Where does Huck go?

What does Jim think has happened before he understands the truth?  How does this make him feel towards Huck?

What does Huck have difficulty in doing, at the end of the chapter?  Why?

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C.  Plan this essay for tomorrow

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Unit Project

Chapters 9-15

Essay- Huckleberry (characterization)

Task- write a four to five paragraph essay that explains at least two of the three aspects of Huckleberry’s character, listed below.  You must support your observations with at least two examples from different chapters in the text itself, for each observation.  Of course, your examples must be specific to chapters 9-15.  You may use your novel to reference the examples you decide to use for support.

-deceptive and/or manipulative qualities

-heroic qualities

-perspective on slaves

Chapter 12

Write your responses to these questions in your Google Document for Huck Finn

Where are Huck and Jim hiding?  What are they discussing?

Explain at least three of the exceptional characteristics of Huck and Jim’s Raft.

What major city do they pass as they travel on the river?  How can they tell what it is?

How does Huckleberry get supplies for Jim and himself?

On the fifth night below St. Louis, what do they discover?  Explain the situation as thoroughly as you are able.

What do Jim and Huck decide to do about the “situation”?

What predicament are they left in, at the close of the chapter?

Homework- Read Chapters 13 and 14.

Back to Huck- Chapters 9-11-Assigned May 21

Reference Chapters 9-11, for the following activities and questions- due by the end of the period.

Write your responses into the Google Doc for Huck Finn!!!

Chapter 9

A.      Find the paragraph and write the beginning sentence of that paragraph for the following items in Chapter 9:

1.       Cave described as a man-made architecture.

2.       Poetic description of the storm

3.       Companionship of Huck and Jim

4.       Nature as a companion

B.      After you have located these passages, explain the significance of the passage to the themes we have explored so far in the novel

C.      Explain the discovery that Huck and Jim make in chapter 9- include at least 5 details about this discovery.

Chapter 10

List at least three things in chapter 10 that, generally, bring bad luck.  Also, include what the specific consequences are for these things that bring bad luck.

What happens to Jim in this chapter?

What is the size of the fish that Huck and Jim catch?

What does Huck decide to do, near the end of the chapter? Why?

Where does he stop, on his way?

Chapter 11

Who is Mrs. Judith Loftis- how is she characterized?  Make a list of at least three details to support your evaluation of her character.

What information does Huck get from Mrs.  Judith Loftis?

What does Huck discover, concerning Jim?

Where does Huck go after meeting with Loftis?

"Rhetorical Devices"

Literary techniques and elements are the writerly tools most of you are familiar with.  Some of the essays and/or speeches that you will have to analyze for Part 3 of the Common Core Regents exam, however, make use of the what is referred to in the directions as "Rhetorical Devices".  We have studied these and applied them but you have not made use of them in your analysis of the Part 3 question.  You are trying to rely mostly on the other writerly tools that are referred to as literary.  Refer to the directions in Part 3 of the Common Core exams on the website- nysedregents.org/hsela

You will find that the writing samples that the exam selects to use can be more easily analyzed and responded to by identifying the following techniques that writers use:

Compare/Contrast
Classification/Division
Process Analysis
Definition
Description
Narration
Exemplification
Cause/ Effect

In some cases, the writers of the selections on the exam do not use literary elements/techniques- trying to analyze the text that way is difficult and time consuming.

In a google document that you created to explain the phrase "distinguish your claim....", define each of these above.  Then, look at the Part 3 selected texts on the Common Core exam website to identify at least one of the above terms in each of the Part 3 questions from the three different test dates on the website.

Transition from a Transition: from Pap to Jackson Island

Respond to the following question in your Huck Finn Google Document.

Chapter 7

What important event/useful acquisition takes place, at the beginning of this chapter?  Why is it crucial to the plot of Chapters 7 and 8?

What does Huckleberry make people believe?  How does he do it?  How does this add to the development of his character in the novel?

Where does he go?  What does he do?

Chapter 8

Why is there a cannon being fired at the beginning of this chapter?

What does Huckleberry discover in his new home?  What is his reaction to this discovery?

  

Who does Huckleberry discover?  Summarize the events relayed by his “new friend”.

What “investment” has his new acquaintance made?  List them.

How do we understand this character by the information he has given to Huckleberry?

Overview- Explain the world that the three focal characters of these chapters live in.  What are their rules, values and qualities that enable them to survive?  Define what at least two of these characters share and concisely identify the environment that these three characters inhabit.  In doing so, what comment and/ or conclusion does our author, Mark Twain, make about human nature?

Chapter 2- Huckleberry Finn

Chapter 2- Huckleberry Finn

English 11

Mr. Buyce

From your reading for homework, answer the following questions.  Answer what you able to without your novel; use the book for the questions you cannot answer.  Be sure to be accurate in your responses.  Please work alone, as you will be evaluated on an individual basis.

Write your responses into the last Google Doc that you have for Huckleberry Finn.

Chapter 2

1.       Who hears Huck and Tom?

2.       What uncomfortable thing happens to Huck?

3.       What does Tom Sawyer do?

4.       How does Jim explain his hat being taken?

5.       Explain the stories Jim tells?

6.       How do other slaves react to Jim’s stories?

7.       How are Jim’s fellow slaves characterized?

8.       What kind of status has Jim set himself up with, to his fellows?  How has he done that?

9.       Why is Jim “ruined for a servant”?

10.   Who does Huck and Tom find?

11.   Where do the boys go?

12.   What do they do once they are there?  What do they call it?

13.   Explain the oath of Sawyer’s gang?

14.   What do the boy’s decide about Huckleberry’s family?

15.   What is the function of Sawyer’s gang?  For what reason?

16.   What is the gang’s understanding of “ransom”?

17.   What does the gang treat women? Why?

18.   What do Tom and the gang plan to do in a week?

19.   What happens to Huckleberry’s clothes?

20.   Write a paragraph on the cultural understanding of Jim, his fellow slaves and the boys in this chapter.  How are each defined- what are they representations of?  What comment is Twain making on each of these type of characters?

Ch 1 (Huck Finn) Answer C in a Google Doc.

titled the Wild World of HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Answer these questions below.

A. Comprehension1.  What other book did Mark Twain write?

2.  What does the speaker of this passage tell us about Twain's handling of the truth?

3.  Why does our speaker leave the widow's house and then return?

4.  What does the widow do before meals?

5.  Why is the speaker not concerned with Moses?

6.  What habits do the speaker and the widow have?

7.  What place does miss Watson tell our narrator about?How does he feel about this place?

8.  Why doesn't our narrator want to go to the good place?

9.  What bad sign does our narrator receive?

10.  What does our narrator do to protect himself?

11.  Where does the narrator go?  How does he get there?  Who is waiting for him there?

B. Analysis

12.  What is our speaker's education?  Support your response with proof from the text.

13.  What does our narrator's observation about the author explain about writers?

14.  How does our narrator feel about "civilized" life?  Explain your answer with proof from the text.

15.  How does the speaker feel about religion- Christianity?

16.  How does he feel about the supernatural? Support your response with reference to the text.

C. Literary Element- Characterization
In a paragraph, explain how our narrator is characterized in this first chapter.  Explain at least three different aspects of his personality, using evidence from the text to support your observations.

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"Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Open the link below and read the first three pages of the Letter.   After you have read the Letter, identify the techniques below that MLK uses.

MLKJr Letter

TECHNIQUES

A. Appeals

1. Logos

2. Pathos

3. Ethos

B. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

1. Thesis

2. Appeals?

3. Rhetorical Techniques

a) Example

1. historical

a. biblical

b. philosophers

c. revolutionaries

2. everyday life

b) Cause and Effect

c) Classification/ Division

d) Definition

e) Process Analysis

"Story of an Hour" and "Richard Cory"

Write your responses to both of the following writing tasks in the Google document that you created and shared with me yesterday (if this is unclear, look at the previous post- from yesterday).

You must finish both of these writing tasks, below, by the end of this period.

A. Write a well-developed paragraph in which you use ideas from both "The Story of an Hour" (628-) and "Richard Cory" (644) to establish a controlling idea about appearances. Develop your controlling idea using specific examples and details from both poems.

B. Choose a specific literary element (e.g., theme, characterization, structure, point of view, etc.) or literary technique (e.g., symbolism, irony, figurative language, etc.) used by one of the poets. Using specific details from either “The Story of an Hour" or "Richard Cory”, in a well-developed paragraph, show how the author uses that element or technique to develop the passage.

Homework- Read Martin Luther King Jr.s "from Letter from Birmingham Jail" (p 1109-1112) and answer the questions that follow.

Exploring Modern Poetry with Comprehensive Responses

Write the following responses in a google document.

A. Write a well-developed paragraph in which you use ideas from both “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” to establish a controlling idea about individuality. Develop your controlling idea using specific examples and details from both poems.

B. Choose a specific literary element (e.g., theme, characterization, structure, point of view, etc.) or literary technique (e.g., symbolism, irony, figurative language, etc.) used by one of the poets. Using specific details from either “anyone lived ……” or  “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, in a well-developed paragraph, show how the author uses that element or technique to develop the passage.

Prufrock and anyone...

Second Half of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

Your homework assignment from the previous class- read stanzas 7, 8 and 9.

A.     Summarize stanzas 7, 8, and 9 (Homework Grade)

7-

8-

9-

*What common point do all of these stanzas share?

B.     After listening to a reading of the rest of the poem, with annotations, read the rest of the poem to locate the literary elements that support the different aspects of the work; find at least three images that express each of the ideas below.  Be sure to identify three images for each idea. (Class work Grade)

Speaker rejected by women

Speaker attracted to feminine beauty

Speaker feeling unimportant, having no effect upon his environment

Speaker feeling misunderstood or reduced to lesser than he understands himself

Speaker’s indecision

Speaker’s sense of over self consciousness

C.     Answer questions 2, 3 and the Big Question (p 712)

Homework- 1. read e.e.  cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (p 781)

2. Answer questions 4-6 (p 782) and 3. explain the meaning of the poem with support from the poem itself. 

Prufrock First Half

1. First Half

The Essential Question-

What does the character (speaker) represent in his Society (Modernism)?  

How is this a love song?  What does a love song consist of?

Vocabulary-

Alienation: reluctance, companionship, self consciousness

Stanzas 1-6

The Footnote/Allusion

What does the footnote promise and why?

Allusion- Dante’s Inferno – what is the relevance?

Simile-line 3- explain and identify

Imagery-lines 4-8; what kinds of places are these? Why do they choose to visit them?

Speaker’s Instruction-overwhelming question in lines 10-12; why

Significance of Allusion-significance of Michelangelo, characterization of women

Stanza 3: Imagery– What does this suggest about our speaker and his view of the city?

Connection –how is this similar to Paul Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”- thematically?

Symbolism- in line 30, why “a plate”?  What does this suggest about the listener/ audience?

Speaker’s State of Mind  What happens before Tea?  What does this suggest about the speaker’s state of mind?

Repetition of Stanza 2-

What thematic connection can you make to explain the repetition?

Stanza 6: Speaker’s Characterization-

Explain the personality of the speaker, communicated in this stanza; use evidence to support your claim.

April 17- "Story of an Hour"

Read "Story of an Hour", beginning on page 628.  Summarize the events of the story, analyze the central idea of the story as a whole and identify the irony that contributes to the central idea.

Due by the end of the period- shared with me, as a google doc.

Macbeth Essay- last grade for the quarter

Make sure that you have written a critical essay in which you discuss William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth, from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided in the Critical Lens, from the last post.  

This should have been written into a Google doc. and shared with me by the end of class on April 15.

This is the last project grade for the quarter. If it is not shared with me, it is a zero in my gradebook.

If you were absent April 15, this is due by the end of the period on April 16.  Those of you that were present on April 15, this work is late.

Macbeth Essay

Read the task to plan and then write a critical lens essay.

Apply the quote to:

Macbeth

Task- Write a critical essay in which you discuss William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth, from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided in the Critical Lens.  In your essay, provide a valid interpretation of the statement, agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it, and support your opinion using at least two specific references to appropriate literary elements from Macbeth only.  Write this into a Google doc. and share it with me.

Critical Lens:

“Much, however, of what we call evil is really good in disguise …” 
—Sir John Lubbock The Pleasures of Life, 1887

Guidelines:

            Be sure to

• Provide a valid interpretation of the critical lens that clearly establishes the criteria for analysis
• Indicate whether you agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it
• Discuss only aspects of Macbeth by William Shakespeare that you believe best supports your opinion
• Use criteria suggested by the critical lens to analyze the work of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Avoid plot summary.  Instead, use specific references to appropriate literary elements (for example: theme, characterization, setting, point of view) to develop your analysis
• Organize your ideas in a unified and coherent manner
• Specify the titles and authors of the literature you choose
• Follow the conventions of standard written English

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