Today we finished all of Act 3 of "The Crucible." Some classes had already started Act 3. But we all are finishing it.
Keep up in your text by reviewing. Also, in your Crucible packet, there are questions over different acts. You should be all through Act 2, and after today, you should be through the questions over Act 3.
Do you want to start reviewing the book? I have a Jeopardy style review. We will do it some in class, but it would be good for you to do it numerous times on your own. If you can't get the powerpoint to work properly, download it and it should work. If you cannot do the questions quickly and correctly, you haven't done it enough times. Click here for character review.
If you want more review, Click here for a second review, this one over quotes from the story.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Tuesday & Wednesday; November 8 and November 9 Review Jeopardy
Today we finished all of Act 3 of "The Crucible." Some classes had already started Act 3. But we all are finishing it.
Keep up in your text by reviewing. Also, in your Crucible packet, there are questions over different acts. You should be all through Act 2, and after today, you should be through the questions over Act 3.
Do you want to start reviewing the book? I have a Jeopardy style review. We will do it some in class, but it would be good for you to do it numerous times on your own. If you can't get the powerpoint to work properly, download it and it should work.
If the answers show up when the slide changes, the downloading of it will help.
If you cannot do the questions quickly and correctly, you haven't done it enough times. Click here for character review.
If you want more review, Click here for a second review, this one over quotes from the story.
Keep up in your text by reviewing. Also, in your Crucible packet, there are questions over different acts. You should be all through Act 2, and after today, you should be through the questions over Act 3.
Do you want to start reviewing the book? I have a Jeopardy style review. We will do it some in class, but it would be good for you to do it numerous times on your own. If you can't get the powerpoint to work properly, download it and it should work.
If the answers show up when the slide changes, the downloading of it will help.
If you cannot do the questions quickly and correctly, you haven't done it enough times. Click here for character review.
If you want more review, Click here for a second review, this one over quotes from the story.
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Friday & Monday; November 4 & 7
The handout given in class can be reproduced by clicking on this link: Six method packet.
We went through the following ppt as an introduction to the six methods of characterization. To see this ppt, click here.
We started Act III of "The Crucible." Some classes we got through more than others. Period 2 did not get a chance to do the reading because of the overage from the Friday's Veterans' Day Assembly. It is suggested that you read through the first half of the chapter.
We took the quiz over vocab for the book.
We went through the following ppt as an introduction to the six methods of characterization. To see this ppt, click here.
We started Act III of "The Crucible." Some classes we got through more than others. Period 2 did not get a chance to do the reading because of the overage from the Friday's Veterans' Day Assembly. It is suggested that you read through the first half of the chapter.
We took the quiz over vocab for the book.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Wednesday & Thursday; November 2 & November 3
We assigned the following parts for the second part of Act 2. We started on page 62 of the small book, page 1241 of the classroom textbook, or the point where Hale enters the scene if you use a different text.
—Hale Ezekiel Cheever—Elizabeth Proctor Marshall
Herrick—John Proctor Francis
Nurse—Giles Corey Mary
Warren
Friday, Monday November 4th and 7th:
Test over vocab #2 next class (Friday or Monday). If you missed some of the words, go to the previous blog page and click on the appropriate spot.
Monday, October 31, 2016
Monday & Tuesday; October 31 & November 1
We took on ten new vocab words from the crucible. Click here to see the list. We will have a quiz over those vocab words on Friday, Monday (the 4th, the 7th). Quiz will be like the previous quiz.
We watched a prezi on background for the story. Click on the link below to see that prezi.
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Prezi on The Crucible, click here
We acted out the first half of Act II.
We watched a prezi on background for the story. Click on the link below to see that prezi.
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Prezi on The Crucible, click here
We acted out the first half of Act II.
—Elizabeth Proctor—
John Proctor—
Mary Warren——
Narrator 1—
Narrator 2
Up through page 62, page 1241We stopped when John Hale of Beverly arrives.
If you want a part for next class, preview the remainder of the scene.Thursday, October 27, 2016
Tuesday & Wednesday; October 25 & 26
We finally started the play "The Crucible." We made it through part of Act 1, to page 32, up to where there is a long expository section on Reverend John Hale of Beverly. Read through the long exposition, but we will not cover it again in class.
It was a good day of class for all sections, except period 5s interruption of the fire alarm. Great job of having fun acting out the parts.
If you want to be first to choose a part next class, read through the remainder of the first act. You will be given first choice over those who don't pre-read.
There are questions in your Crucible packet. As we move forward and finish Act One, use complete sentences to answer the questions in your packet.
On Thursday and Friday, we will have a quiz over the first ten vocab words from the Crucible. You should have filled out the page in your packet from information given in class. If you missed the information, or even some of it, look on a previous blog to click on a link to the ten words and their definitions. One period is given one more day before the quiz. because they did not get the words until Tuesday.
You will be able to use your packet when we take the quiz. You can not used typed sheets or images. Ask if you are not sure.
It was a good day of class for all sections, except period 5s interruption of the fire alarm. Great job of having fun acting out the parts.
If you want to be first to choose a part next class, read through the remainder of the first act. You will be given first choice over those who don't pre-read.
There are questions in your Crucible packet. As we move forward and finish Act One, use complete sentences to answer the questions in your packet.
On Thursday and Friday, we will have a quiz over the first ten vocab words from the Crucible. You should have filled out the page in your packet from information given in class. If you missed the information, or even some of it, look on a previous blog to click on a link to the ten words and their definitions. One period is given one more day before the quiz. because they did not get the words until Tuesday.
You will be able to use your packet when we take the quiz. You can not used typed sheets or images. Ask if you are not sure.
Monday, October 17, 2016
Wednesday & Monday; October 19 & 24
We picked up books "The Crucible" last class. We did a character study of the characters by doing a tea party.
Today we take a look the six expository sidebars of act one. We do this now so we don't slow down the pace of the play once we start.
We filled in information on the pages two and three of our packet.
Books, if you haven’t picked on up (Crucible)
Grade of 0 has been entered if your paper wasn’t in to turnitin.com
Page 3 Parris
Page 4 Putnam
Page 20 Proctor
Page 25 Rebecca
Page 32 Hale
Page 40 Giles
Next class we will have people read parts in Act One
It is understood that the students will review the expository elements of Act One, and that we will skip them when we start the play.
In our packets you can find some vocab words from the play. We filled out the word, the part of speech, the definition, and a sample sentence. Here is what was presented in class: vocab 1 Crucible Click Here.
Today we take a look the six expository sidebars of act one. We do this now so we don't slow down the pace of the play once we start.
We filled in information on the pages two and three of our packet.
Books, if you haven’t picked on up (Crucible)
Grade of 0 has been entered if your paper wasn’t in to turnitin.com
Page 3 Parris
Page 4 Putnam
Page 20 Proctor
Page 25 Rebecca
Page 32 Hale
Page 40 Giles
Next class we will have people read parts in Act One
It is understood that the students will review the expository elements of Act One, and that we will skip them when we start the play.
In our packets you can find some vocab words from the play. We filled out the word, the part of speech, the definition, and a sample sentence. Here is what was presented in class: vocab 1 Crucible Click Here.
Monday, Tuesday; October 17 & 18
1. John Proctor - A local farmer who lives just outside town; Elizabeth Proctor’s husband. A stern, harsh-tongued man, John hates hypocrisy. Nevertheless, he has a hidden sin—his affair with Abigail Williams. He hesitates to expose Abigail as a fraud because he worries that his secret will be revealed and his good name ruined. “I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
2. Abigail Williams - Reverend Parris’s niece. Abigail was once the servant for the Proctor household, but Elizabeth Proctor fired her after she discovered that Abigail was having an affair with her husband, John Proctor. Abigail is smart, wily, a good liar, and vindictive when crossed. “She is blackening my name in the village!”
3. Reverend John Hale - A young minister reputed to be an expert on witchcraft. He is called in to Salem to examine Parris’s daughter Betty. Hale is a committed Christian and hater of witchcraft. His critical mind and intelligence save him from falling into blind fervor. His arrival sets the hysteria in motion, although he later regrets his actions and attempts to save the lives of those accused. “What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him?”
4. Elizabeth Proctor - John Proctor’s wife. Elizabeth fired Abigail when she discovered that her husband was having an affair with Abigail. Elizabeth is supremely virtuous, but often cold. “The magistrate who sits in your heart judges you.”
5. Reverend Parris - The minister of Salem’s church. Reverend Parris is a paranoid, power-hungry, yet oddly self-pitying figure. Many of the townsfolk, especially John Proctor, dislike him, and Parris is very concerned with building his position in the community. “But if you have trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will and will ruin me with it.”
6. Rebecca Nurse - Francis Nurse’s wife. Rebecca is a wise, sensible, and upright woman, held in tremendous regard by most of the Salem community. However, she falls victim to the hysteria when the Putnams accuse her of witchcraft and she refuses to confess. “There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits.”
7. Francis Nurse - A wealthy, influential man in Salem. Nurse is well respected by most people in Salem, but is an enemy of Thomas Putnam and his wife.
8. Judge Danforth - The deputy governor of Massachusetts and the presiding judge at the witch trials. Honest and scrupulous, at least in his own mind, Danforth is convinced that he is doing right in rooting out witchcraft. “I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law.” “The pure in heart need no lawyers.”
9. Giles Corey - An elderly but feisty farmer in Salem, famous for his tendency to file lawsuits. Giles’s wife, Martha, is accused of witchcraft, and he himself is eventually held in contempt of court and pressed to death with large stones. His last words: “More weight.”
10. Thomas Putnam – Salem’s wealthy, influential citizen, he holds a grudge against Francis Nurse for preventing Putnam’s brother-in-law from being elected to the office of minister. He uses the witch trials to increase his own wealth, accusing people of witchcraft and then buying up their land.” I am one of nine sons. . . And yet I have but one child left of eight.”
11. Ann Putnam - Thomas Putnam’s wife. Ann Putnam has given birth to eight children, but only Ruth Putnam survived. The other seven died before they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means. “Reverend Parris, my husband and I have laid seven children in the earth.”
12. Ruth Putnam - The Putnam’s lone surviving child out of eight. Like Betty Parris, Ruth falls into a strange stupor after Reverend Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the woods. You might not find any lines for her in the play.
13. Tituba - Reverend Parris’s black slave from Barbados. At the night of dancing in the woods,Tituba agrees to perform voodoo at Abigail’s request. “He say Mr. Parris must be killed!”
14. Mary Warren - The servant in the Proctor household and a member of Abigail’s group of girls. She is a timid girl, easily influenced by those around her, who tried unsuccessfully to expose the hoax and ultimately recanted her confession. ” I cannot, they'll turn on me.”
15. Betty Parris - Reverend Parris’s ten-year-old daughter. Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. Her illness and that of Ruth Putnam fuel the first rumors of witchcraft. “You drank blood, Abby!”
16. Martha Corey -Giles Corey’s third wife. Martha’s reading habits lead to her arrest and conviction for witchcraft. “I, sir, am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is.”
17. Ezekiel Cheever - A man from Salem who acts as clerk of the court during the witch trials. He is upright and determined to do his duty for justice.” I think it be evidence, John. I am an official of the court, I cannot keep it.”
2. Abigail Williams - Reverend Parris’s niece. Abigail was once the servant for the Proctor household, but Elizabeth Proctor fired her after she discovered that Abigail was having an affair with her husband, John Proctor. Abigail is smart, wily, a good liar, and vindictive when crossed. “She is blackening my name in the village!”
3. Reverend John Hale - A young minister reputed to be an expert on witchcraft. He is called in to Salem to examine Parris’s daughter Betty. Hale is a committed Christian and hater of witchcraft. His critical mind and intelligence save him from falling into blind fervor. His arrival sets the hysteria in motion, although he later regrets his actions and attempts to save the lives of those accused. “What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him?”
4. Elizabeth Proctor - John Proctor’s wife. Elizabeth fired Abigail when she discovered that her husband was having an affair with Abigail. Elizabeth is supremely virtuous, but often cold. “The magistrate who sits in your heart judges you.”
5. Reverend Parris - The minister of Salem’s church. Reverend Parris is a paranoid, power-hungry, yet oddly self-pitying figure. Many of the townsfolk, especially John Proctor, dislike him, and Parris is very concerned with building his position in the community. “But if you have trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will and will ruin me with it.”
6. Rebecca Nurse - Francis Nurse’s wife. Rebecca is a wise, sensible, and upright woman, held in tremendous regard by most of the Salem community. However, she falls victim to the hysteria when the Putnams accuse her of witchcraft and she refuses to confess. “There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits.”
7. Francis Nurse - A wealthy, influential man in Salem. Nurse is well respected by most people in Salem, but is an enemy of Thomas Putnam and his wife.
8. Judge Danforth - The deputy governor of Massachusetts and the presiding judge at the witch trials. Honest and scrupulous, at least in his own mind, Danforth is convinced that he is doing right in rooting out witchcraft. “I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law.” “The pure in heart need no lawyers.”
9. Giles Corey - An elderly but feisty farmer in Salem, famous for his tendency to file lawsuits. Giles’s wife, Martha, is accused of witchcraft, and he himself is eventually held in contempt of court and pressed to death with large stones. His last words: “More weight.”
10. Thomas Putnam – Salem’s wealthy, influential citizen, he holds a grudge against Francis Nurse for preventing Putnam’s brother-in-law from being elected to the office of minister. He uses the witch trials to increase his own wealth, accusing people of witchcraft and then buying up their land.” I am one of nine sons. . . And yet I have but one child left of eight.”
11. Ann Putnam - Thomas Putnam’s wife. Ann Putnam has given birth to eight children, but only Ruth Putnam survived. The other seven died before they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means. “Reverend Parris, my husband and I have laid seven children in the earth.”
12. Ruth Putnam - The Putnam’s lone surviving child out of eight. Like Betty Parris, Ruth falls into a strange stupor after Reverend Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the woods. You might not find any lines for her in the play.
13. Tituba - Reverend Parris’s black slave from Barbados. At the night of dancing in the woods,Tituba agrees to perform voodoo at Abigail’s request. “He say Mr. Parris must be killed!”
14. Mary Warren - The servant in the Proctor household and a member of Abigail’s group of girls. She is a timid girl, easily influenced by those around her, who tried unsuccessfully to expose the hoax and ultimately recanted her confession. ” I cannot, they'll turn on me.”
15. Betty Parris - Reverend Parris’s ten-year-old daughter. Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. Her illness and that of Ruth Putnam fuel the first rumors of witchcraft. “You drank blood, Abby!”
16. Martha Corey -Giles Corey’s third wife. Martha’s reading habits lead to her arrest and conviction for witchcraft. “I, sir, am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is.”
17. Ezekiel Cheever - A man from Salem who acts as clerk of the court during the witch trials. He is upright and determined to do his duty for justice.” I think it be evidence, John. I am an official of the court, I cannot keep it.”
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Wednesday & Thursday; October 12 & October 13
Turnitin.com Previously We learned how to get to turnitin.com.
It is important to use the correct class code;
Go to turnitin.com and "add a class" if you already have an account. "Register" if you have not had an account.
Make sure you join the correct class.
Period Class ID Password
1__________________113720757 __________ Period1Rocks
2 __________________13720732 __________________ Period2Rocks
3. __________________13720745 __________________ Period3Rocks
5. __________________13720750 __________________ Period5Rocks
7 __________________ 13720752 __________________Period7Rocks
Counselor were here for forty-five minutes to talk about ACT tests, mentors, college choices, Naviance, and other important information.
We will class edit. You needed to bring your printed copy of your paper. The class edit powerpoint that I used can be found by Clicking Here.
Future important dates
Wed, Thur; Oct 12 & Oct 13 Rough draft Coming to America due in class so we can edit
Mon, Tues; Oct 17 & 18 Turnitin.com
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Thursday and Friday; October 6 & 7
Still have these to turn in? Equiano, Crevecouer, Six stations
Today we did the grammar packet. Page 5 run-on sentences. There will be a two grammar tests in the first semester. They will be open packet tests. Keep up and take notes in your packet.
Mr. O'Connor sent a survey to all student's school email. He wants the information for his Portland State class.
Research your Coming to America story. We spent most of class working on our Coming to America stories. Check the last four pages of your Coming to America packet for the rubric, a sample, and some general directions. Note the extension on the due dates:
Future important dates
Wed, Thur; Oct 12 & Oct 13 Rough draft Coming to America
Mon, Tues; Oct 17 & Oct 18 Turnitin.com
Today we did the grammar packet. Page 5 run-on sentences. There will be a two grammar tests in the first semester. They will be open packet tests. Keep up and take notes in your packet.
Mr. O'Connor sent a survey to all student's school email. He wants the information for his Portland State class.
Research your Coming to America story. We spent most of class working on our Coming to America stories. Check the last four pages of your Coming to America packet for the rubric, a sample, and some general directions. Note the extension on the due dates:
Future important dates
Wed, Thur; Oct 12 & Oct 13 Rough draft Coming to America
Mon, Tues; Oct 17 & Oct 18 Turnitin.com
Monday, October 3, 2016
Tuesday and Wednesday; October 4 & 5.
Remember to turn in Six stations
Any new remarks on American Made: The film?
Quotations Part A last class.
Quotations Part B this class.
We will go to turnitin.com next class, Thursday and Friday.
get an account, sign in to this class.
Watch this on your own. Regrets video (5:23)
Future important dates
NOTICE: THIS IS A CHANGE IN DUE DATE:
Wed, Thur; Oct 12 & Oct 13 Rough draft Coming to America
Mon, Tues; Oct 17 & Oct 18 Turnitin.com
IF YOU AN DO THIS ON YOUR OWN AT HOME, GO AHEAD. IF NOT, WE WILL DO IT IN CLASS ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY.
To join the turnitin class, you will need the following information There is a short free write assignment for you:
Period Class ID Password
1) 13720757 Period1Rocks
2) 13720732 Period2Rocks
3) 13720745 Period3Rocks
5) 13720750 Period5Rocks
7) 13720752 Period7Rocks
Make sure you join the correct class.
Any new remarks on American Made: The film?
Quotations Part A last class.
Quotations Part B this class.
We will go to turnitin.com next class, Thursday and Friday.
get an account, sign in to this class.
Watch this on your own. Regrets video (5:23)
Future important dates
NOTICE: THIS IS A CHANGE IN DUE DATE:
Wed, Thur; Oct 12 & Oct 13 Rough draft Coming to America
Mon, Tues; Oct 17 & Oct 18 Turnitin.com
IF YOU AN DO THIS ON YOUR OWN AT HOME, GO AHEAD. IF NOT, WE WILL DO IT IN CLASS ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY.
To join the turnitin class, you will need the following information There is a short free write assignment for you:
Period Class ID Password
1) 13720757 Period1Rocks
2) 13720732 Period2Rocks
3) 13720745 Period3Rocks
5) 13720750 Period5Rocks
7) 13720752 Period7Rocks
Make sure you join the correct class.
Friday, September 30, 2016
Friday and Monday; September 30 and October 3
Still have these to turn in? Equiano, Crevecouer
Discuss and turn in : Six stations
American Made: I can't show you this film except at school. As far as I know, there are no youtube videos that I can find. The film should answer these questions:
What stereotyping is addressed in the movie?
How did characters adapt to a different culture?
If I told you this was written within a few years of 9-11, what would you say is the message?
What are humorous events or words in the movie?
“You wouldn’t want to be stranded out here. Believe me, I know.” What does that mean literally and also in a larger sense?
When the father takes off his turban, who does he resemble? Why do you think the filmmakers did this?
Quotations on page 9 of your new packet, the grammar packet. We did the practice in class. Later in the quarter, there will be an open book test over what we cover in class. Therefore, it would be wise to make notes on your own packet.
Future important dates
Mon 10-Oct Rough draft due Coming to America
Wed 12-Oct Turnitin due Coming to America
Discuss and turn in : Six stations
American Made: I can't show you this film except at school. As far as I know, there are no youtube videos that I can find. The film should answer these questions:
What stereotyping is addressed in the movie?
How did characters adapt to a different culture?
If I told you this was written within a few years of 9-11, what would you say is the message?
What are humorous events or words in the movie?
“You wouldn’t want to be stranded out here. Believe me, I know.” What does that mean literally and also in a larger sense?
When the father takes off his turban, who does he resemble? Why do you think the filmmakers did this?
Quotations on page 9 of your new packet, the grammar packet. We did the practice in class. Later in the quarter, there will be an open book test over what we cover in class. Therefore, it would be wise to make notes on your own packet.
Future important dates
Mon 10-Oct Rough draft due Coming to America
Wed 12-Oct Turnitin due Coming to America
Friday, September 23, 2016
Friday & Tuesday; September 23 and 27 Wednesday & Thursday; September 28 and 29
Still have these to turn in?
Syllabus signature? Colossus paragraph? Freewrite? Blog comment?
Turn in Equiano. It is the first page of your packet. Make sure you name and period number is on it.
Turn in Crevecouer T= chart: You should have five points made, with good reason or evidence for your answer.
Six stations were done in class. The questions for the six stations should now be the front page of your packet. If you missed one of the two days, see me to pick up some packets.
Future important dates
Mon 10-Oct Rough draft due Coming to America
Wed 12-Oct Turnitin due Coming to America
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Still have these to turn in?
Syllabus signature? Colossus paragraph? Freewrite? Blog comment?
Finish Equiano. We did not hand this in yet. It will be turned in next class.
Crevecouer T= chart.
Make a T on your paper. On the left side, write 1783. On the right side write Today.
ON the left side, write what he says is true. On the right side, write if you agree and give evidence of some kind.
Future important dates
Friday (23rd)/ Tues (27)/ Equiano assignment hand in
Friday (23rd)/ Tues (27)/ Equiano answers due
Mon 10-Oct Rough draft due Coming to America
Wed 12-Oct Turnitin due Coming to America
Syllabus signature? Colossus paragraph? Freewrite? Blog comment?
Finish Equiano. We did not hand this in yet. It will be turned in next class.
Crevecouer T= chart.
Make a T on your paper. On the left side, write 1783. On the right side write Today.
ON the left side, write what he says is true. On the right side, write if you agree and give evidence of some kind.
Future important dates
Friday (23rd)/ Tues (27)/ Equiano assignment hand in
Friday (23rd)/ Tues (27)/ Equiano answers due
Mon 10-Oct Rough draft due Coming to America
Wed 12-Oct Turnitin due Coming to America
Monday, September 19, 2016
Syllabus: parent signatures. . . . Colossus paragraph: turned in
Freewrite over coming to America. Teacher check.
Newsroom excerpt: We watched and discussed
Equiano: first half of the packet: Write answers on the first page of your Coming to America packet.
America in 4:00: We watched the video (2 different versions). Your assignment is to go on the blog and have a meaning comment. A good way to do that is to select a phrase or sentence, and then make a claim about it. It would be best to explain why your evidence proves your point.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Thursday & Friday; Spetmeber 15 & September 16, 2016
Syllabus: parent signatures. This should really be in by now.
Where are you from? Watch this video and consider the details that demonstrate stereotyping. Be able to discuss what makes this humorous.
Magic Four on "The New Colossus"
Finish and hand in magic four today or by next class.
Origin of American Dream: where did the term come from?
Wickham, read and discuss. This is a true story of an immigrant's journey. After discussing, we assigned a free write about coming to America. This can be made up or factual. This is brainstorming activity. Don't stop and edit. "Write the first draft with your heart. The second draft write with your mind." Sean Connery in "Finding Forrester."
Wickham Pages 1 and 2
Wickham page 2
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Tuesday & Wednesday; September 13 & 14, 2016
Syllabus: parent signatures, If you haven't gotten your parent signatures in yet, get it done this week. I am ready to enter it as an assignment.
Lit terms: Metaphor, simile, personification. Fill the blank in your packet on the list of literary terms. The blanks should be filled with the following words: unlike, unlike, resembles, human
We watched the above video to have some fun with similes and metaphors.
Magic Four: In our Coming to America packet, we discussed and then read through pages 8 and 9. Each student needs to write their own sample Magic Four paragraph about the poem "The New Colossus." It is okay to use one of the claims from the packet. If students work together on this, they should not use the same claim. We spent thirty minutes writing a rough draft today. We included the MLA heading in our training. Next class, we will look at each other's papers to edit any errors. Then they will be turned in. These do not need to be typed, although that is always okay. This will be a 40 point assignment due next class. There will be some time to edit in class.
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Friday &Monday; September 9 & September 12, 2016
Syllabus: parent signatures: Full credit for this assignment if you get it in to me in the first two weeks. I did get those back from 70% of the class.
Literary terms for the day: Allusion, alliteration (Dragnet), rhyme, sonnet
These words are from your Coming to America packet. We will cover these words throughout the year. The list is divided into words you should already know and words you may not have been taught. The word "alliteration" is illustrated in the following video from the Johnny Carson Show from 1968,
These words are from your Coming to America packet. We will cover these words throughout the year. The list is divided into words you should already know and words you may not have been taught. The word "alliteration" is illustrated in the following video from the Johnny Carson Show from 1968,
Discussion of the poem “The New Colossus”: We re-watched the video from the previous class. We discussed the entire poem. Students brought information in to add to the discussion. This information could have been regarding the poem itself, the Statue of Liberty, or the Colossus.
The tone of the poem was discussed. Students talked about whether the poem was true at the time it was written, and also if it is true today.
Neil Diamond America
What is the tone of the Neil Diamond song. This song came from the movie "The Jazz Singer." This was a remake of the very first talkie movie ever made, in 1929.Wednesday, September 7, 2016
First Day of Class. Wednesday and Thursday, September 7 and September 8
Welcome!
-Topics for the first day included handing out the syllabus and work packet for "Coming to America." If you missed either of these please see Mr. O'Connor for copies.
-Look up information about The Statue of Liberty, The Colossus of Rhodes, Emma Lazurus or anything about those who came to America from other countries. Be prepared to share that info in class or on the blog.
Only a few extra credit opportunities are given each year. During the Coming to America unit, memorize and recite "The New Colossus" poem, either to the class or to the teacher. One extra credit point will be awarded for each line recited correctly. Bonus points might be awarded for reciting the entire poem to the class, particularly with some flair.
-Topics for the first day included handing out the syllabus and work packet for "Coming to America." If you missed either of these please see Mr. O'Connor for copies.
-Look up information about The Statue of Liberty, The Colossus of Rhodes, Emma Lazurus or anything about those who came to America from other countries. Be prepared to share that info in class or on the blog.
Only a few extra credit opportunities are given each year. During the Coming to America unit, memorize and recite "The New Colossus" poem, either to the class or to the teacher. One extra credit point will be awarded for each line recited correctly. Bonus points might be awarded for reciting the entire poem to the class, particularly with some flair.
Wednesday/Thursday early information.
It was good to meet many of you for the first time today. To those on thursday(per 5/7, my name is Mr. O'Connor and I am a student teacher in Mr. Dessert's American Lit classes. I will be around the next few weeks quite a bit, then now and then for a month or so and return towards the end of november more consistently. Please feel free to email me with any questions regarding class activities, notes and assignments. I will also provide feedback on papers and any other written assignments(as quickly as I am able to). I will also be in our room most mornings before school if you need more assistance.
Thank you again,
Mr. O'Connor
spo@pdx.edu
Thank you again,
Mr. O'Connor
spo@pdx.edu
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Tuesday, Wednesday; May 31 and June 1
We learned today that we have two new assignments due before the end of the school year. Both of them have opportunity for extra credit.
Assignment number one: The poem "O Captain, my Captain." Before the end of the school year, the assignment is to memorize four lines of the poem. Perfect memorization of four lines will give you ten points out of ten points. 'additional complete lines can earn a point a piece. There might be other points available for creativity or performance. Maximum bonus points might be around 17.
Here is the poem:
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Want some help learning it:
The second assignment came from Langston Hughes poem "The Weary Blues,"
After discussing the poem, the assignment was given to write at least four lines of a blues poem. The guidelines include using an aaba or abab rhyme scheme, use a creative title, choose a bluesy name for your singer, and be creative. If you connect to some character we have discussed this year, that would be better. For fun, students were given these directions for writing a blues poem:
HOW TO SING THE BLUES
by Lame Mango Washington
(attributed to Memphis Earlene Gray with help from Uncle Plunky, revisions by Little Blind Patti D. and Dr. Stevie Franklin)
1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning."
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like " I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."
3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a good woman - with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher - and she weigh 500 pound."
4. The Blues are not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch; ain't no way out.
5. Blues cars: Chevys and Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.
6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, " adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in St. Paul or Tucson is just depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cuz you skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg cuz an alligator be chomping on it is.
9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass
Bad places:
a. Ashrams
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses
11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old ethnic person, and you slept in it.
12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:
a. you're older than dirt
b. you're blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied
No, if:
a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived.
d. you have a retirement plan or trust fund.
13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Gary Coleman could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.
2010 update : Tiger can nowadays sing the blues.
You know like this:
I got a good woman,
but she beats me with iron seven
Im f$^%ing everything whats moving
and I will not go to heaven.
and then some rhymes about stress - mistress etc. :)
14. If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it's the Blues.
Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. black coffee
The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. mixed drinks
b. kosher wine
c. Snapple
d. sparkling water
15. If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or getting liposuction.
16. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling
17. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie
18. Persons with names like Sierra, Sequoia, Auburn, and Rainbow can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.
19. Make your own Blues name (starter kit):
a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi,etc.)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.)
For example, Blind Lime Jefferson, or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc.
(Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")
20. I don't care how tragic your life: you own a computer, you cannot sing the blues. You best destroy it. Fire, a spilled bottle of Mad Dog, or get out a shotgun. I don't care.
back to aNaLoG.MaN
The following is an example of a song written with the use of these rules. It was written by Jerry Dunlap:
Assignment number one: The poem "O Captain, my Captain." Before the end of the school year, the assignment is to memorize four lines of the poem. Perfect memorization of four lines will give you ten points out of ten points. 'additional complete lines can earn a point a piece. There might be other points available for creativity or performance. Maximum bonus points might be around 17.
Here is the poem:
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Want some help learning it:
The second assignment came from Langston Hughes poem "The Weary Blues,"
After discussing the poem, the assignment was given to write at least four lines of a blues poem. The guidelines include using an aaba or abab rhyme scheme, use a creative title, choose a bluesy name for your singer, and be creative. If you connect to some character we have discussed this year, that would be better. For fun, students were given these directions for writing a blues poem:
HOW TO SING THE BLUES
by Lame Mango Washington
(attributed to Memphis Earlene Gray with help from Uncle Plunky, revisions by Little Blind Patti D. and Dr. Stevie Franklin)
1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning."
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like " I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."
3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a good woman - with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher - and she weigh 500 pound."
4. The Blues are not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch; ain't no way out.
5. Blues cars: Chevys and Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.
6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, " adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in St. Paul or Tucson is just depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cuz you skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg cuz an alligator be chomping on it is.
9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass
Bad places:
a. Ashrams
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses
11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old ethnic person, and you slept in it.
12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:
a. you're older than dirt
b. you're blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied
No, if:
a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived.
d. you have a retirement plan or trust fund.
13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Gary Coleman could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.
2010 update : Tiger can nowadays sing the blues.
You know like this:
I got a good woman,
but she beats me with iron seven
Im f$^%ing everything whats moving
and I will not go to heaven.
and then some rhymes about stress - mistress etc. :)
14. If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it's the Blues.
Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. black coffee
The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. mixed drinks
b. kosher wine
c. Snapple
d. sparkling water
15. If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or getting liposuction.
16. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling
17. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie
18. Persons with names like Sierra, Sequoia, Auburn, and Rainbow can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.
19. Make your own Blues name (starter kit):
a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi,etc.)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.)
For example, Blind Lime Jefferson, or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc.
(Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")
20. I don't care how tragic your life: you own a computer, you cannot sing the blues. You best destroy it. Fire, a spilled bottle of Mad Dog, or get out a shotgun. I don't care.
back to aNaLoG.MaN
The following is an example of a song written with the use of these rules. It was written by Jerry Dunlap:
Friday, May 27, 2016
Monday, May 23, 2016
Friday and Monday; May 20 and May 23
Review for the Raisin in the Sun final on Thursday and Friday: May 26 and 27.
We finished the movie Raisin in the Sun. Five question sheets turned in for the play.
We finished the movie Raisin in the Sun. Five question sheets turned in for the play.
Friday, May 13, 2016
Thursday B day; Friday A Day; May 12 and 13
This video is not great quality. Feel free to watch from some other source, or see teacher and watch after school, before school, during lunch, or maybe try netflix.
We watched Act 1 scene 2. Questions about the play are being completed for each scene. These are graded. Keep character charts.
Name___________________¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬____________ Period____________
Questions: A Raisin in the Sun (Act 1, Scene 2)
1. Who does Beneatha invite to the apartment? How does she tell Mama to act around this person?
2. What does Asagai say and do to encourage Beneatha's search for her identity?
3. Soon after Asagai leaves, the mail carrier delivers the insurance check. Why does Mama's expression become sober and then unhappy when she holds the check?
4. Walter rushes in demanding to know whether the check has arrived. How does he show his insensitivity to the situation at home?
5. After learning that Ruth was considering an abortion, Mama tells Walter, “I’m waiting to hear how you be your father’s son.” What is she trying to tell him, and how does it relate to what we know about Big Walter’s view of the family?
Use the following character blurbs to fill out a character worksheet grid:
Walter Lee Younger - The protagonist of the play. Walter is a dreamer. He wants to be rich and devises plans to acquire wealth with his friends, particularly Willy Harris. When the play opens, he wants to invest his father’s insurance money in a new liquor store venture. He spends the rest of the play endlessly preoccupied with discovering a quick solution to his family’s various problems. He does not seem to understand that he must pay attention to his family members’ concerns in order to help them. In his middle thirties, he is the husband of Ruth, father of Travis, brother of Beneatha, and son of Lena (Mama) Younger. Walter works as a chauffeur and drinks a bit too much at times. When he discovers that his mother will receive a $10,000 check from his father's insurance, he becomes obsessed with his dreams of a business venture which will give him financial independence and, in his mind, will make him a more valuable human being.
Beneatha Younger (“Bennie”) - The twentyish sister of Walter Lee and the daughter of Lena Younger. She is a college student planning to go to medical school. The only family member privileged to have the opportunity for a higher education, she is sometimes a little overbearing in the pride she takes in being an "intellectual.". Twenty years old, she attends college and is better educated than the rest of the Younger family. Some of her personal beliefs and views have distanced her from conservative Mama. She dreams of being a doctor and struggles to determine her identity as a well-educated black woman. She is at her happiest with Asagai, her Nigerian boyfriend, who has nicknamed her “Alaiyo,” which means “One for Whom Bread—Food—Is Not Enough.” She is at her most depressed and angry with George, her pompous, affluent African-American boyfriend. She identifies much more with Asagai’s interest in rediscovering his African roots than with George’s interest in assimilating into white culture.
Lena Younger (“Mama”) - Walter and Beneatha’s mother. The matriarch of the family, Mama is religious, moral, and maternal. She wants to use her husband’s insurance money as a down payment on a house with a backyard to fulfill her dream for her family to move up in the world. Money is only a means to an end for Mama; dreams are more important to her than material wealth, and her dream is to own a house with a garden and yard in which Travis can play.
Ruth Younger - Walter’s wife and Travis’s mother. Ruth takes care of the Youngers’ small apartment. Her marriage to Walter has problems, but she hopes to rekindle their love. She is about thirty, but her weariness makes her seem older. Constantly fighting poverty and domestic troubles, she continues to be an emotionally strong woman. Her almost pessimistic pragmatism helps her to survive. The thirtyish wife of Walter Lee Younger and the mother of Travis, their ten-year-old son. Ruth acts as peacemaker in most of the explosive family situations. Very low-key, Ruth reveals her strongest emotions only when she learns of the possibility of their moving to a better neighborhood.
Travis Younger - The ten-year-old son of Walter and Ruth Younger. Living in a household with three generations in conflict, Travis skillfully plays each adult against the other and is, as a result, somewhat "spoiled." In spite of this, he is a likeable child.. Travis earns some money by carrying grocery bags and likes to play outside with other neighborhood children, but he has no bedroom and sleeps on the living-room sofa.
Joseph Asagai - A Nigerian student in love with Beneatha (Bennie). Asagai, as he is often called, is very proud of his African heritage, and Beneatha hopes to learn about her African heritage from him. He eventually proposes marriage to Beneatha and hopes she will return to Nigeria with him. Mannerly, good looking, and personable, he is well liked by all members of the Younger household.
George Murchison - A wealthy, African-American man who courts Beneatha. The Youngers approve of George, but Beneatha dislikes his willingness to submit to white culture and forget his African heritage. He challenges the thoughts and feelings of other black people through his arrogance and flair for intellectual competition. Beneatha's other boyfriend, he too is a college student. His wealthy background alienates him from the poverty of the Youngers. Easily impressed, Ruth is the only member of the Younger household who naively overlooks George's offensive snobbishness
Mr. Karl Lindner - The only white character in the play. Mr. Lindner arrives at the Youngers’ apartment from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. A weak and ineffectual middle-aged white man, Lindner is the spokesman for the white community into which the Youngers plan to move. He has been sent to persuade the Youngers not to move into the white neighborhood. In fact, he has been authorized by the white community to offer the Youngers a monetary incentive not to move in.
Bobo - The somewhat dimwitted friend of Walter Lee who, along with another friend, Willy, plans to invest in Walter Lee's business scheme.. Bobo appears to be as mentally slow as his name indicates.
Willy Harris - The unscrupulous "friend" of Walter Lee and Bobo who absconds with all the money for the prospective business venture. Although the audience never meets him, Willy's character is assessed through the dialogue of others. Since Willy never appears onstage, which helps keep the focus of the story on the dynamics of the Younger family.
Mrs. Johnson - Brash and abrasive neighbor of the Youngers, she insensitively points out to the Youngers all the negative repercussions that await them should they decide to move into the white neighborhood.
Monday, May 9, 2016
Raisin in the Sun text
To get a pdf of the text of the play, click here
Assignment: Pre-read scenes that we are going to watch in class.
Tuesday, Wednesday.5/10 and 5/11...Tea party...1.1 pages 3-26
Thursday, Friday...5/12/and 5/13 ...............1.2 pages 27-43........:30
Monday, Tuesday....5/16 and 5/17................2.1 pages 45-59........:27
Wednesday Thursday.5/18 and 5/19............... 2.2 pages 60-70........:20
Friday Monday......5/20 and 5/23 ...............2.3 pages 71-86........:25
Tuesday Wednesday..5/24 and 5/25 ...............3.1 pages 87-102.......:39
Assignment: Pre-read scenes that we are going to watch in class.
Tuesday, Wednesday.5/10 and 5/11...Tea party...1.1 pages 3-26
Thursday, Friday...5/12/and 5/13 ...............1.2 pages 27-43........:30
Monday, Tuesday....5/16 and 5/17................2.1 pages 45-59........:27
Wednesday Thursday.5/18 and 5/19............... 2.2 pages 60-70........:20
Friday Monday......5/20 and 5/23 ...............2.3 pages 71-86........:25
Tuesday Wednesday..5/24 and 5/25 ...............3.1 pages 87-102.......:39
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Friday and Monday; May 6 and May 9
If you missed class due to testing or other reasons, you need to do the following on your own.
A Dream Deferred Read and analyze
Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Watch the following video. Explain how the author's background affected the plot and the setting of this story.
A Dream Deferred Read and analyze
Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Watch the following video. Explain how the author's background affected the plot and the setting of this story.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
We have finished testing over The Great Gatsby. We have been begun the state Smarter Balance test. It will take place over two or three class periods. There are two parts. The A Day classes will not test on Friday, April 28. They will resume on Tuesday.
On Friday for the A day classes, we will introduce the choice reading assignment and the characters from our new play, "Raisin in the Sun." Yea for character tea parties.
The handout for the choice reading is copied here. Some classes may not get it in class until the following week. But now you can get a head start.
American Lit. Choice Book—50 points+ 50 points Student name __________ period ___
Requirements:
1. Read at least one book written by an American author listed on the back of this sheet.
2. You may need more than one book. Maybe a second book by the same author? See pages= grades chart lower in this blog.
3. It cannot be a book that you have read previously, or been assigned to have read before.
4. Have at least one classmate as a partner who is reading the same book.
5. Pick a book that potentially answers one of these questions:
• How is this a book about the American Dream?
• How is this a book about what it means to be an American?
• How does this book fit into the traditions of American Literature?
• How does this book compare in terms of characters, conflicts, or ideas to another book from this year?
6. Complete reading of your book by______________________.
Choice Reading project ideas
It is expected that you will be able to pass a test on any book you read. These would just be general comprehension questions
The grades for choice reading will be based on the number of pages + effort put on your project. Sample ideas:
Letter to the author- Teacher needs to see this before it is sent.
Acting out a scene- This could incorporate more than one person’s project, or on video
Artwork- Include some writing to explain or explore the artwork.
Movie trailer- design and act out in class, or film. Maybe upload to youtube.
Poster- This should not be just a bunch of pictures. Arrange and explain the reason for the arrangement in a paragraph or two.
True color essay- Pick three colors and three shapes to explain the character. Write a paper explaining each choice.
Contrast the movie, if there is one, with the book in essay format.
Write a poem, or a series of poems, dealing with the focus of the book.
Due date juniors: Thursday or Friday, June 9 or 10.
You a senior? Due date Wednesday or Thursday, June 1 or 2
+450 pages = possible 45-50 +350 pages = possible 40-45
+250 pages = possible 35-40 +150 pages = possible 30-35
FICTION TITLES AUTHOR plus Pages
1. Flight Alexie (200)
2. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Alexie (235)
3. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez (336)
4. Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury (175)
5. Tortilla Curtain Boyle (355)
6. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Dorris (375)
7. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Durrow (272)
8. All The Pretty Horses McCarthy (300)
9. A Lesson Before Dying*** Gaines (256)
10. Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson (460)
11. Their Eyes Were Watching God*** Hurston (200)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*** Kesey (320)
13. The Secret Life of Bees*** Kidd (300)
14. Shoeless Joe*** Kinsella (265)
15. A River Runs Through It plus other stories Maclean (100 or 215)
16. Locas Murray (250)
17. 1984 Orwell (250)
18. Fight Club Palahnuik (210)
19. The Catcher in the Rye*** Salinger (250)
20. The Laughing Sutra Salzman (272)
21. The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck (464)
22. The Joy Luck Club*** Tan (410)
23. Pudd’nhead Wilson Twain (340)
24. Into the Beautiful North Urrea (340)
25. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Vonnegut (220)
26. The Color Purple*** Walker (260)
27. Native Son Wright (544)
DRAMA TITLES AUTHOR’S LAST NAME
28. You Can’t Take It With You Hart and Kaufman ( 72)
29. Death of a Salesman Miller (135)
30. Clybourne Park Norris ( 88)
NONFICTION TITLES AUTHOR’S LAST NAME
31. Into the Wild Krakauer (225)
32. Nickeled and Dimed Ehrenreich (225)
33. Fast Food Nation Schlosser (384)
34. Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders... Watson (448)
35. The Devil’s Highway Urrea (272)
BIOGRAPHY/ MEMOIR TITLES AUTHOR’S LAST NAME
36. Farewell to Manzanar Houston (175)
37. A Girl Named Zippy Kimmel (275)
38. ‘Tis McCourt (600)
39. The Other Wes Moore Moore (250)
40. Wise Guys Pileggi (400)
41. Lost in Place*** Salzman (225)
42. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Skloot (381)
43. This Boy’s Life*** Wolff (300)
On Friday for the A day classes, we will introduce the choice reading assignment and the characters from our new play, "Raisin in the Sun." Yea for character tea parties.
The handout for the choice reading is copied here. Some classes may not get it in class until the following week. But now you can get a head start.
American Lit. Choice Book—50 points+ 50 points Student name __________ period ___
Requirements:
1. Read at least one book written by an American author listed on the back of this sheet.
2. You may need more than one book. Maybe a second book by the same author? See pages= grades chart lower in this blog.
3. It cannot be a book that you have read previously, or been assigned to have read before.
4. Have at least one classmate as a partner who is reading the same book.
5. Pick a book that potentially answers one of these questions:
• How is this a book about the American Dream?
• How is this a book about what it means to be an American?
• How does this book fit into the traditions of American Literature?
• How does this book compare in terms of characters, conflicts, or ideas to another book from this year?
6. Complete reading of your book by______________________.
Choice Reading project ideas
It is expected that you will be able to pass a test on any book you read. These would just be general comprehension questions
The grades for choice reading will be based on the number of pages + effort put on your project. Sample ideas:
Letter to the author- Teacher needs to see this before it is sent.
Acting out a scene- This could incorporate more than one person’s project, or on video
Artwork- Include some writing to explain or explore the artwork.
Movie trailer- design and act out in class, or film. Maybe upload to youtube.
Poster- This should not be just a bunch of pictures. Arrange and explain the reason for the arrangement in a paragraph or two.
True color essay- Pick three colors and three shapes to explain the character. Write a paper explaining each choice.
Contrast the movie, if there is one, with the book in essay format.
Write a poem, or a series of poems, dealing with the focus of the book.
Due date juniors: Thursday or Friday, June 9 or 10.
You a senior? Due date Wednesday or Thursday, June 1 or 2
+450 pages = possible 45-50 +350 pages = possible 40-45
+250 pages = possible 35-40 +150 pages = possible 30-35
FICTION TITLES AUTHOR plus Pages
1. Flight Alexie (200)
2. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Alexie (235)
3. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez (336)
4. Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury (175)
5. Tortilla Curtain Boyle (355)
6. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Dorris (375)
7. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Durrow (272)
8. All The Pretty Horses McCarthy (300)
9. A Lesson Before Dying*** Gaines (256)
10. Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson (460)
11. Their Eyes Were Watching God*** Hurston (200)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*** Kesey (320)
13. The Secret Life of Bees*** Kidd (300)
14. Shoeless Joe*** Kinsella (265)
15. A River Runs Through It plus other stories Maclean (100 or 215)
16. Locas Murray (250)
17. 1984 Orwell (250)
18. Fight Club Palahnuik (210)
19. The Catcher in the Rye*** Salinger (250)
20. The Laughing Sutra Salzman (272)
21. The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck (464)
22. The Joy Luck Club*** Tan (410)
23. Pudd’nhead Wilson Twain (340)
24. Into the Beautiful North Urrea (340)
25. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Vonnegut (220)
26. The Color Purple*** Walker (260)
27. Native Son Wright (544)
DRAMA TITLES AUTHOR’S LAST NAME
28. You Can’t Take It With You Hart and Kaufman ( 72)
29. Death of a Salesman Miller (135)
30. Clybourne Park Norris ( 88)
NONFICTION TITLES AUTHOR’S LAST NAME
31. Into the Wild Krakauer (225)
32. Nickeled and Dimed Ehrenreich (225)
33. Fast Food Nation Schlosser (384)
34. Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders... Watson (448)
35. The Devil’s Highway Urrea (272)
BIOGRAPHY/ MEMOIR TITLES AUTHOR’S LAST NAME
36. Farewell to Manzanar Houston (175)
37. A Girl Named Zippy Kimmel (275)
38. ‘Tis McCourt (600)
39. The Other Wes Moore Moore (250)
40. Wise Guys Pileggi (400)
41. Lost in Place*** Salzman (225)
42. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Skloot (381)
43. This Boy’s Life*** Wolff (300)
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Monday and Wednesday; April 18 and 20
We read the final chapter (9) of Gatsby. Did you know it was going to end that way? Wow!
We started the video, starring Leonardo DeCaprio. We saw about 25 minutes of it. We will finish mostly with the movie.
Want to review? Play Gatsby Jeopardy Review #1 by clicking here.
Want to review more? You asked for it: Play Gatsby Jeopardy Review #2 by clicking here.
If you scrolled down the page to see this, I assume your parents have okayed you to watch thugnotes. If they would not like you watching it, go back and do another Jeopardy Review.
Can't get enough of that THUGNOTES? I am not showing this in class. Thug dude does some excellent analysis, but his language is definitely street language. Don't watch it if you don't want to hear it.
We started the video, starring Leonardo DeCaprio. We saw about 25 minutes of it. We will finish mostly with the movie.
Want to review? Play Gatsby Jeopardy Review #1 by clicking here.
Want to review more? You asked for it: Play Gatsby Jeopardy Review #2 by clicking here.
If you scrolled down the page to see this, I assume your parents have okayed you to watch thugnotes. If they would not like you watching it, go back and do another Jeopardy Review.
Can't get enough of that THUGNOTES? I am not showing this in class. Thug dude does some excellent analysis, but his language is definitely street language. Don't watch it if you don't want to hear it.
Monday, April 4, 2016
Tuesday and Wednesday; April 5 and April 6
Upcoming events:
Fri/ Mon April 1 and April 4: Chapter 6: hand out "Hollow Men" for homework.
Tues/ Wed, April 5 and April 6: First half of Chapter 7, "Hollow Men" and symbolism
Thurs/ Fri, April 7 and April 8: ACT registration plus symbolism
Mon/ Tues, April 11 and April 12: Chapter 7, Color symbolism, weather symbolism
Wed/ Thurs, April 13 and April 14: Chapter 8, Twenty minutes of video of "The Great Gatsby."
Note: April 19 is the ACT and other activity day.
Mon/ Wed, April 18 and April 20: Chapter 9, Twenty minutes of video of "The Great Gatsby."
Thurs/ Fri, April 21 and April 22: Finish video and review for the test. All test questions refer to the book, not movie.
Mon/ Tues, April 25 and 26: Test over Gatsby
Wed/ Thurs/ Fri/ Mon/ Tues/ Wed: April 27/28/29 / May 2 /3 are all Smarter Balance testing day.
Thurs/ Fri: May 5 and May 6: Richard Corey, Dream Deferred, Character Tea Party for "Raisin in the Sun."
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Friday & Monday; March 18 & March 29
We read chapter 4 after taking the normal quiz over the previous chapter.
Next class we will have the grammar open note test.
Wed/ Thurs March 30 and 31: Chapter 5 and Grammar Test, open notes.
Fri/ Mon April 1 and April 4: Chapter 6: hand out "Hollow Men" for homework.
Tues/ Wed, April 5 and April 6: First half of Chapter 7, "Hollow Men" and symbolism
Thurs/ Fri, April 7 and April 8: Second half of Chapter 7, Color symbolism, weather symbolism
Mon/ Tues, April 11 and April 12: Chapter 8, Twenty minutes of video of "The Great Gatsby."
Wed/ Thurs, April 13 and April 14: Chapter 9, Twenty minutes of video of "The Great Gatsby."
Note: April 19 is the ACT and other activity day.
Mon/ Wed, April 18 and April 20: Finish video and review for the test. All test questions refer to the book, not movie.
Thurs/ Fri, April 21 and April 22: Test over Gatsby
Mon/ Tues, April 25 and 26: Poems "Richard Cory"/ "Dream Deferred"/ and Tea Party for "Raisin in the Sun."
Wed/ Thurs/ Fri/ Mon/ Tues: April 27/28/29 and May 2 are all Smarter Balance testing day.
Next class we will have the grammar open note test.
Wed/ Thurs March 30 and 31: Chapter 5 and Grammar Test, open notes.
Fri/ Mon April 1 and April 4: Chapter 6: hand out "Hollow Men" for homework.
Tues/ Wed, April 5 and April 6: First half of Chapter 7, "Hollow Men" and symbolism
Thurs/ Fri, April 7 and April 8: Second half of Chapter 7, Color symbolism, weather symbolism
Mon/ Tues, April 11 and April 12: Chapter 8, Twenty minutes of video of "The Great Gatsby."
Wed/ Thurs, April 13 and April 14: Chapter 9, Twenty minutes of video of "The Great Gatsby."
Note: April 19 is the ACT and other activity day.
Mon/ Wed, April 18 and April 20: Finish video and review for the test. All test questions refer to the book, not movie.
Thurs/ Fri, April 21 and April 22: Test over Gatsby
Mon/ Tues, April 25 and 26: Poems "Richard Cory"/ "Dream Deferred"/ and Tea Party for "Raisin in the Sun."
Wed/ Thurs/ Fri/ Mon/ Tues: April 27/28/29 and May 2 are all Smarter Balance testing day.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Wednesday and Thursday; March 16 and 17
Read Chapter 3 from Gatsby. We have taken a quiz over each chapter. If you want to redo the quiz or if you missed the class, do a magic four paragraph over some aspect of the chapter. If you do a summary of the chapter, it will probably not be scored. Make a claim about a character or action to start your paragraph. You will not be eligible for a full ten points on a redo of a test.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Thursday & Friday; March 9 & 10
We started chapter one of Gatsby. Most students checked out books. A book must be used in class, so use one of our classroom copies if you don't have one. Classroom copies cannot leave the room.
Most classes finished chapter one. If you did not finish, you need to finish at home. My suggestion is that you read the chapter a second time. There will be a quiz over chapter one next class.
Don't have a book at home? Try ebooks
Most classes finished chapter one. If you did not finish, you need to finish at home. My suggestion is that you read the chapter a second time. There will be a quiz over chapter one next class.
Don't have a book at home? Try ebooks
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Tuesday and Wednesday; March 8 and March 9
Gatsby character party.
Gatsby Prezi, click here
If you were not here for the character tea party, these are the blurbs about each of eleven people involved in the story. Take notes about them:
Gatsby Prezi, click here
If you were not here for the character tea party, these are the blurbs about each of eleven people involved in the story. Take notes about them:
1. I am Nick Carraway, a quiet
Midwesterner adrift in the corruption of eastern seaboard wealth. I am the
narrator of the book, a cousin of Daisy Buchanan, and a former member of Tom
Buchanan’s social club at Yale. I met Gatsby when I moved in next to him, and I
became his only real friend after a series of strange events. I have a romantic
interest in golf pro Jordan Baker, but I am repelled by her dishonesty and her
lack of consideration for others. I eventually decide to settle in Minnesota,
where the moral structure is stronger.
2. I am Jay Gatsby. I’m thirty years
old, and I rose from an impoverished childhood in North Dakota to become
fabulously wealthy. I don’t admit to my childhood. As a poor, young military
officer, I met Daisy Buchanan before leaving to fight in WWI. Daisy said that
she would wait for me, but she didn’t. She
did not know about my poverty, and I pursued wealth in order to win her back. After
gaining my fortune, I changed my name from James Gatz, and everything I do is
with an eye to win Daisy back. Others do not really know how I got my money,
and some think it was due to criminal activity. Regardless, they attend my
parties anyway. I am not usually seen at my lavish parties until Nick arrives
in town.
3. I am Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway is
my cousin. I fell in love with Gatsby right before he left to serve in WWI. I
believed that he was wealthy, and promised that I would wait for him to return.
I got tired of waiting, though, and married Tom Buchanan, who is “old money”
from East Egg, an area with homes occupied by generationally rich
families. I am beautiful, charming,
fickle, shallow, and easily bored. People tell me my character is partially
based on Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda, because we both love money, ease, and
material luxury.
4. I am Tom Buchanan. I was once a
member of Nick Carraway’s social club at Yale. I am arrogant, athletic, and
hypocritical. Although I am married to Daisy, I am having an affair with
Myrtle, the sexy, uneducated wife of Tom Wilson, who is my mechanic. I tend to
become a little outraged at the thought of my wife looking at other men.
5. I am Jordan Baker. I’m Daisy’s friend
and Nick’s love interest. I am a competitive golfer, and cheated to win my
first tournament. I am known to be cynical, boyish, outgoing, and
self-centered. I have no problem bending the truth.
6. I am Myrtle Wilson. My husband is
George, who owns a garage in the Valley of the Ashes where he sometimes works
on Gatsby’s cars. Although I am married, Tom Buchanan is my lover. I am
fiercely determined to improve my life, and I want it to include Tom, not
George. I often visit my sister to create a way to meet up with Tom.
7. I am George Wilson. I am married to
Myrtle, and I own a garage in the Valley of the Ashes. Sometimes I work on
Gatsby’s cars. I am devoted to Myrtle, but she doesn’t seem to notice it,
perhaps because I am not going to move up the social ladder. I’m not sure, but
I suspect that she might be having an affair.
8.
I
am Klipspringer. Some think I am a shallow freeloader who seems almost to live
at Gatsby’s mansion and takes advantage of his money. After Gatsby dies, I
disappear. I do not even attend the funeral, although I do call Nick about a
pair of tennis shoes that I left at Gatsby’s mansion. People think that there
are some parallels between me and a young James Gatz.
9. I am Meyer Wolfsheim, Gatsby’s
friend. I have connections to organized crime, and helped Gatsby make his
fortune bootlegging illegal liquor. I am an inhabitant of New York’s seedy
underworld and a dead ringer for real-life Arnold Rothstein, who fixed the 1919
World Series. That I am still acquainted with Gatsby suggests to some that
Gatsby is still involved in illegal business.
10. I am the Owl-Eyed Man, the eccentric,
bespectacled drunk who Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby’s
mansion. Nick finds me looking through
Gatsby’s library, astonished that the books are real. Some see me as being
similar to the billboard for Dr. T.J. Eckleburg with the “all-seeing” eyes, as
we symbolize an uninvolved, spectator god.
11. I am Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
(September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), an American novelist and short story
writer whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. I was widely
regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century
and considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. I wrote four
novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender is the Night (a fifth, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was
published posthumously). I also wrote numerous short stories, many of which
treat themes of youth and promise, and age and despair. My wife is Zelda, a
beautiful Alabama socialite who, when were engaged, broke off the engagement
when it did not appear that I could support her to her style. She resumed the
engagement when my first book, This Side
of Paradise, made me wealthy.
Wednesday and Thursday: March 2 and March 3
On-Demand writing from Huck Finn turned into Turnitin.com
Practice the two jeopardy reviews for next class's test over Huck Finn.
Practice the two jeopardy reviews for next class's test over Huck Finn.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Monday and Tuesday; March 2 and March 3
Reviewed for the scantron test by clicking on the ppts that are listed on the previous blog.
We also chose our passage that we will be using on our on-demand test. Choose from one of the three below
Huck Finn passage analysis: passage choices
Passage #1: Chapter 16, pages 88-93
But it warn't. It was Jack-o'-lanterns, or lightning bugs; so he set down again, and went to watching, same as before. Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free—and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way. It got to troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place. It hadn't ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing. But now it did; and it stayed with me, and scorched me more and more. I tried to make out to myself that I warn't to blame, because I didn't run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn't no use, conscience up and says, every time, "But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody." That was so—I couldn't get around that noway. That was where it pinched. Conscience says to me, "What had poor Miss Watson done to you that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you that you could treat her so mean? Why, she tried to learn you your book, she tried to learn you your manners, she tried to be good to you every way she knowed how. That's what she done."
I got to feeling so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead. I fidgeted up and down the raft, abusing myself to myself, and Jim was fidgeting up and down past me. We neither of us could keep still. Every time he danced around and says, "Dah's Cairo!" it went through me like a shot, and I thought if it was Cairo I reckoned I would die of miserableness.
Jim talked out loud all the time while I was talking to myself. He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two children, and if their master wouldn't sell them, they'd get an Ab'litionist to go and steal them.
It most froze me to hear such talk. He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before. Just see what a difference it made in him the minute he judged he was about free. It was according to the old saying, "Give a nigger an inch and he'll take an ell." Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm.
I was sorry to hear Jim say that, it was such a lowering of him. My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, "Let up on me—it ain't too late yet—I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell." I felt easy and happy and light as a feather right off. All my troubles was gone. I went to looking out sharp for a light, and sort of singing to myself. By and by one showed. Jim sings out:
"We's safe, Huck, we's safe! Jump up and crack yo' heels! Dat's de good ole Cairo at las', I jis knows it!"
I says:
"I'll take the canoe and go and see, Jim. It mightn't be, you know."
He jumped and got the canoe ready, and put his old coat in the bottom for me to set on, and give me the paddle; and as I shoved off, he says:
"Pooty soon I'll be a-shout'n' for joy, en I'll say, it's all on accounts o' Huck; I's a free man, en I couldn't ever ben free ef it hadn' ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won't ever forgit you, Huck; you's de bes' fren' Jim's ever had; en you's de only fren' ole Jim's got now."
I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this, it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me. I went along slow then, and I warn't right down certain whether I was glad I started or whether I warn't. When I was fifty yards off, Jim says:
"Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim."
Well, I just felt sick. But I says, I got to do it—I can't get out of it. Right then along comes a skiff with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped. One of them says:
"What's that yonder?"
"A piece of a raft," I says.
"Do you belong on it?"
"Yes, sir."
"Any men on it?"
"Only one, sir."
"Well, there's five niggers run off to-night up yonder, above the head of the bend. Is your man white or black?"
I didn't answer up prompt. I tried to, but the words wouldn't come. I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warn't man enough—hadn't the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakening; so I just give up trying, and up and says:
"He's white."
"I reckon we'll go and see for ourselves."
"I wish you would," says I, "because it's pap that's there, and maybe you'd help me tow the raft ashore where the light is. He's sick—and so is mam and Mary Ann."
"Oh, the devil! we're in a hurry, boy. But I s'pose we've got to. Come, buckle to your paddle, and let's get along."
I buckled to my paddle and they laid to their oars. When we had made a stroke or two, I says:
"Pap'll be mighty much obleeged to you, I can tell you. Everybody goes away when I want them to help me tow the raft ashore, and I can't do it by myself."
"Well, that's infernal mean. Odd, too. Say, boy, what's the matter with your father?"
"It's the—a—the—well, it ain't anything much."
They stopped pulling. It warn't but a mighty little ways to the raft now. One says:
"Boy, that's a lie. What is the matter with your pap? Answer up square now, and it'll be the better for you."
"I will, sir, I will, honest—but don't leave us, please. It's the—the—Gentlemen, if you'll only pull ahead, and let me heave you the headline, you won't have to come a-near the raft—please do."
"Set her back, John, set her back!" says one. They backed water. "Keep away, boy—keep to looard. Confound it, I just expect the wind has blowed it to us. Your pap's got the small-pox, and you know it precious well. Why didn't you come out and say so? Do you want to spread it all over?"
"Well," says I, a-blubbering, "I've told everybody before, and they just went away and left us."
Passage #2: Chapter 23 pages 156-158
I went to sleep, and Jim didn't call me when it was my turn. He often done that. When I waked up just at daybreak he was sitting there with his head down betwixt his knees, moaning and mourning to himself. I didn't take notice nor let on. I knowed what it was about. He was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn't ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n. It don't seem natural, but I reckon it's so. He was often moaning and mourning that way nights, when he judged I was asleep, and saying, "Po' little 'Lizabeth! po' little Johnny! it's mighty hard; I spec' I ain't ever gwyne to see you no mo', no mo'!" He was a mighty good nigger, Jim was.
But this time I somehow got to talking to him about his wife and young ones; and by and by he says:
"What makes me feel so bad dis time 'uz bekase I hear sumpn over yonder on de bank like a whack, er a slam, while ago, en it mine me er de time I treat my little 'Lizabeth so ornery. She warn't on'y 'bout fo' year ole, en she tuck de sk'yarlet fever, en had a powful rough spell; but she got well, en one day she was a-stannin' aroun', en I says to her, I says:
"'Shet de do'.'
"She never done it; jis' stood dah, kiner smilin' up at me. It make me mad; en I says agin, mighty loud, I says:
"'Doan' you hear me? Shet de do'!'
"She jis stood de same way, kiner smilin' up. I was a-bilin'! I says:
"'I lay I make you mine!'
"En wid dat I fetch' her a slap side de head dat sont her a-sprawlin'. Den I went into de yuther room, en 'uz gone 'bout ten minutes; en when I come back dah was dat do' a-stannin' open yit, en dat chile stannin' mos' right in it, a-lookin' down and mournin', en de tears runnin' down. My, but I wuz mad! I was a-gwyne for de chile, but jis' den—it was a do' dat open innerds—jis' den, 'long come de wind en slam it to, behine de chile, ker-BLAM!—en my lan', de chile never move'! My breff mos' hop outer me; en I feel so—so—I doan' know HOW I feel. I crope out, all a-tremblin', en crope aroun' en open de do' easy en slow, en poke my head in behine de chile, sof' en still, en all uv a sudden I says POW! jis' as loud as I could yell. She never budge! Oh, Huck, I bust out a-cryin' en grab her up in my arms, en say, 'Oh, de po' little thing! De Lord God Amighty fogive po' ole Jim, kaze he never gwyne to fogive hisself as long's he live!' Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb—en I'd ben a-treat'n her so!"
Passage #3: Chapter 31 pages 213-216
Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd feel ornery and disgraced. And then think of me! It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again I'd be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame. That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace. That was my fix exactly. The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling. And at last, when it hit me all of a sudden that here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and letting me know my wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in heaven, whilst I was stealing a poor old woman's nigger that hadn't ever done me no harm, and now was showing me there's One that's always on the lookout, and ain't a-going to allow no such miserable doings to go only just so fur and no further, I most dropped in my tracks I was so scared. Well, I tried the best I could to kinder soften it up somehow for myself by saying I was brung up wicked, and so I warn't so much to blame; but something inside of me kept saying, "There was the Sunday-school, you could a gone to it; and if you'd a done it they'd a learnt you there that people that acts as I'd been acting about that nigger goes to everlasting fire."
It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie—I found that out.
So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn't know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I'll go and write the letter—and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote:
Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.
Huck Finn.
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking—thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
"All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up.
It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn't. And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.
The following outline describes what should be done on the paper:
Huck Finn passage analysis essay
Essay question: How does the passage illuminate the conflict between Huck’s “deformed conscience” and “sound heart”?
illuminate (verb): to make something clear and easier to understand
For this essay, you are going to pick one passage from Huck Finn to analyze. You can choose one of three passages to write on. Here are the three choices:
1. Chapter 16, pages 88-93: “But it warn’t […] ole Jim ain’t gwyne to forgit you for dat, honey.”
2. Chapter 23 pages 156-158: “I went to sleep […] en I’d ben a treat’n her so!”
3. Chapter 31 pages 213-216: “Once I said to myself […] I might as well go the whole hog.”
Here are some steps you should take before you write:
Step 1: Reflect on previous efforts
Check the rubric for your last essay to see which areas you can improve. Go to turnitin.com and listen to the audio comments. Check Grademark for previous errors in conventions.
Step 2: Analyze the question
Analyze the essay question carefully before you start reading the passage. Make sure you are clear about exactly which aspects/features you are required to focus on so that you can be on the lookout for them as you read through the passage. Make a note of them or annotate the topic carefully.
Step 3: Read the passage carefully
Read the passage carefully a couple of times and highlight material that is relevant to the topic. Remember: You will have to refer to other characters, events, issues that occur elsewhere in the novel, so jot down ideas as they occur to you.
Step 4: Plan
A. Brainstorm: Make a list of key points you want to include in your essay to cover the various aspects of the question.
(OR)
Use a graphic organizer of the key ideas you want to include in your essay.
B. Arrange your key points in logical order to form your essay outline. Each key idea should be substantial enough to form the topic sentence/main idea of a separate paragraph.
C. Find suitable quotations to use as evidence for the points you have listed.
Step 5: Organize
The following basic framework is helpful when you are writing an essay.
A. Opening paragraph: The function of the opening paragraph is to introduce the subject matter that you are going to be discussing in detail in the paragraphs that follow. You want your reader to know what you are going to be arguing/discussing/exploring.
Briefly outline the subject of the essay; it can be useful to refer to the question and its key words and ideas.Very briefly say where it occurs in the plot. Don’t tell the story! One or two sentences should be enough.
Include a clear and emphatically worded thesis statement in your opening paragraph. The thesis statement is the foundation of your essay. Phrase that one sentence carefully because it is the crux of your essay. It will be the final sentence of your introduction and the starting point for the rest of the writing.
B. Main Body This is where you do your analysis or develop your line of argument. While writing you always want to keep the central ideas of the question in mind to help you stay focused.
Each key idea in your outline needs a paragraph of its own. You want to order your key ideas so that the argument flows logically and seamlessly from the one to the next. This will ensure that the reader can follow your reasoning without confusion as the argument unfolds.
The topic sentence expressing a key idea should appear at or near the beginning of the paragraph. Next, you need to explore your key idea further and include some evidence.
The main body of your essay is where linking words/ argument markers (therefore, furthermore, next, subsequently, in conclusion, etc.) play a crucial role in ensuring that the development of your argument flows logically.
C. Conclusion: Once you have explored all the ideas or arguments you want to mention, finish by briefly summing up the most important points you have made during the course of the essay
Come into class next time ready to use turnitin.com for your on-demand essay on the Second or the third.
We also chose our passage that we will be using on our on-demand test. Choose from one of the three below
Huck Finn passage analysis: passage choices
Passage #1: Chapter 16, pages 88-93
But it warn't. It was Jack-o'-lanterns, or lightning bugs; so he set down again, and went to watching, same as before. Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free—and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way. It got to troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place. It hadn't ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing. But now it did; and it stayed with me, and scorched me more and more. I tried to make out to myself that I warn't to blame, because I didn't run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn't no use, conscience up and says, every time, "But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody." That was so—I couldn't get around that noway. That was where it pinched. Conscience says to me, "What had poor Miss Watson done to you that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you that you could treat her so mean? Why, she tried to learn you your book, she tried to learn you your manners, she tried to be good to you every way she knowed how. That's what she done."
I got to feeling so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead. I fidgeted up and down the raft, abusing myself to myself, and Jim was fidgeting up and down past me. We neither of us could keep still. Every time he danced around and says, "Dah's Cairo!" it went through me like a shot, and I thought if it was Cairo I reckoned I would die of miserableness.
Jim talked out loud all the time while I was talking to myself. He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two children, and if their master wouldn't sell them, they'd get an Ab'litionist to go and steal them.
It most froze me to hear such talk. He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before. Just see what a difference it made in him the minute he judged he was about free. It was according to the old saying, "Give a nigger an inch and he'll take an ell." Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm.
I was sorry to hear Jim say that, it was such a lowering of him. My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, "Let up on me—it ain't too late yet—I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell." I felt easy and happy and light as a feather right off. All my troubles was gone. I went to looking out sharp for a light, and sort of singing to myself. By and by one showed. Jim sings out:
"We's safe, Huck, we's safe! Jump up and crack yo' heels! Dat's de good ole Cairo at las', I jis knows it!"
I says:
"I'll take the canoe and go and see, Jim. It mightn't be, you know."
He jumped and got the canoe ready, and put his old coat in the bottom for me to set on, and give me the paddle; and as I shoved off, he says:
"Pooty soon I'll be a-shout'n' for joy, en I'll say, it's all on accounts o' Huck; I's a free man, en I couldn't ever ben free ef it hadn' ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won't ever forgit you, Huck; you's de bes' fren' Jim's ever had; en you's de only fren' ole Jim's got now."
I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this, it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me. I went along slow then, and I warn't right down certain whether I was glad I started or whether I warn't. When I was fifty yards off, Jim says:
"Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim."
Well, I just felt sick. But I says, I got to do it—I can't get out of it. Right then along comes a skiff with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped. One of them says:
"What's that yonder?"
"A piece of a raft," I says.
"Do you belong on it?"
"Yes, sir."
"Any men on it?"
"Only one, sir."
"Well, there's five niggers run off to-night up yonder, above the head of the bend. Is your man white or black?"
I didn't answer up prompt. I tried to, but the words wouldn't come. I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warn't man enough—hadn't the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakening; so I just give up trying, and up and says:
"He's white."
"I reckon we'll go and see for ourselves."
"I wish you would," says I, "because it's pap that's there, and maybe you'd help me tow the raft ashore where the light is. He's sick—and so is mam and Mary Ann."
"Oh, the devil! we're in a hurry, boy. But I s'pose we've got to. Come, buckle to your paddle, and let's get along."
I buckled to my paddle and they laid to their oars. When we had made a stroke or two, I says:
"Pap'll be mighty much obleeged to you, I can tell you. Everybody goes away when I want them to help me tow the raft ashore, and I can't do it by myself."
"Well, that's infernal mean. Odd, too. Say, boy, what's the matter with your father?"
"It's the—a—the—well, it ain't anything much."
They stopped pulling. It warn't but a mighty little ways to the raft now. One says:
"Boy, that's a lie. What is the matter with your pap? Answer up square now, and it'll be the better for you."
"I will, sir, I will, honest—but don't leave us, please. It's the—the—Gentlemen, if you'll only pull ahead, and let me heave you the headline, you won't have to come a-near the raft—please do."
"Set her back, John, set her back!" says one. They backed water. "Keep away, boy—keep to looard. Confound it, I just expect the wind has blowed it to us. Your pap's got the small-pox, and you know it precious well. Why didn't you come out and say so? Do you want to spread it all over?"
"Well," says I, a-blubbering, "I've told everybody before, and they just went away and left us."
Passage #2: Chapter 23 pages 156-158
I went to sleep, and Jim didn't call me when it was my turn. He often done that. When I waked up just at daybreak he was sitting there with his head down betwixt his knees, moaning and mourning to himself. I didn't take notice nor let on. I knowed what it was about. He was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn't ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n. It don't seem natural, but I reckon it's so. He was often moaning and mourning that way nights, when he judged I was asleep, and saying, "Po' little 'Lizabeth! po' little Johnny! it's mighty hard; I spec' I ain't ever gwyne to see you no mo', no mo'!" He was a mighty good nigger, Jim was.
But this time I somehow got to talking to him about his wife and young ones; and by and by he says:
"What makes me feel so bad dis time 'uz bekase I hear sumpn over yonder on de bank like a whack, er a slam, while ago, en it mine me er de time I treat my little 'Lizabeth so ornery. She warn't on'y 'bout fo' year ole, en she tuck de sk'yarlet fever, en had a powful rough spell; but she got well, en one day she was a-stannin' aroun', en I says to her, I says:
"'Shet de do'.'
"She never done it; jis' stood dah, kiner smilin' up at me. It make me mad; en I says agin, mighty loud, I says:
"'Doan' you hear me? Shet de do'!'
"She jis stood de same way, kiner smilin' up. I was a-bilin'! I says:
"'I lay I make you mine!'
"En wid dat I fetch' her a slap side de head dat sont her a-sprawlin'. Den I went into de yuther room, en 'uz gone 'bout ten minutes; en when I come back dah was dat do' a-stannin' open yit, en dat chile stannin' mos' right in it, a-lookin' down and mournin', en de tears runnin' down. My, but I wuz mad! I was a-gwyne for de chile, but jis' den—it was a do' dat open innerds—jis' den, 'long come de wind en slam it to, behine de chile, ker-BLAM!—en my lan', de chile never move'! My breff mos' hop outer me; en I feel so—so—I doan' know HOW I feel. I crope out, all a-tremblin', en crope aroun' en open de do' easy en slow, en poke my head in behine de chile, sof' en still, en all uv a sudden I says POW! jis' as loud as I could yell. She never budge! Oh, Huck, I bust out a-cryin' en grab her up in my arms, en say, 'Oh, de po' little thing! De Lord God Amighty fogive po' ole Jim, kaze he never gwyne to fogive hisself as long's he live!' Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb—en I'd ben a-treat'n her so!"
Passage #3: Chapter 31 pages 213-216
Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd feel ornery and disgraced. And then think of me! It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again I'd be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame. That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace. That was my fix exactly. The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling. And at last, when it hit me all of a sudden that here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and letting me know my wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in heaven, whilst I was stealing a poor old woman's nigger that hadn't ever done me no harm, and now was showing me there's One that's always on the lookout, and ain't a-going to allow no such miserable doings to go only just so fur and no further, I most dropped in my tracks I was so scared. Well, I tried the best I could to kinder soften it up somehow for myself by saying I was brung up wicked, and so I warn't so much to blame; but something inside of me kept saying, "There was the Sunday-school, you could a gone to it; and if you'd a done it they'd a learnt you there that people that acts as I'd been acting about that nigger goes to everlasting fire."
It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie—I found that out.
So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn't know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I'll go and write the letter—and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote:
Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.
Huck Finn.
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking—thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
"All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up.
It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn't. And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.
The following outline describes what should be done on the paper:
Huck Finn passage analysis essay
Essay question: How does the passage illuminate the conflict between Huck’s “deformed conscience” and “sound heart”?
illuminate (verb): to make something clear and easier to understand
For this essay, you are going to pick one passage from Huck Finn to analyze. You can choose one of three passages to write on. Here are the three choices:
1. Chapter 16, pages 88-93: “But it warn’t […] ole Jim ain’t gwyne to forgit you for dat, honey.”
2. Chapter 23 pages 156-158: “I went to sleep […] en I’d ben a treat’n her so!”
3. Chapter 31 pages 213-216: “Once I said to myself […] I might as well go the whole hog.”
Here are some steps you should take before you write:
Step 1: Reflect on previous efforts
Check the rubric for your last essay to see which areas you can improve. Go to turnitin.com and listen to the audio comments. Check Grademark for previous errors in conventions.
Step 2: Analyze the question
Analyze the essay question carefully before you start reading the passage. Make sure you are clear about exactly which aspects/features you are required to focus on so that you can be on the lookout for them as you read through the passage. Make a note of them or annotate the topic carefully.
Step 3: Read the passage carefully
Read the passage carefully a couple of times and highlight material that is relevant to the topic. Remember: You will have to refer to other characters, events, issues that occur elsewhere in the novel, so jot down ideas as they occur to you.
Step 4: Plan
A. Brainstorm: Make a list of key points you want to include in your essay to cover the various aspects of the question.
(OR)
Use a graphic organizer of the key ideas you want to include in your essay.
B. Arrange your key points in logical order to form your essay outline. Each key idea should be substantial enough to form the topic sentence/main idea of a separate paragraph.
C. Find suitable quotations to use as evidence for the points you have listed.
Step 5: Organize
The following basic framework is helpful when you are writing an essay.
A. Opening paragraph: The function of the opening paragraph is to introduce the subject matter that you are going to be discussing in detail in the paragraphs that follow. You want your reader to know what you are going to be arguing/discussing/exploring.
Briefly outline the subject of the essay; it can be useful to refer to the question and its key words and ideas.Very briefly say where it occurs in the plot. Don’t tell the story! One or two sentences should be enough.
Include a clear and emphatically worded thesis statement in your opening paragraph. The thesis statement is the foundation of your essay. Phrase that one sentence carefully because it is the crux of your essay. It will be the final sentence of your introduction and the starting point for the rest of the writing.
B. Main Body This is where you do your analysis or develop your line of argument. While writing you always want to keep the central ideas of the question in mind to help you stay focused.
Each key idea in your outline needs a paragraph of its own. You want to order your key ideas so that the argument flows logically and seamlessly from the one to the next. This will ensure that the reader can follow your reasoning without confusion as the argument unfolds.
The topic sentence expressing a key idea should appear at or near the beginning of the paragraph. Next, you need to explore your key idea further and include some evidence.
The main body of your essay is where linking words/ argument markers (therefore, furthermore, next, subsequently, in conclusion, etc.) play a crucial role in ensuring that the development of your argument flows logically.
C. Conclusion: Once you have explored all the ideas or arguments you want to mention, finish by briefly summing up the most important points you have made during the course of the essay
Come into class next time ready to use turnitin.com for your on-demand essay on the Second or the third.
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