Friday and Tuesday; February 12 and February 16

quiz over chapter 33. If you were not there for the quiz, or you did poorly on the quiz, look at the previous post and see how you can make it up.

We read 34 and 35 in class, and assigned 36 for homework.

Page two of the grammar packet is about colons. If we didn't do it in class, do it at home.


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You can still make up for poor quiz scores or missing quiz scores by writing a magic four paragraph:
If you missed the quiz, write a paragraph over some important aspect of the chapter. Notice how the chapter number is included in the first sentence. Notice also the quoted evidence and the parenthetical citation with the page number. Follow these steps:

Make a claim, support with quoted evidence, explain how the evidence proves your claim, and explore how this will affect the book.

Example:

Mark Twain's mother is affecting how the character Mary Jane is portrayed in Chapter 26. Mary Jane says to treat Huck "kind, and not be saying things to make him remember he ain't in his own country and amongst his own folks" (142). This tells Joanna to be kind, no matter what someone says or does. This reminds me of when Mark Twain's mom tells her son to treat the black boy kind and let him sing. When he sings, he forgets that he is not with his own family. I see Mark Twain's mother reflected in Mary Jane's personality. When Huck decides he shouldn't be a part of defrauding the Wilks sisters, it hearkens back to the message Samuel Clemens got from his mother.