Book Write #3 for Huckleberry Finn

You should have the TITLE, AUTHOR, THESIS, and GOOD  SETUP paragraph (3 good sentences). Don't leave your Shaefer paragraphs hanging out to dry.

Write about Huck Finn’s best friend. Is Tom Huck’s best friend? Is Buck Huck’s best friend? Is Jim Huck’s best friend? Support your answer with quotes. Use 2 quotes per body paragraph, six quotes total.

Write about a time your pretended to be someone you were not. Compare your own experiences to Huckleberry Finn’s and use quotes and examples of disguises from the book. Don’t write too much about yourself, write primarily about Huckleberry Finn.

Write about a time when someone you knew was in “forbidden” relationship. Compare their experience with Sophia and Harney. Use quotes and examples from the book, at least 2 per paragraph. In this case, you should set up Huckleberry Finn’s experience in the first 2 paragraph’s, your own comparison in paragraph 3, and then tie them together in the last paragraph.

Write about a family in a feud. Compare them to the Shepherdsons and Grangerfords. You would use a modern, famous comparison and compare them to the feud in Huckleberry Finn. In this case, you would set up Huckleberry Finn’s feud, and then use the modern fued, and then tie it together in the fourth paragraph.

Write about a time when someone close to you died. What was it like for you and for the people close to you. This would be similar to the death of Buck Grangerford for Huckleberry Finn. Compare this and use quotes.

Flex Fathers & Sons (and Euphemisms)

Today we discussed euphemisms and fathers and sons. The lesson is located here.

Book Write #2

Character 
Due THURSDAY (A-day) or FRIDAY (B-day!! (choose ONE of the following prompts) 
Your first paragraph should include the TITLE of the book, the AUTHOR of the book, and you should have 3 good paragraphs with QUOTES from your book.

• Describe your main character. What is the main character’s most dominant feature? Youshould have 3 good paragraphs, at least 5 good quotes from the book, and a good topic sentence!
• Write about your main character. In addition, create a word collage using quotes from the book, and then explain why you chose the words you did.
• Choose a famous person to compare to... Who would you choose, and why? Make sure you include plenty of quotes from your book!
• If your character played an instrument, what would they play, and why? (It can’t be theradio!) Don’t forget you need quotes from the book!

Wednesday's Flex: The Voice of the Future

Today's flex was on "The Voice" as sung by Celtic Woman.
The lesson link is here.

At the end of the lesson, you should know the concept of:

• Personification
• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Tone
• Theme

for this song

No video for this song.

Assignment is worth 10 extra credit points.

First Flex

Today, we did "No Time to Kill" by Clint Black (copyright 1993)
There was no video for the lesson, but we did listen to the music. 
This lesson was worth 10 extra credit points.

B4 English 10

Today you took the CRT. After you finished section 1, you should have read in your outside reading book. If you have not finished book write 1, you should work on that. If you have, you may read or work on book writes 2 (or others). See the link here.

Honors English--Huck Finn Today

You should have finished chapters 4-7 today... What did you think? How about that Pap Finn? Terrific dad, eh?? Trade your own dad on him, hmmm??? Monster in the closet, for sure.

Two poems to consider for comparison/contrast.
My Papa's Waltz
Those Winter Sundays

Here's your writing prompt again if you need it. It is due on FRIDAY.

Commonly Confused Words

Link here to the 14 commonly confused words on the CRT.
Link here to the common comma rules
Figurative Language examples

Homework: BRING YOUR BOOK NEXT TIME.

Your Book Write #1 is DUE NEXT TIME!!

Book Write #1 is Due NEXT TIME
In paragraph one, include the Title of your book. Include the Author of your book. Make sure your TOPIC SENTENCE is clear. Choose ONLY ONE of these:
    Describe the setting of your book. Where does your book take place?
     Re-set your play... where ELSE on earth could your play be set where it could still make sense? Is there an alternate time that it could be set?
     Are there possible pasts that have occurred? What’s happened before your book started? How do you know? What’s the back story? What’s gone on before? What’s the set-up?
Did you lose your handout? Download HERE.

Honors English this week

We are going to start The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn this week. You will get your bookmark with reading schedule, and you should read, by Thursday, chapters 1-3. You will write your first book write on chapters 1-3. Here is the LINK for the study guide and thought exercise. Your thought exercise is also due BY THURSDAY.


You are honors students. You should be completing your work on time.

What are we doing this week in English?

What is a CRT?
Why do I take one EVERY YEAR?? (No, seriously?!)
What other "assessments" have we had besides the CRT this year?
We will be reviewing what the CRT looks like.
How is the CRT graded? When will I get my scores back?
We will look at this article in Time magazine and discuss informational questions it will ask.
We'll discuss the reading/writing questions on the CRT.

NEXT week, Flex will start.
Calendar Link
Honors Calendar

Honors Book Write on Home Reading Book

Which book did you choose? Who wrote it? 
Why did you choose this book?


Why is it a classic?
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is considered THE great American Classic. How would your book compare? Why? What would Mark Twain say about your book? How do you know? (Guess/infer).


What did you learn about Mark Twain from doing the assignment over the last 2 days?

Your Book Write

Why did you choose this specific book?
Looking at the front cover: how do you know you are the specific audience? How do you know that they are selling TO YOU? What makes this book interesting to you?

Why do you think this book is a best seller?
Make some educated guesses about your book. Predict what you think will happen in your book.

You are going to attach the amazon.com page to this.
If you turn this in BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON it will NOT be late.
After spring break it will BE LATE.

Spirit Bowl Schedule

8 FRI B
B-1 7:45a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Passing 8:45a.m. – 8:50 a.m.
B-2 8:50 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.
Passing 9:50a.m. – 9:55a.m.
SPIRIT BOWL- 9:55 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. 1hour 30 minutes
Lunch 11:25 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Passing 12:05 p.m. – 12:10 p.m.
B-3 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.
Passing 1:10 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
B-4 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. NO ANNOUNCEMENTS or T-Wolf TV

Speak out against the designated hitter!

Today you should be working with the McDougal-Littel text book. It's purple, and it's on the floor next to the east wall.
You should start with The Writing Connection on page 198. Choose a person or issue and write about something important, a person or issue that changed your life; something that you chose to do that you might otherwise never have done.
After you have done The Writing Connection, you'll look on page 209. You'll be creating an advertisement for something at THS. This is for anything that occurs here: sporting, dramatic, academic, extra-curricular, teacher, class, project. It could be a club, or a play, or an intramural event. Your job is to sell it to our class. Working with a group of 2 or 3 people, create an advertisement. Come up with a way to market, sell, and deliver the product (this event) to your audience (THS) at large. What would you do? There's 11x17 paper. You can create a billboard on that paper, or you can create a marketing scheme on that paper. You should have a creative jingle (or blurb) and it should be good enough that I will give you serious points for it.
If your group creates a good marketing plan and you're willing to move on, you may want to then start reading on page 221 (the story starts on 222 "Montgomery Boycott"). I won't be giving you any more time to do the advertisement. So, be happy with the time you had, and make sure you turn in for credit your personal writing and your group advertisement.
Your HOMEWORK is to get your book for your book report!! Don't forget!!

Honors English

Today, you should have worked with The Autobiography of Mark Twain the teacher's edition. You should have written down notes on local character, irony, and worked with the text as if you were the teacher. Sometimes it is important to discover what is important about the text for yourself.

You should have worked with the text with a partner and you should have worked diligently with the text.

April Fool's Day!!

Today, we started out talking about April Fool's Day
and well known pranks. Google always pulls a prank. Today's
Find Chuck Norris??
RIP Jackie Chan??
Homework? Choose your best seller!*
"FIELD" trip (5 things) 15 minutes

1. Taste
2. Touch
3. Smell
4. Sound
5. Sight

Write about what you saw. Give me 3 good paragraphs about SPRING. Describe it for me. Use your 5 senses.
First read...
You are going to read someone else's write. At the end, make a comment. Write about what you are thinking. Positive comment. What could they add (details, questions, or comments)? Or things you liked? Or questions you have about the event? 
Second read...
You are going to read someone else's paper. What do you wish you knew? What do you wish they had included? What do you wish they would add? Be kind in your questions, but ask new questions. What details do you wish they would include? Think who, what, when, where, why, how?
Last the best of all...
Tell me the best things you saw as you read. What do your classmates do well? What compliments can you give your classmates? What do you see your fellow writers doing? What is one compliment you can give someone?