Because so many students leave class to go to college, volunteers will take notes of the days' lesson and type them here. Please put your first name, initial, and the date at the end.

 

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Their votes were tabulated, but few people knew for whom they should vot e(omit the word "for") in the election.

 

"Everyone is invited" he said. "Keisha, Michael, and she are already coming. 

 

• Where- location
• Wear- clothing
• Were- verb
• We're- we are

Ex: "Where were you?" asked Ann. "I was wearing a dress," Carla said.

  

 

We read two articles today, the first being an article entitled, "Nation's Teens Disappointed By Banned Books", and the other entitled, "Conservative Pie; Republicans Introduce Legislation Redefining Pi as Exactly 3"

These articles were both satire.

Satire: mocks or makes fun of people or institutions that have power

• Demands change
• Draws attention to follies (stupidity) of the powerful

Usually focuses on public figures or people spending public money for making decisions that affect other people. 

 

Techniques of satire: 

1. Reduction: Base Word: Reduce. To take away, make smaller, to reduce stature or dignity.

2. Invective: An open insult. Don't use much, not funny and rude.

3. Irony: Twist, say one thing but mean another.

4. Caricature: Exaggerated picture or characterization.

5. Burlesque: Exaggerate with words

6. Reductio ad absurdum: Reducing the argument to absurdity. Author enthusiastically adopts a belief that they do not accept. Carries the argument to its logical conclusion which shows how absurd the argument is.  

 

-Ally H. :)

 

 

 

3.) Julius Caesar wanted to be emperor of Rome although he turned it down in front of the crowds that was at the celebration.

3.) Julius Caesar wanted to be emperor of Rome, although he turned down the position of the crowds at the celebration.

4.) Shakespeare wrote the play Julius Caesar one of my friends think that its the best drama ever wrote.

4.) Shakespeare wrote the play, "Julius Caesar"; one of my friends thinks it's the best drama ever written.

 

--Took Huck Finn reading quiz #3

--Traded papers with someone so they can answer questions about the book

 

--Discussion

How did Jim runaway? Where? How come no one stopped him?

-He picked a specific time; the two sisters were going where?

New Orleans ---- they wanted to sell Jim for the money. (Miss Watson wanted to sell him because a slave trader came to the two sisters offering $800. Miss Watson said yes, The Widow Douglas refused.)

Jim wants to runaway and so he figures out a specific date when the two sisters leave which is the day of the camp meeting (a camp meeting is when a preacher goes out and preaches. a religious get together during the holidays.) He was not afraid of anyone telling on him because all of the slaves went on their "vacation" (a break they are allowed to have during the holidays to visit family or go home) Jim got away by getting to the river and stealing a skiff (a little boat) and he went out to the shore and hid in the cooper shop and stayed there all night. By 6 am so man boats were out there that he waited until the night to keep moving forward. He stole another skiff and stayed in another shop to sleep in. He also went under water with the skiff while he was on the run. Jim is a runaway slave. Huck Finn ran away because he did not want to live with his pap and the two sisters. Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas symbolize "sivilization" (refer to page 1 of the book). He desperately wants to be free because of his papa and society. Jim wants to be free from slavery. They both strive for freedom, but for different reasons. They know each other before both of them escaped. Jim acted the way he did when he saw Huck because Pap was going around saying that Huck Finn was dead. Jim thought he had seen a ghost and was afraid because he is very superstitious. Huck faked his death with the whole pig incident. Pap and Jim are suspects because Pap is a grumpy mean man and Jim disappeared the day of Huck Finn's disappearance. The folks come back home and try to get Huck's body back by shooting a cannon down and bringing the body up from the water. By shooting the cannon in the water to bring the body back up is a superstition. They also tried dumping loaves of bread and quicksilver into the water to make the body come up as well. This is another superstition and also seen as a religious view because bread represents the word of God. People on the boat who were looking for him were the two sisters (Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas), Judge Thatcher, Pap, Aunt Polly, and other important people (sorry I did not get them all, but look back in the book and you will find them). Jim and Huck decided to set camp in the woods in the cavern (fancy word for big cave and it is able to fit two bedrooms and a Hogs head. [Hogs head = big barrel]) Seeing birds fly is another superstition for the start of rain. They get set up and Jim says the he will be rich because he is unique and he wants chest hair and arm hair. Chest and arm hair = wealth. Jim put ten dollars in a cow meaning he invested ten dollars and bought a cow. (Literary device is an idiom) Bought the cow to make money, but cow dies. He sold the hide for a dollar and ten cents. A hide is the skin of a cow. He later invested in a brick bank that a fellow slave had, but that did not work out because it was stolen. Jim lost 10 dollars, but gained back 5 dollars and now he has ten cents. He had a dream he gave it to a slave and the salve gave it to a preacher and the preacher offered it to the Lord and asked for him to multiply it by 100 so that he could have one dollar. When Twain prolongs about a certain topic that means he has a message behind it. (Literary device = satire meaning mocking people or institutions that have power and demands change.) Making fun of banks that they do not take care of your money. Talking about preachers who take money and run away with it. Throughout the book Twain gives long stories and when this happens that means there is a message on it. 

 

These were the notes for February 15, 2012 Reminders!! *If you miss a reading quiz do not forget that you have a week to make it up. Ms. Alger is always there after school except Wednesdays because of teacher meetings. Also there is a vocabulary quiz tomorrow on the next eight words (irony, banish, seedy, raspy, skiff, victuals, carcass, and hypocrite) So do not forget to study. Also if you want more info on today's lecture go listen to the podcast. 

-Gabriella A. 6th period

 

 

Discussion:

 

Was it really A dream that Jim had?

- Huck tried to tell Jim that he was dreaming, but Jim realized that it was not a dream.

 

Tow-head: when a tree branch falls in the river and collects debris forming a small island-like cluster, it doen't stand for very long.

 

Whoop: a cry out

 

Huck feels superior to Jim because Jim is a slave, Huck was mean and selfish towards Jim, so he appologized.

 

Sir Walter Scott: a poet/ writer, historical novels

- 1771-1832, born in Scotland

Romantisism

1. imagination-feelings, new ideas

2. nature-universe

3. myths-knights, dragons

4. romantic hero-Byronic hero: troubled or has flaws, women are usually attracted to this character

people said that romantisist saw the world through "rose colored glasses" meaning that they lived in a fantasy and not in reality they wrote things that weren't really how a scenario would work

Mark Twain disliked Sir Walter Scott because Twain was a realisist and Scott was a romanticist

 

 

Jims plan was:

1. to head north on the Ohio river

2. sell the raft for money

3. by tickets for the steam boat

4. go to the free state and get a job

5. save his money

6. buy his wife

7. work with his wife and save the money

8. buy their kids

9.if they didn't sell them the kids he would hire and abolitionist to steal the kids

 

Hucks conscience was telling him that something about the situation he was in is wrong, he thinks that maybe he should go to shore and tell on Jim because Jim is a run-away slave.

His conscience comes from the society he lives in.

 

_                       -Olivia Kearney:)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disscussion Notes Huck Finn

 

     In Romanticism movement, focused on myths.

     -Knights, dragons, kings, queens, emotional things.

Twain hits on Walter Scott because Twain was a realist and not a Romantisist.

Ode to Stepen Dowling Bots, Dec'd - (pg 77 Huck finn)

     -The author, Emmaline Grangerfeild writes about dead people. Writing a poem about a man falling into a well, which Twain uses as a parody. *Parody is a type of satire used to mock somebody using their own techniques.*

     -Mimicking Sir Walter Scott with his 'sing song poetry'

Emmaline dies becasue she is depressed about not finding a rhyme to a word, so she didn't finish the poem before the undertaker arrived. (Pathetic romanticism to Twain)

 'The Cowards'

     Sherburn: Well respected, imtimidating, from the military, owns a store in the beat up town. Personality: PROUD, too much power, threatened by Boggs talking trash. Kills Boggs.

     Boggs: drunk, cursing. But he was not abusive, and was just a trash talker no one was scared of. Personality: Drunkard, just wanted fairness. Very poor. One daughter. Perople feel sorry for him, even pity him.

     Lynch- Hanging outside of the law. Illegal. Sherburn is on top of his store with a shotgun. Imtimidating the town, insulting them, harassing them.

     Sherburn: "Is a man safe in ten thousand of your kind?" Referring to how terrible the north was in the civil war, making them seem like the bad guys.

     Coward: Lynch people at night with masks on becasue we are too afriad for them to see our faces. Ex: Baldy shooting an unarmed 14 yr old.

     Twain smashes on government here and talks about civil war. Brother against brother, familiy against family. How the south is braver than the north in hte souths point of view.

Mob- Group of angry, angry people.

 

"Juxtaposition" - Author throws you from one place to another to make you dishoriented and confused about where the setting and characters are.  

Example: From the death scene of Boggs, to suddenly a circus.  

 

-Sarah Glastetter Feb. 27, 2012

  

Trans:  over or above

Transcendentalism: literary movement 

                                 - emphasized the spiritual and intuitive

                                 - above the emperical and the material; emperical:measurable, material: money, clothes, posessions and luxury items

Ralph Waldo Emerson: lived from 1803-1882

                                 - wrote an essay "self-reliance"

                                 - rely on what your heart and mind tell you

                                 - Wife died at 19 years old of Tuberculosis, Brother and two sons died

                                 - 1872 his house burned down

                                 - minister - Unitarian

Henry David Thorean: lived from 1817- 1862 Died at 44 years old of tuberculosis

                                 - brother John worked while Henry went to Harvard 

                                 - John cut himself while shaving and got lock-jaw(tetanus) and died in Henry's arms

                                 - lived in Walden Pond for 2 years and 2 months

                                 - was against slavery

In class work:

paraphrase Thoreau and Emerson poems:

 Word in the poems: sage-wisdom(adj), wise person(noun), coeval-same period of time

spelling/vocab test tomorrow

reading log due monday, read to page 155

      -Olivia Kearney, March 1, 2012