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FINAL EXAM, January 22

• Huck Finn test
• 40 Vocab Words-- vocabulary words from the 2010 PSAT   Harmony Alvarez made this Quizlet deck for the words. Thank you Harmony!   Vocab from 2010 PSAT

Extra Credit option for the end of the semester
Creative Book Report--Raise your grade up to +5%
Read one of the novels from the following list and write a book report. This is quite a bit of work, but the book reports are a lot of fun and the novels are fantastic.
Reading List
Creative Book Reports
Due at the Final Exam

TODAY:
Journal: Take fifteen minutes to evaluate the following. I'm not so much concerned with paragraph structure and all--simply get out as many of your ideas as you can in 15 min.
Prompt: At the beginning of chapter 22, Colonel Sherburn talks to the crowd and delivers a message with some thought-provoking ideas. Is he speaking for Twain? In other words, is he the voice of the author, sharing an insightful idea concerning human nature? To what extent is this true? What is Twain's message to us? Quite likely he is saying more than one thing.








Huck Finn--The Death of Boggs
What point is Mark Twain making in this passage from the novel? In particular, what aspect of Colonel Sherburn's character does Twain find repugnant?
HOMEWORK:
Write one long paragraph explaining Twain's point. Refer to two or more specific examples of word choice, imagery, etc. to support your point.
This assignment is a short version of a commentary. The passage is approximately 30 lines long, and you are to explain the effect of the imagery in the passage (common IB prompt wording).
To do this you must:
     1. Identify a theme. Often it helps to find what you consider to the be key word of the passage
     2. Write a topic sentence for that theme stating the point the author is making
     3. Find textual support--one very specific example, quoted
     4. Explain what point is being made in the quoted word or image
     (it will likely take two sentences to fully explain)
     5. Find a second example of textual support--one very specific example, quoted
     6. Explain what point is being made in the quoted word or image
     7. Concluding sentence

Compare Boggs illustration to:

Goya's painting Execution, May 3, 1808

Manet's Execution Emperor Maximillian

Picasso's Guernica

Wikipedia article discussing Goya's painting

Extra Credit option for the end of the semester
Creative Book Report--Raise your grade up to +5%
Read one of the novels from the following list and write a book report. This is quite a bit of work, but the book reports are a lot of fun and the novels are fantastic.
Reading List
Creative Book Reports