December 10

HOMEWORK: Read chapters 1-5, Huckleberry Finn
Online text: Huckleberry Finn; audiobook: Huckleberry Finn

Scarlet Letter Study Guide
Scarlet Letter Test, chapters 1-12
Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
quiz Tuesday, December 10 over words preternatural-denizen

Mark Twain: His Amazing Adventures--watch to origin of name Mark Twain




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Apple Computers TV ad narrated by Steve Jobs:  The Crazy Ones (Twain and Thoreau would be "crazy ones," too)
And the same message at Jobs' memorial service Crazy Ones
Can you see that the message of this ad is in line with Emerson and Thoreau's thinking?
How?
Do Schools Kill Creativity?--Sir Kenneth Robinson. The is the #1 TED Talk of all time.
Changing Education Paradigms, by Sir Kenneth Robinson--FASCINATING
In what ways is the message of this TED Talk in line with Emerson and Thoreau's thinking?