Monday

 So, today we will take a quiz on Huckleberry Finn, discuss what you read over break, the episodes up to chapter 21, and look at chapter 22. Note - this week we need to read Abraham Lincoln as well.

Huck Discussion Questions: XXI - XXIII

  1. "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals." This quote is from Twain's essay, "The Damned Human Race." How is this contempt for certain aspects of human behavior evident in the description of the Arkansas town in Chapter XXI? How does he describe the residents?

  2. Why does Huck observe but does not participate in the schemes of the duke and king?

  3. Through the Grangerford episode, Twain was able to criticize the myth of Southern honor. What myth of Southern life does Twain satirize in the Sherburn / Boggs incident (which, by the way, was based on a true incident)? What aspect of human nature does Twain satirize through the scene in the drugstore?

  4. Compare the circus with the entertainment supplied by the duke and king?

  5. What does Huck's reaction to the circus incident tell us about him? Whom does he think was most deceived?

  6. What is Twain implying about human nature through the advertising for the "Royal Nonesuch"?

  7. "What was the use to tell Jim these warn't real kings and dukes? It wouldn't a done no good; and besides, it was just as I said; you couldn't tell them from the real kind." (117). What does Twain imply?

  8. What is significant about the story of 'Lizabeth?

  9. Be ready to tell Huck's story so far. Develop a chronology of events - the more detailed the better! 

     

    READING SCHEDULE 

    1/11 Chapter 22

    1/12 Abraham Lincoln

    1/13 Frederick Douglas

    1/14 Chapter 23

    1/15 Chapters 24-25

    1/18 Chapters 26-27 

    1/19 Quiz and time to work on discussion questions

    1/20 Chapters 28-29 

    1/21 Chapters 30-31

    1/22 Vocabulary Quiz and Chapter 32

    1/25 Chapters 33-34

    1/26 Chapters 35-36

    1/27 Chapters 37-38

    1/28 Chapter 39 and time to catch up on discussion questions

    1/29 Essay Question

    2/1 Chapter 40

    2/2 41 - End

    2/3 Review

    2/4 Review or Emily Dickerson

    2/5 TEST

    2/8 Walt Whitman

    2/9 Essay

    2/10 Essay

    2/11 Essay Due

    2/12 Modernism and The Great Gatsby


    New Vocabulary Words:

    temperance
    histrionic
    muse
    brazen
    contrite
    languish
    calamity
    ponderous
    stealthiest
    blitheful
    infernal
    abolitionist
    confound
    frivolousness
    haughty
    divining 



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