Reread "A Worn Path" and find the elements of a hero's quest. Also, answer the question, "Why is there a windmill at the end?"

1. COmplete the Huck Finn prompt from class:

Compare Huck’s bout with conscience in chapter 16 with the events of the final chapters in regards to Huck’s participation in Tom’s outrageous plan for Jim’s “escape.”  Has Huck’s conscience evolved by the end of the novel?

2. Bring your printout of "A Worn Path."

3. Bring your Huck Finn book to class.

1. Your journals for the final Huck FInn chapters are due.

2. Bring your journal and Huck Finn book to class.

3. Print out the attached story by Eudora Welty and bring it to class with you. You'll need it for annotating.

1. Finish your second UC prompt.

2. Bring your Huck Finn book and journal.

Complete one of your four chosen UC prompt questions. The finished product must 275-350 words.

Ch. 33-37 journals are due.

Write a paragraph for each of the remaining four UC personal insight questions. Include a specific example for each one.

 

Here's a link to the UC writing prompts and suggestions for what to consider.

Answer four of the eight UC prompts attached. Each response must be a paragraph using at lest one specific example.

Here are the samples for the code of ethics essay.

Historical figure research is due. See attached.

1. Explain a strength and/or weakness for each of the seven essay beginnings. Explain what the one you chose as the best has that the others don't. 

2. Write an introduction and conclusion for the Abigail Adams letter essay.

Give yourself 45 minutes to write the Coca-Cola letters essay. 

Huck Finn chapters 27-32 are due.

FInish your George Orwell questions based on "SHooting an Elephant," which is in your Language of Comp textbook.

Bring your Huck Finn book and journal to class Friday.

Finish the attached assignment on AP prompts, readings and experiences.

Complete the Woolf/Theroux prompt.

Your issue research is due.

Read "Being a Man" on page 378 in Language of Composition and answer the attached questions.

Your questions for "Professions for Women" are attached and due Friday.

Read Virginia Woolf's essay "Professions for Women" in the Language of Composition book. Bring the book with you to class.

1. Bring your Language of Composition book to class this week.

2. Monday will be the first lunch meeting for AP test prep. Bring whatever test prep book you have.

For those happy souls going to the AP Readiness workshop at UCLA, meet on Lurline at 7:45 a.m. Make sure you have your permission slip and the two forms required by UCLA.

If you plan to go to Saturday's AP Readiness workshop, don't forget to register at UCLAAPR.org. Print out the two forms you need to bring with you. I've attached a schedule so you can see what seminars are available. Looks like some good stuff.

HW: Research ethics: Bring in at least two definitions of “ethical,” excluding any definition that merely states that ethical is related to ethics.

How are ethical decisions made?

What are some questions to ask when making ethical decisions?

What are different types of ethics?

Cite your sources.

Complete the ch., 21-26 journals.

This one is optional. If you are interested in participating in the AP Lang study group, it seems like several students wanted the Princeton Review book, so that would be the one to buy. If you've already purchased another one, or if you parents won't spring for it, don't worry; you'll still be able to participate in the study group.

If you plan to attend the April 2 AP Lang training at UCLA, please register, if you haven't already. Here's the link:

You 2/3-1 page detail writing (yes, the desk thing) is due.

Come to Chatsworth Charter High School's Carnival of Knowledge. It's open house and future freshman night combined with educational carnival games and displays by all the programs the school offers. Bring your parents. Tell your neighbors.

Watch the CNN video at the following link:

 

Then complete the attached writing assignment.

Complete the questions for chapter 16. Add them to the same page where you did Thursday's two questions.

3. What loyalties are pulling Huck in different directions?

4.  How do you see irony at work in this chapter, not only with regard to Huck and Jim, but the slave hunters as well?

5.  Huck’s conflict results in a physical reaction—he feels sick and he literally cannot get the words out to tell the men about Jim. What does this tell you?

6.  What is Huck’s conclusion about conflicts such as these?

 7. The hunt for Cairo brings up once again the Moses story. In what ways are the events of this chapter related to the tale of Moses?

 8. Two rivers, the Ohio and Mississippi, merge in this chapter. How is this convergence reflected in the chapter?

 9. How does this chapter affect your judgment of Huck?

 

1. Bring in one piece of research on the class argument topic: Should college education be free? The research must be from a reputable source.

2. Answer the following two questions related to conscience and Huck Finn:

1. 1Where does a person’s conscience come from? What forces influence it? Is a conscience strictly formed by external sources? Research this topic and write a couple of paragraphs explaining you answer and citing the sources for your information.

 2. What has contributed to Huck Finn’s conscience? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.

Journals for chapters 8-14 are due.

1. Finish the questions about Obama's Osama speech.

2. Bring in one argument topic in the form of a question.

Finish your satire writing and answering the questions about how Jim is portrayed.

1. Journals for Ch. 1-7 are due.

2. Finish your "moment" writing. See the attached document.

Go to the computer lab in E32, not N208, for class on Tuesday.

Bring your blue card with your id number

If you missed either of these two class assignments, you must turn in the work on Thursday.

Read chapters 1-4 in Huck Finn.

1. Research the Biblical figure Moses and write two paragraphs in your own words explaining who he is and what he did.

2. Read chapters 1-2 of Huck Finn.

Review the PDF with commonly held liberal and conservative positions.

Answer the questions and write the letter listed in the Word file.

Finish your torture essay. Attached are the format and sources.

2. Make a T-chart - on one side pro torture evidence, on the other anti-torture evidence. Write the author and page number, when available, for each piece of evidence.

3. Select the three best pieces of evidence from each side

4. Identify (and write down) a potential weakness in each piece of evidence (how could you argue against it? Under what circumstances would the evidence be invalid?)

Read the first two articles in the attached PDF and then answer to questions in the Word file.