Reconstruction/Huck Finn Assessment

Today's Agenda:

• Assessment for Huck Finn
• Work on the Chapter Attack for Reconstruction (Chapter 12)

Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

Review: Huck Finn Chapters 15 and 16

• Moral development, internal conflict, and dramatic irony
• "Stuck in a fog"--Literal (actual) vs. Figurative (deeper meaning)
• How is Huck figuratively stuck in a fog?
• Why does Huck trick Jim?
• How does Jim react?
• What is Twain showing us about Jim?
• How does Huck feel after?
• Dramatic irony--When the reader knows something the character does not
• What is ironic about this chapter?
• Conflict--Internal vs. External
• Man vs. Self, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society/Ideas
• What is Huck's internal conflict?
• What does Huck do? Why?

Discuss: The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction

Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

• Huck Finn
• Review questions on chapters 5 and 6
• Need to know: chapters 7-14
• Read: chapters 15 & 16 FINISH FOR HOMEWORK
• Discuss: the Southern Reaction to Reconstruction
• The Jim Crow Museum

Reconstruction/Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

• Reconstruction under President Andrew Johnson
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Need to Know, chapters 1-4
• Read chapters 5 & 6 FINISH QUESTIONS FOR HOMEWORK

Reconstruction/Huck Finn

• Hand in Whitman project
• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan/Assassination of Lincoln
• Intro Mark Twain! Why is this guy important?
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Need to Know, chapters 1-4
• Read chapters 5 & 6

Unit Assessment (The Civil War)

Today's Agenda:

• Take: the Civil War Exam
• Finish: Whitman Activity (due tomorrow)
• Preview: Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Unit-The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

Review the Whitman project (due Friday)
Review of the Civil War
Study: Unit Exam tomorrow

Unit-The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

Complete the Walt Whitman activity:

• Poetry 
• Poem
• Picture

Unit-The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

Geography and War Strategy
Shermans March/The End of the War
Poetry of Walt Whitman

Unit-The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

View: Civil War Map
Civil War Trust: Animated Maps of Major Battles
Civil War 150: Another cool website from History.com

Lecture/Discussion on Major Topics associated with the Civil War

Unit-Civil War

Today's Agenda:

Civil War Project Presentations:

• President's speeches on secession
• Political/Military Leaders
• Maps
• Newspaper Editorials
• Personal Narratives

Lecture/Chart: Comparing the North and South in 1861

The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

We have access to more technology today. Use your time wisely to transition from research to "final product."

Some are:

• writing speeches
• preparing presentations
• creating maps
• writing editorials
• writing historical fiction (narratives)
• preparing bio's

Unit 2-The Civil War

Today;s Agenda:

Research: We are in the library today and tomorrow. Reminder, you need to find 3 sources and fill out the source sheets that we handed out yesterday.

• Use our databases! Check out the libguide created by Ms. Hopkins
• What responsibility you have within the project will determine what you search for...
• Speeches should research the men themselves, what their opinions were, events that were happening at the time of secession/surrender...
• Maps & Battles should research geographical advantages, life of soldiers during the time, primary accounts of battles...
• Editorials should research actual newspapers from the time as well as lives of individuals and how they felt about events of the time
• Personal Letters should research various events/trends that affected people (like battles, riots, laws, elections, food shortages, blockades, family crises, etc.), as well as actual letters from the time period
• It is required you have at least three sources (books, databases) with a filled out Research Source Organizer for each source
• You may notice there is a new tab at the header. This is our "Resources" tab that we will periodically be throwing helpful tools, websites, articles, and materials for general classroom/studying use.

Unit 2-The Civil War

Agenda:

• Yesterday we wrapped up Slavery with our unit assessment
• Today, we kick off the Civil War with a Group Project!
• Ms. Hopkins will join us to talk about resources available to us
• Here is a research source organizer

Slavery

Agenda:

• Review American paragraphs...things to work on
• Review unit, hand out Summative Assessment
• What makes a good response? How to integrate quotes?

Unit1-Pre-Civil War America

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Slave Girl Chapters 29 and 30
• Review questions for Slave Girl should be completed/Handed in
• Election of 1860
• Review Unit 1 (History and Literature)

The Presidential Election of 1860

Unit-Pre-Civil War America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Slave Girl Chapters 21 and 23
• John Brown: Radical Abolitionist
• Quotes

Unit 1-Pre-Civil War America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Slave Girl Chapters 15/16
• Examine: the Rise of Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln Reenactment
• Read: Chapters 21 and 23 in Slave Girl

Unit 1-Slavery/Pre-Civil war America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Slave Girl chapters 5 and 6
• Dred Scott decision: How did this Supreme Court ruling affect slavery and the abolition movement?
• Dred Scott Questions
• Read: Slave Girl Chapter 15