Thursday, February 5

Target:  To practice embedding quotations in a paragraph

In those old slave-holding days the whole community was agreed as to one thing--the awful sacredness of slave property. To help steal a horse or a cow was a low crime, but to help a hunted slave, or feed him or shelter him, or hide him, or comfort him, in his troubles, his terrors, his despair, or hesitate to promptly betray him to the slave-catcher when opportunity offered was a much baser crime, & carried with it a stain, a moral smirch which nothing could wipe away. That this sentiment should exist among slave-owners is comprehensible--there were good commercial reasons for it--but that it should exist & did exist among the paupers, the loafers the tag-rag & bobtail of the community, & in a passionate & uncompromising form, is not in our remote day realizable. It seemed natural enough to me then; natural enough that Huck & his father the worthless loafer should feel it & approve it, though it seems now absurd. It shows that that strange thing, the conscience--the unerring monitor--can be trained to approve any wild thing you want it to approve if you begin its education early & stick to it.- Notebook #35 (reprinted in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Univ. of California Press, 2003

1. quiz on the ending

2. write a paragraph using your details from Tuesday, supporting a claim

3. Assign "Remarking Twain" for Tuesday: Fill out Making Claims chart (on the back side of Forming Claims chart)

4. Are we ready for tomorrow? Vocab 9 test too!