Daily Log

Wednesday, March 4

Students recorded concrete details from Chapter XIII, Honest Loot From the Walter Scott, and we discussed the end of Chapter XII as well, comparing Huck's rationalizations of stealing watermelons with the scoundrels' rationalization of murder, and contrasting those rationalizations with Huck's attempt to save the murderers in Chapter XIII.

Next, students received handouts for the first step of the Huck Finn essay, including a sheet outlining the assignment and two notesheets for quotations and commentary from the first two stages of Huck's journey (Chapters 1-7 and Chapters 8-16). There were questions about the assignment, after which students began work on their quotations and commentary.

Quiz tomorrow over Chapters 1-16.
Students will be required to identify the context of selected quotations from the novel.