More On the New Huck Finn

Here's another author on the Huck Finn "slave" edition controversy.

The Cherry Orchard Assigment

Read Act One of The Cherry Orchard and write on blog entry.

You may wish to watch this BBC production of the play to help your understanding.

Gardens, Trees, Orchards, and Related Shubbery

This week you're second draft of your Huck Finn papers are due on Wednesday or Thursday (consult calendar on Sharepoint).

Also this week you must read one poem or short story from any of the following literary magazines available exclusively in the library: Tin House, Poetry, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly by next Monday. Please note you may not take out magazines; they are only for reading in the reading room. You may not read digitally for this exercise.

Secondly, you must read "Cherry Ripe" by Thomas Campion and create some sort of visualization of it. You may do this digitally, with collage, drawing, whatever you like as long as it is visually appealing.

MLA Format Tips Again

Please reading this page carefully.

Paper on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This Wednesday or Thursday (depending when your section meets) you must bring your first draft of a 3-4 page essay in MLA format about one aspect of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This will be your only assigment outside of class until next week.

Where Twain Shall Meet

This week I’d like you to write a response to each of the following essays or articles about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I expect to see you citing text in your discussions. That is one response per article:

What’s different about this newer gentler edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Are Huck and Jim a minstrel show?

Was Twain borrowing from others unjustly when he wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Oh, and a vocab list should you need it.