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=Monday, January 9= =Tuesday, January 10= =Wednesday, January 11= =Thursday, January 12= =Friday, January 13=
 * Reading quiz Ch. 4 - 6
 * discuss book
 * cannon to find Huck
 * mercury in bread
 * prayer works!
 * Mississippi flooding
 * levees
 * vocab
 * ====13. intransigent, adj. – refusing to compromise====
 * ====14. invidious, adj. – offensive, hateful====
 * ====15. largesse, n. – generosity in giving====
 * ====16. reconnaissance, n. – a survey made for military purposes====
 * time to read?
 * quiz on ch. 9-11
 * discuss book
 * storm imagery - p. 59
 * moonshine - p. 63
 * 6-foot catfish - p. 64
 * Huck as a girl - p. 70-71
 * vocab
 * 17. substantiate, v. - to establish by evidence, to prove; to give concrete, substantial form to
 * 18. taciturn, adj. - habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
 * 19. temporize, v. - to stall or act evasively in order to gain time; to compromise
 * 20. tenable, adj. - capable of being held or defended
 * quiz on Ch. 12 - 14
 * discuss book
 * Huck's Moral Dilemmas handout
 * notes on first chapters
 * discuss book
 * Huck wrongs Jim
 * Huck realizes what he's done, apologizes
 * Comedy definitions
 * tragedy – a work about an important person with a flaw who suffers a catastrophe. He realizes he’s wrong. The whole work teaches the audiences pity for the hero and awe of the gods.
 * comedy – a work designed to amuse. There is a resolution of conflict, traditionally a marriage at the end.
 * satire – A comic work making fun of people or society, designed to improve people or society.
 * sarcasm – comedy intended to hurt someone.
 * parody – comedy which borrows the of another work and makes fun of it.
 * dramatic irony – when the audience knows something the characters don’t know.
 * irony – an incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs.
 * time to work on vocab exercise - p. 24 - Completing the Sentence
 * 5 pts.
 * due before quiz, Thursday, Jan. 19
 * Precious Knowledge preview
 * Mourning Art slides
 * Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd
 * Open book quiz Ch. 15 - 19
 * Vocab ex. p. 25 - Synonyms and Antonyms
 * due before quiz, Thurs., Jan. 19
 * 5 pts.