Thanksgiving


 * Personal Wikispaces:** (see example on Electronic Portfolios page)
 * Add Your High School Course List Information—edit the page you already created to list the courses you have taken in high school
 * Add your wiki link to the Electronic Portfolios page on wikispaces

** Huck Finn **
 * Read through Chapter 18—Take notes in book as you read
 * Characterization/Development: (Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer)
 * Plot Structure: (Episodic Novel)
 * Author's Craft: (Language Used and Social Commentary)
 * Possible Themes
 * Answer Chapter Questions (given in class and linked on Huckleberry Finn page)

** Franklin Experiment **
 * Journal/Write/Reflect on “fitness” three times before Monday--1/2 a page minimum each time
 * Edit the Electronic Portfolios page on wikispaces to add what you are using for this assignment

** For Tuesday: ** ** Mark Twain's Birthday Celebration Honoring Local Color Realism **

WRITING and FOOD due: TUESDAY, November 30th

For Mark Twain’s upcoming birthday, we will honor his legacy by discussing his American classic of local color realism, __Adventures of Huckleberry Finn__. In order to capture our own local color, the theme of our refreshments for the event will be Delaware-based. Therefore, the food contributed by students must be linked to Delaware.

So, you must research Delaware (do not spend more than 15 minutes!). What do we grow, raise and import? How does it influence what we eat?

Brainstorm starters: · Who settled Delaware? · What major celebrations/events occur in the state or individual towns? · Local specialties? · Famous people? · Significant landmarks? · Signature restaurants? · Famous products?

//** Task: **//
 * RESEARCH WRITING: Write **one** double spaced page using your research to answer the research questions: What do we grow, raise and import in Delaware? How does it influence what we eat? Make sure you cite at least one reliable source. See the directions below to cite your source.


 * RESEARCH PRODUCT: Decide on a food that reflects or connects to your research (Delaware-based). Make it or purchase it.


 * PRODUCT EXPLANATION: Then, write a paragraph describing your food and explaining how it connects to Delaware. How does it capture the local color realism of the state?


 * MARK TWAIN BIRTHDAY CARD: Make Mark Twain a birthday card that includes at least one quote from anything he has written or has been written about him. Be certain to include the APA reference for the quote on the back of the card.

** Citing Web Pages AS A REFERENCE in APA FORMAT **

Elements · ** Author ** : Usually found at the top or bottom of the web page. Look for: Author, Compiler/Compiled by, Maintainer/Maintained by. If author is not available, begin your citation with the web page title. · ** Publication Date ** : Usually found at the end of the document. Use the last update if available. Use the copyright date if available. If the month and day are given, include them. If a publication date is not available, use n.d. (no date). · ** Web Page Title ** : Give the title of the web page here. If you are citing a specific article within a larger web site, give the title of the article and the name of the larger web site. · ** URL ** : "Uniform Resource Locator" is the web address of your document. It is found at the top right corner of your printout or in the "Location" bar on your web browser. Take care in transcribing the URL. Copying and pasting is recommended. Whenever possible, the URL should take the reader directly to the document you are citing. If this is not possible, the URL should take the reader as close to the document as possible. ** Basic Format ** Author, A. A. (Date of publication). //Title of Page/Document//. Retrieved from URL ** Note: ** The title of the page/document is //italicized//. **Note:** n.d. indicates that no publication date is available.

** EXC: Great Poems—DUE December 3rd **

If you did not purchase a book, you are welcome to come after school next week and complete the assignment in my classroom.

In your “101 Great American Poems” book
 * Read the Introduction
 * Write a Response to Text (your reactions to the ideas)
 * Select a poem by Whitman from the book
 * Summarize the main idea
 * Discuss how it reflects the author’s style
 * Select a poem by Dickinson from the book
 * Summarize the main idea
 * Discuss how it reflects the author’s style