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Students turned in their Huckleberry Finn Facebook pages.  We also went through the novel looking for significant quotes which could end up on the test on Thursday.

HOMEWORK:  Have five quotes with explanations for Wednesday.

We continued working on the technology polls and some students began working on the articles which will be produced.

HOMEWORK:  Story Generators due on Friday.  Articles due on Monday.

We had our one minute drill on the second section of Invisible Man.  We talked about the Liberty Paint Company and its obvious symbolism and the connection between the Brotherhood and the Communist Party.  Good discussion today.

HOMEWORK:  Continue working on the website research projects.

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We had our one minute drill on the last two sections of The Killer Angels.  We discussed the different leadership styles of Robert E. Lee and Joshua Chamberlain (pictured at right).

HOMEWORK:  Review sections on Chamberlain.

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We discussed the final chapters of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and began to prepare for the test on the novel on Thursday.

HOMEWORK:  Continue to prepare for test.

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We began by looking at the recent Boston Globe series on Ted Kennedy and looking at how the Globe used the different kinds of media to flesh out the story.  We talked about how that may be the future of journalism.  Click here for a link to the series.

Following that, we worked on layout and tallying the results from the technology polls.

HOMEWORK:  Story Generators are due on Friday.

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We looked at our Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man websites and made some preliminary evaluations.  We need to work on providing links and our works cited pages.

The image is the Ralph Ellison Memorial.

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We continued watching PBS documentary The Civil War. We finished the Gettysburg section and learned about the battles of Vicksburg and Chattanooga.

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We took a vocab quiz today.

HOMEWORK:  Huck Finn facebook page due on February 24.

We prepared the surveys for our technology poll.

Students submitted articles which were due today.