 Twain: Realism vs. Romanticism Monday Feb 1

Agenda  Constructing and Interpreting Stories (Realism vs. Romanticism)  Race: Share Passages  Scholarship and Our Edition / Share Notes on Notes  Looking Ahead: Working on Paper #1  Class in Huck Finn: Share Passages  Gender in Huck Finn: Share Passages  Previewing the Next Stage of the Journey

Identify the speaker…  “Well, if that’s the way, I’m agreed, but I don’t take no stock in it. Mighty soon we’ll have the cave so cluttered up with women, and fellows waiting to be ransomed that there won’t be no place for the robbers. But go ahead, I ain’t got nothing to say…”  A. Huck Fin  B. Ben Rogers  C. Tom Sawyer  D. Jim  E. Pap

Constructing / Interpreting Stories  “What you know about witches” (8)  “It had all the markings of a Sunday school” (17)  “I did wish Tom Sawyer was there, I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of business. Noboby could spread himself like Ton Sawyer in such a thing as that” (41)  “Jim knowed all kinds of signs” (55)  “Now you trot along to your uncle, Sarah Mary Williams George Elexander Peters…” (75)

Share Notes on Notes  Which most interested you and why?  Biographical  Literature / Art  Cultural—history, politics, etc.  Geography

Working on Paper #1  Invention activity due for Tuesday  Developing possible paper topics Developing possible paper topics

Identify the speaker…  “I could see it warn’t no use wasting words—you can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I quit”  A. Huck Fin  B. Judge Thatcher  C. Tom Sawyer  D. Jim  E. Pap

Race  Share passages  Explore this question  What does the text tell us / reveal to us about the ideology of race in nineteenth-century America?ideology

Identify the speaker…  “And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tip-toe, and fetch your hand up over your head, as awkard as you can, and miss your rate about six or seven foot…”  A. Widow Douglass  B. Miss Watson  C. Tom Sawyer  D. Jim  E. Judith Loftus

Gender  Share passages  “Femininity, as Judith Loftus defines it, is something women do, a copmposite activity made up of certain acts they perform well and others they as skillfully perform badly, or perhaps most skillfully not at all…the peformance of femininity includes observing more shrewdly, especially the performance of gender” (Jehlen 269).

Identify the speaker…  “It was lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself, if I warn’t too drunk to git there; but when they told me there was a state in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote agin.”  A. Huck Finn  B. Judge Thatcher  C. Tom Sawyer  D. Jim  E. Pap

Class  Share passages  What does the text tell us about how class works in the nineteenth-century American South?

Preview  Hucks Moral Dilemma  Raft episode / The Child of Calamity  Sheperdson / Grangerford feud