Friday, June 6, 2008

Review Assignment

All right guys, here's a chance to be creative and get points for studying for your final.  It's simple really.  Create a visual representation of the things we learned this year.  We brainstormed them on the board this morning so hopefully you wrote them down.  It can be anything from a video to a poster, a mobile to a PowerPoint.  You'll present these on Tuesday to the class.  You may work in pairs, but if you do so, you must check with me first.  This is primarily an individual assignment.  Only one group checked with me today, so I assume the rest of you are working solo. 

 

Have a great weekend.  Only 5 days left!!!!

Mackenzie, do you want to finally do your memorization on Monday?  If anyone else hasn't gone and wants to fix that, lets go Monday.

14 comments:

  1. Me and amanda want to be partners if that is alright?

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  2. Sure. what are you planning to do? Typically people partner to do something more elaborate than a poster. What's the plan? You can email me if you'd rather talk about your plans off line (in case they are top secret). ;)

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  3. my missing assignment is up!! finally....:D

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  4. Whoo hoo, unfortunately, I still have more of them to go so if you have something that isn't up yet, I'm still working on it. ;)

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  5. Hey, I was just wondering if we are getting Monday's class period to work on our project?

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  6. We can have part of it. We will look at one of the Hemingway stories in that packet and talk briefly about his style (there will be a bit on the test concerning him), but otherwise we can use class time to work on the project, though many people will likely be in the position that they can't work on it at school depending on the form their project is taking.

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  7. who was G.G., Chief of Ordnance?

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  8. actually can i have extra credit if i find out??? lol :)
    unless you already know....you know..

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  9. Notably, this warning was not signed by "The Author," but rather by his agent writing on the author's behalf. These are ostensibly not the author's words, but the words of "G. G.," who posts them much as he would a "No Trespassing" sign, by order of the author. So who is "G. G." and why is he given the title "Chief of Ordnance?" Our best guess in 1985 was that the mysterious initials were a somewhat guarded reference to Mark Twain's hero and friend General Ulysses S. Grant, a conjecture that has long since seemed inadequate.

    For the new edition, we had access for the first time to Mark Twain's manuscript of this "NOTICE." It showed, among other things, that he toyed with the idea of identifying "G. G." as "Chief of Artillery." This small detail established that the purpose of the title was to indicate that "G. G." had the fire-power to carry out his threats. Still, the identity of "G.G." remained stubbornly mysterious, until editor Lin Salamo suggested that the initials were a private joke, and that they stood not for the very public figure of General Grant, but for George Griffin, the Clemenses' butler and chief factotum from 1875 to 1891—an idea that could be strongly corroborated, if not actually proven.

    http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/bancroftiana/117/newhuck.html

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  10. haha yea that's what i found when i googled it. something from the mark twain project. thanx though.

    lol so much for extra credit huh : /

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  11. Yeah, I was just curious enough to cut and paste it into Google... ;)

    Basically no one is 100% sure, but the butler thing is right up Twain's alley as far as his sense of humor goes.

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  12. the story they gave only seemed like a hunch so yea i figured i'd ask maybe getting a more exact answer. but it seems pretty close for a researched guess.

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  13. Giddings...
    I feel like a broken record and im sorry...
    what should i do if hypothetically speaking....
    I was gone tommorow at 9am to the tacoma dome to set up sound for graduation....

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  14. I'll talk to you in a bit. We'll work something out.

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