Teaching Objective: Students will use individual and combined class notes to answer the questions on Tom Sawyer Chapters 1-9, to be scored on accuracy.
Correct Thursday’s starter
Dylan, my best friend, doesn’t like swimming, but I think that it’s fun.
Starter: Diagram this week’s sentence.
Journal: The old cliché “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me,” infers that mean words don’t hurt. In the novel Tom also says, “Talk don’t hurt.” Write an introductory argumentative paragraph – use a strong lead, state a claim, and give three pieces of evidence to support your claim. Write paragraph #2 (5-7 sentences), detailing evidence #1 stated in your introductory paragraph.
Score: Tom Sawyer Ch. 7-9 Handout /20 on completion (I will not accept this late, but I encourage completing it. It can be used on the quiz on Monday).
KEY – Ch. 7-9, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1 pt.
Name Trait Story Connection/Role
*Tom Sawyer inventive, murder witness
*Joe Harper inventive, Tom’s best friend
*Becky Thatcher gullible, naïve, jealous Tom’s fiance’
*Sid observant, Tom’s half brother
*Huck Finn earful, murder witness
*Muff Potter drunk, dazed, blamed for killing Dr.
*Injun Joe revengeful, liar murderer
*Dr. Robinson resourceful, death develops plot
Chapter
*Tom and (1) JOE (2) HARPER play with the (3) TICK Tom traded Huck for his tooth.
*Tom and his best friend begin to (4) FIGHT and the teacher whacks both of them.
*At lunch Tom persuades (5) BECKY to “get engaged.” They say, “I love you” and kiss. Tom
reveals he was previously engaged to (6) AMY (7) LAWRENCE . Becky cries and refuses
to accept the brass (8)ANDIRON knob Tom offers her, and Tom runs off upset.
Chapter 8
*Tom wanders about in a forest wishing he could temporarily (1) DIE so Becky will be sorry. Tom thinks about being a (2) CLOWN, then a soldier, or joining the Indians, so he can go away for a long time and then suddenly return. He decides on becoming a (3) PIRATE.
*Tom tries a charm to locate his lost (4) MARBLES. He encounters Joe Harper. They play(5) ROBIN (6) HOOD and go home deciding “they would rather be outlaws a year than (7) PRESIDENT of the United States.”
Chapter 9
*Tom sneaks out of bed and goes to the (1) GRAVEYARD with Huck. They hide a few feet fromthe fresh grave of Hoss Williams and wait for (2) DEVILS to appear. Three figures approach. They believe they are the devils but they turn out to be Dr. (3) ROBINSON, Muff (4) POTTER, and (5) INJUN Joe.
*Dr. Robinson orders the other two men to dig up the corpse presumably for use in
(6) MEDICAL experiments. When they are finished (7) POTTER demands extra payment and
Dr. (8) ROBINSON refuses.
*(9) INJUN (10) JOE reminds Robinson of an incident that happened years earlier,when he came begging at the Robinson’s kitchen door and was turned away.
*A fight breaks out. Dr. Robinson knocks (11) INJUN (12) JOE down and then is attacked by (13) POTTER. Robinson uses Hoss William’s (14) HEADSTONE to defend himself knocking (15) POTTER unconscious. In the scuffle, (16) INJUN (17) JOE stabs Dr. (18) ROBINSON with (19) POTTER’s knife.
*The (20) BOYS run without being seen. When (21) POTTER awakens (22) INJUN (23) JOE tells him he stabbed Dr. Robinson in a (24) DRUNKEN fury. Potter, still dazed, believes him. *Before they part ways (25) INJUN (26) JOE promises (27) POTTER he won’t tell anyone about the crime.
*Injun Joe notes smugly that Potter’s (28) KNIFE remains stuck in the (29) CORPSE.
Main Ideas - Consider all of the events to give each chapter a new title.
1. A new title for Chapter 7 could be: FUN TO A FIGHT / TICK-RUNNING AND A HEARTBREAK
2. A new title for Chapter 8 could be: DISTANCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER /
3. A new title for Chapter 9 could be: MURDER IN THE GRAVEYARD
Figurative Language
In the sentence “The air was utterly dead. There was not a breath stirring,” (1) AIR is being personified. It is being personified because (2) AIR DOESN’T DIE.
In the simile “The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees,” (3) SCHOLARS are being compared to (4) BEES. The simile means (5) THE SCHOLARS’ MURMURING MAKES THE SOUND OF BUZZING BEES.
“He had meant the very best in the world and been treated like a dog,” is an example of
which kind of figurative language? (6) SIMILE
To change a simile to a metaphor sometimes it is as simple as taking out the comparison words (7) LIKE or (8) AS. Sometimes it requires a little more changing of words.
Using novel content based ideas, rewrite “He had meant the very best in the world and been treated like a dog” so it becomes a metaphor. (9) TOM BELIEVES HE IS A DOG IN THE EYES OF BECKY.
Pair Share: Today’s journal
Reading: Individual novel
Upcoming: Tom Sawyer Ch 1-9 with open handout notes
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