Y'all must be forlorn that school's closed today.
Cue the return of the blog:
Lesson Aim:
Finish the novel:
Summary of what happens:
Tom continues to plot a ridiculously elaborate and adventurous escape. They do get Jim out but Tom gets shot by angry locals (who Tom himself informs to add to the excitement).
Jim heroically looks after Tom until a doctor comes and then he is recaptured. The doctor sticks up for Jim who the locals want to whip or hang.
When Tom feels better he reveals that Jim was free all the time anyway, because Miss Watson freed him in her will.
Now focus on these pages:
1- how Tom and Huck freed Jim, only for Tom to be shot and Jim recaptured (pages 347-9)2- how Tom reveals that Jim was already free anyway (page 365)3- Chapter the Last
Consider "Chapter the Last" as an extract for coursework. There are a lot of aspects of escape in it- real escape, symbolic escape. Annotate these.
It also has Huck's narrative voice and dialogue to analyse and compare to Holden. Compare it to the last chapter of "Catcher" in terms of theme and language (narrator, dialect, symbolism....)
Best thing you can do really is to find a couple of extracts you want to compare and start to notices similarities and differences in terms of theme and language.
On Friday we will be looking at an "A" grade coursework example
I am going to ask you to list what the student does, so that you could start to build a structure for your own.
