Honors 4830 Weber Reads Tom and Huck
Class Schedule
(subject to change with notification)
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class sessions |
campus presentations 12:30 PM in Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein Room unless otherwise noted |
community presentations 7:00 PM in various Weber County Library locations |
| January 5 - Introductions | January 7 Mark Twain interviewed by Charlie Trentelman, Pleasant Valley Branch |
| January 12 "Twain and his Times: the Gilded Age" We will meet at 1:30 for short discussion |
| January 19 - Discussion of Powers biography 1st response paper due |
January 21 "Absent Fathers/Dangerous Fathers: Tom, Huck, and Finn," Main Branch |
| January 26 "The Life and Times of Huckleberry Finn" We will meet at 1:30 for short discussion |
January 28 Mark Twain for Children, bilingual story time (6:00 PM), Main Branch |
| February 2 - Discussion of Powers biography
2nd response paper due |
February 4 "Injun Joe: Twain and Native Americans," Ogden Valley Branch |
| February 9 "Challenging Huckleberry Finn" We will meet at 1:30 for short discussion |
| February 16 - Discussion of Tom Sawyer and
Tom Sawyer essays 1st Formal Oral presentation |
February 18 Panel of public school students who have read
Tom and Huck, Main Branch
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February 23 discussion of Tom Sawyer 3rd response paper due |
February 25 "Twain and Times 'Achangin'," bilingual discussion, Main Branch |
| March 2 "The Conscience of Huck" We will meet at 1:30 for short discussion |
| March 9 - Discussion of Huckleberry Finn
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March 11 "Boy Culture in 19th Century America," North Branch | |
| Spring Break March 15-19 |
| March 23 - Discussion of Huckleberry Finn 4th response paper due |
March 25 "The Mississippi River in Twain's Novels," Southwest Branch |
| March 30 Musical selections from Big River We will meet at 1:30 for short discussion |
| 5th response paper due | April 6 "Twain as Public Intellectual" We will meet at 1:30 for short discussion |
| April 13 - "What's with the Ending of Huckleberry Finn?" We will meet at 1:30 for short discussion |
April 15 "Twain and African American Writers," Pleasant Valley Branch |
| April 20 -
12:30 at Karen's Cafe --25th St. Ogden 6th response paper due |