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From the Reticules to the Sublime
Well, here's a game for you for a snowy afternoon: below is a list of words from Huckleberry Finn. You have to sort them into categories. Ready to play? Here are the instructions:
1) The categories are: Things You Wear, Things on the River, Household Items, and Other.
2) Once you've determined your "Other" category, try to find 2-3 categories to split those words into. Be creative. Creativity gets you points.
3) Once your done with this game--and please note this isn't a particularly quick game unless you are TRULY not busy--submit your answers to my comments section.
4) Don't cheat by using a dictionary. Unless you want to, of course, but it's less fun that way.
5) I recommend printing out this page and checking them off as you go--there are a lot of words to keep track of and I don't recommend marking them off on the computer screen.
6) Winner gets to give me a website to link to over there where I do that.
7) Remember, the winner isn't necessarily who's quickest. Creativity will be rewarded.
Are you ready to play?
beaver, bowie, bullyrag, calico, capered, chaw, chucklehead, corn-pone, cravats, craw, crockery, curry-comb, derrick, dog-irons, doxolojer, fan-tods, flapdoodle, fox-fire, frock, frowsy-headed, galluses, garret, goggle, greenhorns, hogshead, ingots, jackstaff, numskull, ornery, pallet, passel, pettish, pilot-house, pommel, pone, powderhorn, pungle, rapscallion, rascality, raspy, reticule, roundabout, rushes, scow, skiff, slouch, slough, sluice, snag, soundings, spondulicks, spyglass, stanchion, stateroom, stern, stile, sublime, sumter, tallow, tanyard, texas, towhead, truck, victuals, whetstone, wigwam, yawl
January 26, 2005 | Permalink
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What'd you have a snow day today or something?
btw, is it me or does the character of Tom Sawyer come perilously close to ruining one of the finest novels the English language has ever produced?
Posted by: GregoryT | Jan 26, 2005 3:31:06 PM
I hate to tell the people playing the game, but this is similar to one of my recent lesson plans...
Huck Finn is a quirky book. The Tom Sawyer parts of it are definitely annoying and seem out-of-synch with the rest of the story.
But what do I know?...
Posted by: Joe | Jan 26, 2005 3:56:49 PM
Yeah, I hate Tom Sawyer in HF. But the passage in which HF decides to damn himself to hell by helping his friend Jim is one of my favorites in all of American lit.
...but here I am, derailing your fine game. My great uncle wore a beaver-skin hat, so I'm declaring the first word "Things You Wear."
Posted by: GregoryT | Jan 26, 2005 4:07:30 PM
Flapdoodle is one of my favorite words.
You guys are tough on Tom. He gets all his ideas -- like the one for the infamous robber gang -- from books.
He is the dreamer, Huck is the doer. Book learning vs. natural learning. Tom is the ultimate foil for Huck.
Cut Tom some slack.
Posted by: Scott Brodeur | Jan 28, 2005 9:41:39 AM
If you cut Tom some slack you'll end up spending days on an "adventure" instead of freeing Jim.
But that's okay.
I think, structurally, the novel can be problematic and I think that the Tom Sawyer part is more of a shout out to his previous readers than an intrinsic part of the novel.
Posted by: Joe | Jan 28, 2005 5:09:43 PM
Tom's adventures -- like the robber gang -- always seem to fizzle and lose momentum. There would have still been time to rescue Jim.
Posted by: Scott Brodeur | Jan 31, 2005 5:12:40 PM
As in, " you've really shit your galluses this time"
Posted by: | Feb 3, 2005 3:53:36 PM
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