The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn English 10

Assignments and Activities: adapted from a variety of sources including colleagues past and present

BEFORE:

• Go on a Mark Twain Scavenger Hunt!
• Dialect exercise based on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• More difficult dialect exercise, for extra credit, based on a dialect from Guyana, S. America.
• Parenting Questionnaire
• Check out some of the Huck Finn or Twain "Links" at the bottom of this page.

DURING:

• Study Guides to Huck, Jim, Morality, Prejudice and Class. These will help you prepare your analytical essay as you read rather than after finishing the novel.
• Literary Terms applicable to the novel.
• Tracing Huck's journey. Look at a real map of the area (you can zoom in or out to see it better) and then make your own map which illustrates Huck's adventures along his journey.

AFTER:

• Analytical essay resulting from one of the Study Guides (above) or select a different topic.
• Past A.P. questions that one could answer using The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Creative Writing ideas springing from the novel.
• How well do you know Huck? "What If . . ."
• Do a creative project springing from the "Links" below.

• The entire book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, online: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer%2Dnew%3Fid=Twa2Huc%26tag=public%26images=images/modeng%26data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed%26part=0
• A Resource page for Huck Finn: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/huchompg.html
• A Guide to Online Resources for Huck Finn: http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/huckleberry_finn.html
• Maps for Huck Finn: http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/hf_maps.html
• The Controversy about the novel: http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/hf_debate.html

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• Mark Twain Resource Page: http://salwen.com/mtcyber.html
• Biography of Mark Twain: http://www.hannibal.net/twain/biography/
• Twain's Home in Connecticut including a virtual tour: http://www.marktwainhouse.org/
• Mark Twain Quotations, famous sayings and one-liners: http://www.twainquotes.com/
• The Quotable Mark Twain: http://salwen.com/mtquotes.html
• Mark Twain Photo Gallery: http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/pictures.html
• Video clips of Mark Twain and Twain imposters: http://www.hannibal.net/twain/multimedia/video/

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  FOR TEACHERS:	online resources: http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/ht_teaching.html
  	A creative writing lesson called "Creating Composite Characters, Like Those of Mark Twain:" http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/010427friday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons

  website created by Cate Waidyatilleka, Iolani School, Honolulu, Hawaii comments or questions: cwaidyat@iolani.org