Huck

1. Teammates 1. Teammates 2. Articles (various levels) 2. Articles (various levels) Branch Rickey Branch Rickey Vance Lombardi Vance Lombardi Dan Haskins Dan Haskins Pee Wee Reese Pee Wee Reese Thaddeous Stevens (Optional ) Thaddeous Stevens (Optional ) Charles Sumner (Optional ) Charles Sumner (Optional ) James Groppi (Optional ) James Groppi (Optional )
 * HUCK FINN ONLINE TEXT **
 * // Huck Finn Ladder //**
 * // Theme: Courage to go against society in the context of racism //**
 * Ladder 1 Ladder 2 **

3. Song: “If I Had a Hammer” 3. Song: “If I Had a Hammer” __To Be a Slave__ (dialect) __To Be a Slave__ (dialect)

4. Song: “We Shall Overcome” 4. Song: “We Shall Overcome” __To Be a Slave__ (dialect) __To Be a Slave__ (dialect)

5. Huck Finn 5.Four choices __ Huck Finn Graphic Novel __ __Time to Kill__ __The Help__ __Alex Crosses the Trial__

Mini Lessons to Teach..... What are the targets? Theme is one, but what other English skills are you going to address? Teach mini lessons using Huck as your example and have all the students find those examples in their books. Example Mini-lesson... Theme- Rules and Order- Have all students find an example of rules and order demonstrated in their books. Each student will need to share their quote in a Google Form. In a whole group setting share the quotes and discuss the theme.

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=Making Huck Finn Pop:=

=[|New York Times]= [|Racial Epithet] [|ABC News]

Books to consider for the future __ Deep In Our Hearts: Nine White Women In the Freedom Movement __

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[|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] - complete book in mp3 audio by chapter - listen online or download and listen later, totally free! [|Original pictures from the first edition of Huck Finn]- organized by chapter

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=Independent Novels that mesh with themes in Huckleberry Finn:=

Ayres, Katherine, //Stealing South: A Story of the Underground Railroad.// When 16-year-old Will seeks his fortune as a peddler in Ohio, he is asked by a run-away slave to help two other slaves in Kentucky reach safety in Canada.

Carbine, Elisa. //Stealing Freedom.// The daughter of a slave mother and a freeman father in Maryland, 13-year-old Anna Maria Weems undertakes a long journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad in 1853.

Farmer, Nancy. //The House of the Scorpion.// Matt, the young clone of a sinister drug lord El Patron, must first fight for his identity and then struggle to avoid being murdered in a country called Opium.

Lasky, Kathryn. //True North: A Novel of the Underground Railroad.// A young slave girl named Afrika runs away to Canada with the aid of the 14-year-old girl in Boston who discovers that members of her family are helping runaway slaves.

Pearsall, Shelly. Trouble Don't Last

Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed

Spooner, Michael. Daniel's Walk

Nat Hentoff's The Day They Came to Arrest the Book. A novel to introduce the censorship dilemma of Huckleberry Finn.