Huck Finn S2LS

Mini-S2LS's

For Huck Finn, I want break up a few sections and turn them over to you guys. Your group will meet and create a lesson that will help us understand your section, but also get us to think about it.
You should get us thinking and talking about your section. Get the class in groups; have a writing question; do a jigsaw; lead a discussion; you could bring in outside reading to complement the book.
These chapters stray from the storyline of Jim and Huck's escape. I want you to consider some issues surrounding them.


Here are the sections divided in a semi-logical form.

1. Grangerfords and Shepherdsons Ch17-18
2. King and Duke introduced chapters 19-21
3. Boggs and Colonel Sherburn ch.21-22
4. King and Duke their productions end of ch. 22-23
5. Jim's role throughout. 17-30
6. King and Duke and the Wilks ch.24-25, 27
7. Huck and the Wilks ch.26, 28
8. Chapters 29& 30 King and Duke leaving

Some questions to consider about all of these sections:
-What happens?
-What passages should we look at?
-Why did Twain include them?
-What does the point of it seem to be?
-To what extent is it Satire?
-What do the people Huck and Jim encounter show about their societies?
-What does it say about the world Huck and Jim escape to in and human nature in General?
-How do Huck and Jim look in contrast to the people o your section?
-You should generate your own questions too

Pick a section and get with the other people interested in the same one. You can go through your section and start formulating a plan. Keep your goal in mind: you should strive to help us better understand the section and get us thinking about what Twain might be up to. (double dangling preposition)

Huck Finn on-line
A Reader's Guide for Huck Finn