This guide highlights some of the most salient aspects of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn before you begin teaching. In helping guide your students through the text, they will be...

Learning Objectives: By the end of this unit, students should be able to explain why Huckleberry Finn has been a controversial book since its early publication and has been and continues...

So you’re going to teach Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a classic novel that has been a mainstay in English classes for generations. Whether it’s the first or hundredth time you escort...

Sample Prompts: Huck is sometimes an unreliable narrator—a kind of narrator that tells parts of his own story inaccurately. In Huck’s case, these inaccuracies usually happen because he fails to...

Character Revealed Through Conflict: This lesson plan focuses on how Huckleberry Finn’s character is revealed through his relationship with Tom Sawyer and through the conflicts...

Tom Sawyer was published in 1876, but it is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Which details from the beginning of the novel help to establish this time period...

Tom Sawyer Mark Twain What is it? Descriptive writing vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience. It...

Throughout the book, Huck tells several “stretchers,” or lies.What are two of the best/most effective lies he tells? Why is Huck so good at lying? In what ways can Jim be seen as Huck’s “true...

HUCK FINN PROJECT SHEET Below are your choices for the project regarding the novel. Choose one of the following and do it to the best of your ability. Read all of the requirements and know that you...

PART I: Paragraph Answer (50 points) Answer the following questions in well-developed paragraphs. Use lined paper to write your answers. How does Twain use satire to expose and criticize human...

Your assignment is to write an essay about a quotation or a symbol from the novel. You will pick one quotation or symbol and analyze the importance of your choice in understanding the meaning of...