Huckleberry Finn   by Mark Twain

Links

Online Text with Illustrations Illustrating Huckleberry Finn Illustrating Race, Class & Gender: Interactive Gallery Most Frequently Banned Books of the 1990s The Fictional 100 Twain's Comments to Editor Representing Jim: 1885-1985 Rise of Realism

Lesson Plans

Discoveryschool.com Continuing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - students brainstorm endings Project Ideas Questions to Ask Synopsis/Ideas to Highlight Huck Finn in Context - Companion to PBS Special SCORE - Censorship and Huck Finn Teacher Cyberguide - Emancipation Theme Essay Prompt Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn - Teacher's unit plan KidReach - Seven Activities Essay Choices Study Questions Mr. Greenleaf's Advanced Placement Unit - Great teacher resource with literary terms, reading journals, useful even if not teaching Huck Finn Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Vocabulary Classic Texts - Vocabulary National Council of Teachers of English - Over 90 articles, links in PDF form American Literature: A Nation of Visions - Incredible lesson plans, thematic for entire American Literature course Introducing Huck Finn Through Satire Integrative Lesson: Genres of American Literature Should Huckleberry Finn be Banned - Assignment with numerous links

Mark Twain

Mark Twain and Walt Whitman The Quotable Mark Twain A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It - Twain's first attempt at slave dialect Sociable Jimmy - Twain's attempt at boy's voice

Themes/Overview/Chapter Analysis and Summaries

Gradesaver.com - Summary and Analysis Barrons - Summary and Analysis Monkeynotes - Summary and Analysis BookRags Novel Guide Sparknotes - summaries, plot, characters, includes a quiz Study Guide

Critiques

The Reception of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn in 1885. A Controversial Process William Ernest Henley - 1884 - Twain at His Best Brander Matthews - 1885 - Humor/Not for girls Hartford Courant - 1885 - Wonder of Mississippi Life -1885 - Sarcasm - where's the humor Boston Evening Traveller - 1885 - Cover is as bad as book San Francisco Examiner - 1885 - Little to be said in its favor Boston Daily Advertiser - 1885 - Worrisome and labored The Trial of Huckleberry Finn - 1996 - Script of trial

Essays

Is Huck Finn a Racist Book? Teaching Huckleberry Finn Spike Lee's Huckleberry Finn Lonesomeness in Huckleberry Finn Compare Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn The Huck Finn Symposium Essay by Justin Eichenblaub Ben Ring - Individuality