Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Text ...



Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Text and Context.

By: Abdelilah Mouayani.

Program: Middle School Students

Subject: Introduction to Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Duration: One week.

Purpose: Enabling students to enjoy the sense of ‘Adventures’ in the novel ,and also use there skills to re-examine Mark Twain as a writer who is also a reader of history and culture—someone who have examined how historical and social realities affect individuals.

Topic: Introduction to the understanding the text and context of the novel.

TOOLS: 1 Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn book.

A big map of United States of America.

The School’s Library Lab.

Learning Objectives:

• Define cultural context and describe aspects of others' contexts as well as their own

• Make conclusions about the text and its period of time and develop the ability to provide convincing evidence to support their conclusions

• Discuss what a "Cultural context" is. Consider before starting the lesson how we will define it, and use this term with students.

• Students will try to identify key-elements of their own cultural contexts, compare their cultural contexts with those of the novel.

• Examining materials that show the difference between the America of Twain's childhood, which heavily influenced the characters and plot of the novel, and the America of the today.

Guided reading:

1. How does a critic's cultural context help explain his or her opinions about book?

2. What influences in Mark twain’s context help explain his novel?

3. Why do we need to know about the works ‘context’ to understand Huckleberry Finn?

Students’ outcome:

1. Students will have an understanding about the meaning of the ‘context’.

2. Students will have a general outlook about the novel: setting, time, characters.

3. Students will have a general outlook about mark twain, his life, his books, and his background.

4. Students will be able to apply, in a simple way, the idea of ‘text and context’ relationship on some of the famous works of literature. In other words, students will be able to contextualize dialogues, in a literary work, into a setting, time period, and characters’ relationships.

Activities / Evaluation:

(Students will be evaluated according to how well they grasped their activities)

1. Students will read some of the key-moments (passages) in the novel and discuss their staging.

2. Students will go to the Library Lab. and search ‘online’ for links to the novel the author.

3. Students will perform some acts on the best dialogues in the novel.

4. Students will draw a map of the Mississippi river and a portrait of Huckleberry Finn.

5. Students will participate in a general review about the whole points of the lesson.

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