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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Unit

Disposition: Inter-Relationships and Self-Reliance

Themes:

❖ Integrity

❖ Every person deserves to be free

❖ At times, the strong bite of satire presents truth more effectively than other forms of writing do

Readings/Articles/Media:

❖ The Incredibles/Seinfeld video clips

❖ “The Good Samaritan”

❖ “A Modest Proposal”

❖ “Hunters of Men”

❖ Excerpt from The Fugitive Slave Act

❖ “On the Damned Human Race”

❖ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Unit Breakdown:

❖ 2 projects

❖ 6 focus questions

❖ 8 quickwrites

Essential Questions:

❖ What criteria do I use to judge my values?

❖ What compromises of my integrity will I make in order to be accepted?

❖ How can I discover the truth about others?

❖ What sacrifices will I make for the truth?

❖ How do I communicate the truth? What voice do I use to be heard?

❖ What roles does empathy play in how I treat others?

❖ What prejudices are we taught?

This is what you need to focus on while reading, writing, and learning throughout this unit (

Forms of Writing:

❖ definition and example

❖ problem and solution

❖ compare and contrast

Reading Strategies:

❖ inference

❖ main idea

❖ subheading/bullets

Elements of Writing:

❖ satire

❖ humor

❖ tone (humorous, playful, academic, informal)

❖ analysis

❖ motif

❖ vernacular

❖ symbolism

❖ purpose

❖ conclusion

❖ onomatopoeia

❖ allusion

❖ simile

❖ vivid verbs

❖ predictability

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