The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 308-page novel unit for Mark Twain's classic. Aligned to the Common Core State Standards for grades 9-12, there is more than enough to choose from in this comprehensive unit, depending upon your desired learning outcomes and the amount of time you have to spend teaching Huck Finn. Over 70 5-Star Reviews, and tested by over 800 teachers!
Perfect for in-class or student-directed distance learning, this product is a printable PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.
This Literature Guide for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn includes:
Texts and Pre-Reading Activities to engage students and to support and introduce themes and context before reading
✅ Biography on author Mark Twain, followed by Comprehension Check questions
✅ Anticipation/Reaction Guide and Reflection
✅ List of Essay and Writing Prompts
✅ List of Pre-Reading Ideas and Activities
✅ List of Post-Reading Alternative Assessment Ideas
✅ Glossary of Allusions and Unique Terms
✅ Vocabulary Lists: one with and one without definitions
✅ Comprehension and Analysis Questions
✅ Informational Text on Genre: Historical Fiction
✅ Informational Text on Slavery throughout History
✅ Informational Text on Slavery in America: The 1500s to the early 1800s
✅ Informational Text on Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
Novel-based Literary Analysis Activities that support student practice in text analysis and close reading and dig deeper into the text, specifically, activities on:
✴️ Identifying Motifs
✴️ Comparing Nineteenth-Century Works with Similar Topics
✴️ Bildungsroman
✴️ Satire
✴️ Romantic Poetry
✴️ Figurative Language, Imagery, and Mood
✴️ Analyzing the Significance of Setting
✴️ Recognizing Allusions to Shakespeare
Novel-based Writing Activities that support student practice, specifically on:
✴️ Introducing and Developing Your Claim
✴️ Writing an Essay Of Argumentation
✴️ Organizing Your Argumentative Essay
✴️ Finishing Your Argumentative Essay
✴️ Writing a Descriptive Paragraph in a Narrative
✴️ Establishing Mood in Narrative Writing
✴️ Writing Vivid Descriptions
✴️ Using Dialect in Writing
✴️ Personal Narrative
✴️ Writing a Response to Literature
Standards-Based Language & Grammar lessons, including:
✴️ Understanding Clauses
✴️ Semicolons
✴️ Consulting Digital References to Define Historical Terms
✴️ Hyphens
✴️ Using Dashes and Identifying Rhetorical Devices
✴️ Dialect
✴️ Determining Etymologies of Words
✴️ Figurative Language, Imagery, and Mood
✅ Reading Quizzes
✅ Vocabulary Quizzes
✅ Two Final Exam Options; one entirely Multiple Choice
✅ Teacher’s Guide, including:
- Sample Agenda
- Notes to the Teacher
- Supplemental Resource List
- Project Rubrics
- Answer Key
- Common Core Alignment Documentation