Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twains The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn

• A Lesson Plan by
• Jean Swiecicki
• April 2004

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Ernest Hemingway stated, All modern American
literature comes from one book by Mark Twain,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Session 1 - Primary sources
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Evaluate specific primary sources
related to the Civil War

• Maps
• Photographs
• Music

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Library of Congress

• www.loc.gov
• American Memory Collection
• Americas Library

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How do we evaluate the primary sources?

• http//www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/
  analysis_worksheets/map.html/
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/twa
  in/photo.html
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/twa
  in/music.html

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Sharing Time

• Ease of navigating website
• What do you know now?
• Helpful hints

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Session 2 Group Work Search the LOC for
primary sources that connect to Mark
Twain

• Maps?
• Mississippi River?
• Steamboats?
• Sheet music?
• Other books by Twain?
• Slavery
• Twains home?

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American author Mark Twain

• Family life
• Haleys Comet
• Humorist
• Quotes
• Hannibal, MO

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Work together!

• Outline
• Delegate
• Prepare
• Present

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Session 3 Presentation Time!

• 1. Share your observations
• 2. Present visual
• 3. Q A

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Ernest Hemingway stated, All modern American
literature comes from one book by Mark Twain,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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IT IS DONE!