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Introducing Huckleberry Finn

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Twelfth graders watch a tape of a Leno or Letterman monologue to discover different things that are being satirized. They write their own school satire before reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn so that they see how Mark Twain used satire.

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Grade
12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
Instructional Strategy
Research
Technology
Video
Year
1998
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Study Guide

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Packet

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Worksheet

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Unit Plan

Weber Reads: The Adventures of Huckleberry FInn

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Satire and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Does Mark Twain’s satire become sarcasm and does he cross the line of propriety in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? As an introduction of satire, class members view an excerpt from The Daily Show and discuss Stewart's use of this...
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Lesson Plan

Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context

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Activity

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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Analyzing Social Commentary in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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