Sample file. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Complete Literature Guide

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1 Complete Literature Guide Table of Contents About this Literature Guide 3 Sample Agenda 4 Pre-Reading Activities and Preparation Anticipation/ Reaction Guide 5 Author Biography: Mark Twain 7 Standards Focus: Exploring Expository Writing 8 Vocabulary List 9 Chapters 1-3 Comprehension Check: True or False 10 Standards Focus: Subgenre Satire 11 Vocabulary Building: Word Search 12 Chapters 4-7 Comprehension Check: Matching and Short Response 13 Standards Focus: Jargon and Slang 14 Vocabulary Building: Acrostic 15 Chapters 8-11 Comprehension Check: Multiple Choice 16 Standards Focus: Setting 17 Vocabulary Building: From the Text 18 Chapters Comprehension Check: Sentence Completion 20 Standards Focus: Narrator and Point of View 21 Vocabulary Building: Context Clues 22 Chapters Comprehension Check: Order and Sequence 23 Standards Focus: Tone 24 Vocabulary Building: Analogies 26 Chapters Comprehension Check: Cause and Effect Relationships 27 Standards Focus: Recognizing Vivid Details 28 Vocabulary Building: Crossword 29 Chapters Comprehension Check: Deciding True or False 30 Standards Focus: Character Types 31 Vocabulary Building: Matching 32 Chapters Comprehension Check: Short Response 33 Standards Focus: Mapping 34 Vocabulary Building: Spelling 35 Chapters Check for Understanding: Matching 36 Standards Focus: Theme 37 Vocabulary Building: Sentence Construction 38 Quizzes Chapters Chapters Chapters Chapters Final Test 43 Teacher Guide Pre-Reading/Post Reading and Alternative Assessment 46 Essay/Writing Ideas 47 Sample Project Rubric 48 Sample Response to Literature Rubric 49 Answer Key Secondary Solutions 2

2 About This Literature Guide Secondary Solutions is the endeavor of a high school English teacher who could not seem to find appropriate materials to help her students master the necessary concepts at the secondary level. She grew tired of spending countless hours researching, creating, writing, and revising lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes, tests and extension activities to motivate and inspire her students, and at the same time, address those ominous content standards! Materials that were available were either juvenile in nature, skimpy in content, or were moderately engaging activities that did not come close to meeting the content standards on which her students were being tested. Frustrated and tired of trying to get by with inappropriate, inane lessons, she finally decided that if the right materials were going to be available to her and other teachers, she was going to have to make them herself! Mrs. Bowers set to work to create one of the most comprehensive and innovative Literature Guide sets on the market. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions began, and has matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed for you a set of materials unsurpassed by all others. Before the innovation of Secondary Solutions, materials that could be purchased offered a reproducible student workbook and a separate set of teacher materials at an additional cost. Other units provided the teacher with student materials only, and very often, the content standards were ignored. Secondary Solutions provides all of the necessary materials for complete coverage of the literature units of study, including author biographies, pre-reading activities, numerous and varied vocabulary and comprehension activities, study-guide questions, graphic organizers, literary analysis and critical thinking activities, essay-writing ideas, extension activities, quizzes, unit tests, alternative assessment, online teacher assistance, and much, much more. Each guide is designed to address the unique learning styles and comprehension levels of every student in your classroom. All materials are written and presented at the grade level of the learner, and include extensive coverage of the content standards. As an added bonus, all teacher materials are included! As a busy teacher, you don t have time to waste reinventing the wheel. You want to get down to the business of teaching! With our professionally developed teacher-written literature guides, Secondary Solutions has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, while saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work. Our guides will allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most the reason you became a teacher in the first place! Secondary Solutions--The First Solution for the Secondary Teacher! 2005 Secondary Solutions 3

3 Sample Agenda Depending upon the level of your students, these worksheets and activities can be completed in approximately 4 to 8 weeks. The following is a sample 6-week plan. Week One Anticipation/Reaction Guide Author Biography: Mark Twain Standards Focus: Exploring Expository Writing Introduce Vocabulary List Read Chapters 1-3 Comprehension Check: True or False Standards Focus: Subgenre Satire Vocabulary Worksheet: Word Search Week Two Read Chapters 4-7 Comprehension Check: Matching and Short Response Standards Focus: Jargon and Slang Vocabulary Building: Acrostic Read Chapters 8-11 Comprehension Check: Multiple Choice Standards Focus: Setting Vocabulary Building: From the Text Quiz Chapters 1-11 Week Three Read Chapters Comprehension Check: Sentence Completion Standards Focus: Narrator and Point of View Vocabulary Building: Context Clues Read Chapters Comprehension Check: Order and Sequence Standards Focus: Tone Vocabulary Building: Analogies Quiz Chapters Week Four Read Chapters Comprehension Check: Cause and Effect Relationships Standards Focus: Recognizing Vivid Details Vocabulary Building: Crossword Read Chapters Comprehension Check: Deciding True or False Standards Focus: Character Types Vocabulary Building: Matching Quiz Chapters Week Five Read Chapters Comprehension Check: Short Response Standards Focus: Mapping Vocabulary Building: Spelling Read Chapters Check for Understanding: Matching Standards Focus: Theme Vocabulary Building: Developing Sentences Quiz Chapters Week Six Catch up/review for Final Test Final Test 2005 Secondary Solutions 4

4 Name Anticipation/Reaction Guide Period Directions: Before reading the novel, write yes if you agree with the statement, no if you disagree with the statement, and? if you don t have a strong opinion about the statement. Yes = I agree No = I disagree? = I don t know Pre-Reading Statement Post-Reading 1) The n-word is inappropriate and racist and should never be used. 2) Most human beings always strive to do the right thing. 3) To be needed by another person is important. 4) Having dreams for the future is a necessary part of life and helps us to fulfill our goals. 5) Books should never be banned from school libraries or from school s reading lists. 6) People of different ages or races can never be true friends. 7) It is always better for children to live with and be raised by their own parents rather than anyone else. 8) Freedom means different things to different people. 9) It is more important to be a part of the group than to be an individual. Directions: After completing the Before Reading column, get into small groups. Each group should then make a chart like the one below, numbering from 1-9. Tally the number of yes, no and? responses for each question. Once you have collected your data, discuss those issues about which your group was divided. Make your case for your opinions, and pay attention to your classmates arguments. When you have finished, answer the questions on the next page on your own. Statement #1 Yes No I Don t Know #2 *Once you have completed the chart and answered the questions on the following page, your teacher will collect your responses and keep them until you finish reading the novel.* 2005 Secondary Solutions 5

5 Name Period Anticipation/Reaction Guide Pre-Reading Individual Reflection Directions: Respond to your Before Reading discussion, answering the following questions on a separate piece of paper. Be sure to use complete sentences. 1. Which statement triggered the most thought-provoking or interesting discussion? 2. Summarize the discussion/debate. 3. For any of the statements that you discussed, what were some of the strongest or most memorable points made by your group members? Why do you think they were the strongest or most memorable to you? 4. How did you feel when a group member disagreed with the way you feel about an issue? 5. Was any argument strong enough to make you change your mind or want to change any of your initial responses? Why or why not? Post-Reading Individual Reflection Directions: Revisit your Anticipation/Reaction Guide and your answers to the discussion questions. Now that you have read the novel, complete the After Reading column and answer the following questions on a separate piece of paper, comparing your responses. Answer each question using complete sentences. 1. How many of your responses have changed since reading the novel? 2. Which statements do you see differently after having read the novel? 3. Describe an important part of the novel that affected you or made you think differently after reading. 4. In small groups, talk to some of your classmates about their responses. How do their responses differ after reading the novel? 5. Overall, are the feelings of your other group members the same or different from yours? Do any of their responses surprise you? Which ones? How? 6. Why do you think there might be so many different opinions and viewpoints? What do you feel has contributed to the way you and your other classmates responded to each statement? 2005 Secondary Solutions 6

6 Name Period Author Biography: Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote under the pen name of Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, He was the son of lawyer John Marshall Clemens and Jane (Langdon) Clemens, and had three surviving siblings: Orion, Pamela and younger brother Henry. In 1839, John Clemens moved his family to Hannibal, Missouri the town in which Samuel would spend much of his early life. Clemens s schooling was brief; he quit at the age of 12 after his father died and Samuel was needed to help sustain the household. He apprenticed as a printer until 1850, when his brother Orion bought a small newspaper company in Hannibal. Samuel worked beside his brother out of the Clemens home, and it was through working on this newspaper that Samuel began to sharpen his craft as a writer. Later, after a brief stay in New York and Philadelphia, Clemens decided he wanted to go to Brazil, and set out for New Orleans to catch a South-American bound steamship. Clemens quickly got a taste for life on the Mississippi, decided to become a steamboat pilot, and decided to pick up a new trade. Clemens worked as a pilot for 3 years, learning everything he could about the Mississippi River and steamboat piloting. Then, in 1861, the Civil War broke out and Clemens found his loyalties with the South. He returned to Hannibal and enlisted as a soldier, and was quickly promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. However, his stint as a soldier was short. Clemens resigned at the end of two rough weeks, and joined his brother Orion who was a Union abolitionist working under President Lincoln, and ironically, fighting against the South. Clemens eventually moved to San Francisco, where he earned his living writing for several newspapers. It was at this time that Clemens wrote The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, which was published in the Saturday Press in It was after spending several years traveling as a speaker and writer that Clemens first saw a photo of the woman who would become his wife, Olivia (Livy) Langdon. Samuel and Olivia were married on February 2, 1869, and almost immediately after, he received a royalty check for his first book, a collection of popular political and social letters called The Innocents Abroad. However, the first few years of marriage were devastating after sickness, death and other troubles darkened their lives. Their first child, Langdon, died at the age of two in 1872, the same year Samuel published Roughing It. In 1872 daughter Susan was born, and Samuel continued to travel, often taking his family with him. Their second daughter, Clara, was born in 1874, and their third, Jean, was born in As Samuel settled into family life in Hartford, Connecticut, he began his most prolific time as a writer. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876, Life on the Mississippi in 1883, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in In 1884, Clemens founded his own publishing company, Charles L. Webster & Company. The company was successful for over ten years, but after several financial setbacks, the company declared bankruptcy in In order for his family to stave off personal bankruptcy, Clemens moved the family to Europe. He was eventually able to pay his debts by conducting an international reading tour. In 1896, the Clemens family was dealt yet another blow, however, with the death their oldest daughter. In 1900, they settled again in New York, their debts finally paid in full. After Livy became ill, Clemens moved his family to warmer weather under doctor s orders. Olivia died in Florence, Italy in In 1907, Clemens received an honorary degree from Oxford University. His daughter Jean died in 1909, and her death seriously affected his health. Clemens died of heart failure on April 21, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut, and was buried in Elmira, New York Secondary Solutions 7