You read Chapter 12, right?

Chapter 12

Where are Huck and Jim hiding?  What are they discussing?

Explain at least three of the exceptional characteristics of Huck and Jim’s Raft.

What major city do they pass as they travel on the river?  How can they tell what it is?

How does Huckleberry get supplies for Jim and himself?

On the fifth night below St. Louis, what do they discover?  Explain the situation as thoroughly as you are able.

What do Jim and Huck decide to do about the “situation”?

What predicament are they left in, at the close of the chapter?
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Take notes on chapters 13 and 14- include analysis

Homework- Read chapter 15.

Quiz tomorrow- chapters 9-15 (essay)

Chapter's 9-11

Chapter 9

A.      Find the paragraph and write the beginning sentence of that paragraph for the following items in Chapter 9:

1.       Cave described as a man-made architecture.

2.       Poetic description of the storm

3.       Companionship of Huck and Jim

4.       Nature as a companion

B.      After you have located these passages, explain the significance of the passage to the themes we have explored so far in the novel

C.      Explain the discovery that Huck and Jim make in chapter 9- include at least 5 details about this discovery.

Chapter 10

List at least three things in chapter 10 that, generally, bring bad luck.  Also, include what the specific consequences are for these things that bring bad luck.

What happens to Jim in this chapter?

What is the size of the fish that Huck and Jim catch?

What does Huck decide to do, near the end of the chapter? Why?

Where does he stop, on his way?

Chapter 11

Who is Mrs. Judith Loftis- how is she characterized?  Make a list of at least three details to support your evaluation of her character.

What information does Huck get from Mrs.  Judith Loftis?

What does Huck discover, concerning Jim?

Where does Huck go after meeting with Loftis?

Homework- due Monday (March 30)- read Chapter 12 and take notes

Chapters 6-8: Transition

In a new document on Huckleberry Finn, called "transition", answer the questions for chapter 6.  Then, read chapters 7 and 8, for homework, and add those to your document.

Chapter 6

What is Huck’s new way of life?  How does he feel about this transition? Give examples to support your answer.

What are his plans?  How do these plans define him as a character?

Identify at least one of Pap’s arguments against the government; how does this displeasure define his character?

Chapter 7

What important event/useful acquisition takes place, at the beginning of this chapter?  Why is it crucial to the plot of Chapters 7 and 8?

What does Huckleberry make people believe?  How does he do it?  How does this add to the development of his character in the novel?

Where does he go?  What does he do?

Chapter 8

Why is there a cannon being fired at the beginning of this chapter?

What does Huckleberry discover in his new home?  What is his reaction to this discovery?

Who does Huckleberry discover?  Summarize the events relayed by his “new friend”.

What “investment” has his new acquaintance made?  List them.

How do we understand this character by the information he has given to Huckleberry?

Overview- Explain the world that the three focal characters of these chapters live in.  What are their rules, values and qualities that enable them to survive?  Define what at least two of these characters share and concisely identify the environment that these three characters in habit.  In doing so, what comment and/ or conclusion does our author, Mark Twain, make about human nature?

Jim's Hairball???

Chapters 3-5

Huckleberry Finn

English 11

Mr. Buyce

Chapter 3

What does prayer accomplish, according to Miss Watson?

What does Huck pray for?

According to Miss Watson, what should you pray for?

How long has it been since Huckleberry has seen his father?

What do they think has happened to Huck’s father?

What is the “gang’s” first mission?

Explain Tom Sawyer’s reference to Don Quixote.

Who are their enemies, according to Tom Sawyer?  What do these enemies create?  What do these creations do?

Why do we find Huck out in the woods, rubbing an iron ring and old tin lamp, at the close of the chapter?

Chapter 4

Why does Huck sleep in the woods?

What does the widow admit to Huckleberry?

Why does Huck feel “worried and shaky”?

What does Huckleberry notice in the new snow?

Why does Huck go to see Judge Thatcher?

What is so special about Jim’s hairball?

Explain Huck’s future, according to Jim?

Chapter 5

What “visitor” does Huck discover in his room?

From the visitor’s description, summarize his appearance in no more than two sentences.

What does the visitor observe, concerning Huckleberry?

What does the visitor tell Huck, concerning school?  Why?

What does the visitor ask Huck, concerning money?

What happens to Huck’s father?

What promise does Huck’s father make?  To whom does he make this promise?  Does he keep this promise?

What does the new Judge decide, concerning Huckleberry’s father?

Chapter 2

Chapter 2- Huckleberry Finn

English 11

Mr. Buyce

From your reading for homework, answer the following questions.  Answer what you able to without your novel; use the book for the questions you cannot answer.  Be sure to be accurate in your responses.  Please work alone, as you will be evaluated on an individual basis.

Chapter 2

1.       Who hears Huck and Tom?

2.       What uncomfortable thing happens to Huck?

3.       What does Tom Sawyer do?

4.       How does Jim explain his hat being taken?

5.       Explain the stories Jim tells?

6.       How do other slaves react to Jim’s stories?

7.       How are Jim’s fellow slaves characterized?

8.       What kind of status has Jim set himself up with, to his fellows?  How has he done that?

9.       Why is Jim “ruined for a servant”?

10.   Who does Huck and Tom find?

11.   Where do the boys go?

12.   What do they do once they are there?  What do they call it?

13.   Explain the oath of Sawyer’s gang?

14.   What do the boy’s decide about Huckleberry’s family?

15.   What is the function of Sawyer’s gang?  For what reason?

16.   What is the gang’s understanding of “ransom”?

17.   What does the gang treat women? Why?

18.   What do Tom and the gang plan to do in a week?

19.   What happens to Huckleberry’s clothes?

20.   Write a paragraph on the cultural understanding of Jim, his fellow slaves and the boys in this chapter.  How are each defined- what are they representations of?  What comment is Twain making on each of these type of characters?

Beginning Huckleberry Finn!!!

Welcome to the Wild World of HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Answer these questions below.

A. Comprehension
1.  What other book did Mark Twain write?

2.  What does the speaker of this passage tell us about Twain's handling of the truth?

3.  Why does our speaker leave the widow's house and then return?

4.  What does the widow do before meals?

5.  Why is the speaker not concerned with Moses?

6.  What habits do the speaker and the widow have?

7.  What place does miss Watson tell our narrator about?How does he feel about this place?

8.  Why doesn't our narrator want to go to the good place?

9.  What bad sign does our narrator receive?

10.  What does our narrator do to protect himself?

11.  Where does the narrator go?  How does he get there?  Who is waiting for him there?

B. Analysis

12.  What is our speaker's education?  Support your response with proof from the text.

13.  What does our narrator's observation about the author explain about writers?

14.  How does our narrator feel about "civilized" life?  Explain your answer with proof from the text.

15.  How does the speaker feel about religion- Christianity?

16.  How does he feel about the supernatural? Support your response with reference to the text.

C. Literary Element- Characterization
In a paragraph, explain how our narrator is characterized in this first chapter.  Explain at least three different aspects of his personality, using evidence from the text to support your observations.