Starter:  What new perspectives on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have emerged for you since watching the films and reading the essays?

Daily Show:  Controversial Change in Text

Discuss in groups:

1)  For each essay, discuss your answers to last night’s questions.  What are the claims?  What is the evidence?  How does the essay illuminate wither or both of the essential questions?

2)  Discuss how these analyses are developed.  What do these essays do to convince us of their interpretations?  What elements do they contain?  Are their perspectives convincing?  Why?

3)  Discuss your answers to the starter question.

Huck Finn Literary Analysis Prewrite (DUE MONDAY)

Homework:  Read Zinn, Chapter 9

Answer the following questions:

1)  What does Howard Zinn present about slavery, The Civil War, and Reconstruction that differs from or expands upon what you already knew?  Make a bullet-list if you prefer.

2)  Make 5 connections between this chapter and  Huck Finn.  How does learning about this period of history inform our understanding of the novel?     (Remember that the novel takes place shortly before the Civil War, but it was written several decades afterward during Reconstruction)