Teachers:

Please use this unit guide/plan to help you plan your own Huck Finn unit. I am adding links and materials all the time!

INTRODUCTORY Materials

• Huck Finn Background Readings 
• Strange Fruit (audio)
• Choice Unit Huck or Awakening (PowerPoint)
• 60 Minutes Video (youtube)
• What the N-Word Feels Like (video)
• Extra Video: Michelle’s Response to “What the N-Word Feels Like”

TEXT/AUDIO

• Online Book
• Audio Book

Study Guide

• Huck Finn Study Guide
• Huck Finn Notes Pages
• Outline for Struggling Students

Final Exam

• Choices, Projects, and Rubric

Additional Context Readings and Criticism

• Intro Reading, by Toni Morrison
• Reviews of Huck Finn

• “Masterpiece, or Piece of Trash?”
• Huck, Jim, & American Racial Discourse with Notes (David L. Smith)
• The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship (Peaches Henry)
• Say it Aint So; Huck Finn should NOT be taught in schools (Jane Smiley)

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT

• Huck Finn Essay Assignment (Choice One)

ADDITIONAL READINGS

• the-passing-of-grandison-pdf
• Open Yale Course: Historical Background on the Civil War/Reconstruction Era
• Booker T. Washington / W. E. B. DuBois Info
• B. T. Washington Speech
• DuBois Response
• Article about “Strange Fruit,” the poem that became a song performed by Billie Holiday
• More poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Youtube: What the N-Word Feels Like
• Randall Kennedy Interview about the N-Word