PPT-Huck Finn Chapters 1-8 AP Test

Review Question1 Answer Question 2 Answer Question 3 Answer Question 4 Answer Question 5 Answer Question 6 Answer Question 7 Answer Question 8 Answer Question 9 answer Question 10. By Mark Twain. Meet Mark Twain. “I was born on the 30. th. of November, 1835, in the almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County, Missouri… the village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by 1 percent. It is more than many of the best men in history could have done for a town.”. English 11. Humor. Read the Notice/Explanatory etc. to the novel as a class, pg. 6. Mark Twain sates in the “Notice” that persons attempting to find a moral in this book will be banished. While he slightly overstates his case, we should not forget that this novel is very funny. It is important to find the humor in the novel. Too often we as readers are so concerned with the social aspect that we forget to look for what is funny.. Dr. Maier. Satire. Definition: A genre that pokes fun at some element of society (or society as a whole) and often uses laughter as a means of correcting vice.. . Horatian versus Juvenalian Satire. Horatian Satire: pokes fun at society through good-natured and playful humor. . . and . Picaresque Fiction. English 11 Honors: American Themes. Picaresque. The . picaresque novel. (Spanish: . ". picaresca. ". , from . ". pícaro. ". , for "rogue" or "rascal") is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is . Thomas DeMassa, Kazhra Kelcho, Jake Stephan, Maren Fox, Cole Leslie. Settings. -Takes place on a raft constructed by Huck and Jim floating up foggy Mississippi River. -Searching for Cairo. Vocabulary. For this assignment, you will need . to plot out all the major story points. for . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. . . You . will indicate points on the map of the Mississippi River, and write a brief description of the event on a separate sheet of paper. . "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn" . Ernest Hemingway . Racism & Slavery. . written after . Emancipation Proclamation. abolished slavery, but time period of story set during slavery . As we are reading from multiple versions, you are on your own to find the page numbers. Students who find most or all of the page numbers can share them with the class for extra credit. Teaming up with someone to present the page numbers is fine.. A picaresque novel:. Involves clever rogues or adventurers engaged in a series of episodes.. A genre of generally satiric prose fiction that depicts in realistic, often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.. About the Author. Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Clemens. . Clemens was born on the Missouri frontier, learned several trades, traveled widely, and transformed himself into Mark Twain.. Four years after Clemens was born, his . English III / AP Language and Composition. Review Questions are from Teacher’s Pet Publications. Mark Twain. Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. . At the age of four, Samuel and his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri. This was his first experience with living along the Mississippi River. Hannibal’s port served boats daily from St. Louis and New Orleans. . in Mark Twain’s . “Huckleberry Finn”. Romanticism in Huck Finn. "Romanticism," as a term, derives from "romance," which from the Medieval Period (1200-1500) and on simply meant a story (e.g. all the chivalric, King Arthur legends) that was adventurist and improbable . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain Meet Mark Twain “I was born on the 30 th of November, 1835, in the almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County, Missouri… the village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by 1 percent. It is more than many of the best men in history could have done for a town.” Individual vs. Society Essential Questions What is identity? How is it defined in relation to society or community? How does one gain a sense of self identity and community identity? What is the appropriate way to balance individual and group identity?