Huck Finn Audio Book

Here is the link to the audio book for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  We have made a change to the reading routine in class.  You will have a choice of reading the audio version of the book on one of our laptop, or read silently in your Huck Finn book, or participate in a shared read aloud with Ms. Wood. 

Whatever your choice, on Friday we will finish reading chapters 11 and 12 in class, and we will complete a study guide for those two chapters.  Anyone who does not finish should take the book and study guide home for completion before next Tuesday's class.  You can hand the guide in at the end of today's class (Friday) or at the beginning of class Tuesday.  The activities in the booklets we made in class can be finished on your own time or during class time if you read ahead!

Welcome to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Today marks our journey down the Mississippi River with Huck Finn.  Each day we'll read several chapters in class, and most days you'll have some pages to read on your own.  As you read, you'll look for interesting superstitions, colloquialisms, and tricks, which you can chart in your Huck Finn portfolios.  You'll also record questions, identify the characters, and keep a travel journal occasionally (dates on the handout) in the voice of our narrator, Huck.

You now have a book checked out to you for your outside-of-class reading, and you'll be responsible for turning it in at the end of this project.  Don't lose it unless you want to pay for it!  On this home page in the right hand column is a link to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ebook,.  If that's more convenient, you can read the assigned chapters online.

There you are!  Happy reading!

Finding Articles and Summarizing

Today (2/5)- 

Below is a copy of the activity we will be doing in class. Feel free to print this off if you are ill or miss a day. Once you have completed this assignment, you will do an alphabox summary of today's independent reading. Once this is completed and handed in, then silently read at your computer.

Directions:  Go to the class blog and look at your peers’ interesting facts if you do not have an idea for your research topic.  Look at the additional information found on their blog posts for articles. Use resource links found on the blog, such as NPR, National Geographic, and so forth. The library databases will also have a lot of information on your topic. Print two articles related to your research topic. Read each article carefully, selecting the nine most important words for each, using those words write a paragraph summarizing the information you found. Please staple this sheet on top of your two articles.

Research topic: ________________________________________________________________________

Article Title: ___________________________________________________________________________

9 most important words

Summary (4-5 complete sentences):

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Research topic: ________________________________________________________________________

Article Title: ______________________________________________________________________

9 most important words

Summary (4-5 complete sentences):

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