The Adventures of The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnHuckleberry FinnA Choice AssignmentA Choice Assignment

What Should the Slides be About?What Should the Slides be About?

• Connections to • Art• Literature• Science• Music• Poetry• Nature• Politics• People• Current events

What Can Be in the Slides?What Can Be in the Slides?• PaintingsPaintings• ImagesImages• Fun FactsFun Facts• SongsSongs• PoemsPoems• VideosVideos• MapsMaps• QuotesQuotes

• FatherhoodFatherhood• ChildhoodChildhood• EducationEducation• ReligionReligion• River/NatureRiver/Nature• MoneyMoney• SuperstitionSuperstition• RelationshipsRelationships• LanguageLanguage• SocietySociety• PsychologyPsychology• CrimeCrime

• Point Value: 50Point Value: 50

• Minimum Ten Slides (40 points)Minimum Ten Slides (40 points)• Does not include title pageDoes not include title page• Does not include works cited pageDoes not include works cited page

• Works Cited Page (10 points)Works Cited Page (10 points)

• Please refrain from sleeping, using cell phones, or doing Please refrain from sleeping, using cell phones, or doing homework during student presentations.homework during student presentations.

• Due Date?Due Date?

Father and SonFather and Son

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird• “Jem and I found our father satisfactory.

He played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.”

• “Jem and I found our father satisfactory; he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.”

The Adventures of Sue Finn• Johnny Cash

The RiverThe River

Can You Name All States that Touch the Mississippi River?

EgalitarianismEgalitarianism

The Slave ShipThe Slave Ship (1840)• By Joseph Turner

• Full title: Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming OnTyphoon Coming On

• Based on an incident in 1783 in which the captain of a slave ship who was insured for the value of slaves lost at sea but not for those lost to illness threw all sick slaves overboard to drown.

• In the next slide, notice the chains, in the wake of the ship, that seem to rise up from the blood-red sea.

• Who is the most important person in the history of the Who is the most important person in the history of the world?world?

• Who is the most important American?Who is the most important American?

• Who is the most important American of the 20Who is the most important American of the 20thth century? century?

• Who is the most important American Civil Rights Activist of Who is the most important American Civil Rights Activist of the 20the 20thth century? century?

Works Cited• Boreman, Morris. The Plight of the Mississippi. New York:

W.W. Norton, 2000. Netlibrary. Web. 22 Aug. 2012.• Catcher, Ted. “Johnny Cash: “A Boy Named Sue.” Daily Herald

[Chicago, IL] 1 Aug. 2006: 1. Youtube. Web. 26 Aug. 2012.• Curtinelli, Michael F. “The Roles of Fathers in America.”

CNN.com. 72.20-21 (Aug. 2011). Web. 22 Aug. 2012• Edmundson, Mark. Map of the Midwest. Harper’s Sept. 2011:

49. Print.• Haliami, Sergio. “Where the Ohio and Mississippi Merge.”

National Geographic, Aug.-Sept. 2012. Web. 29 Aug. 2012.

Works Cited• “Perspective Analysis of Huck Finn.” Adventures in a Life. 1

May 2011: B4-5.Print.• Mulligan, Robert. Atticus and Jem. Digital image. Language of

Film. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2012.• O’Brien, Timothy.” The American River.” America 21 May

2001: 31. Web. 22 Aug. 2009.• Turner, Joseph. The Slave Ship. Ed. Frank Thomas and Matt

Weiland. New York: W.W. Norton, Web.• Washburne, Anna, and John P. Thornton, eds. Dr. Martin

Luther King, Jr: An American Orator. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. Print.