American Literature Module 3.6
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Study Guide: American Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 3)
Honors Texts
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Context Resource Links
These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.
Readings
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/the-rise-of-realism-1860-1914/
- https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112072754366
- http://salwen.com/mtrace.html
- https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/marketin/spiel.html
- http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/texts/remus.htm
- https://www.uncleremus.com/bio.html
- https://www.neffzone.com/huckleberry-finn/
- http://salwen.com/mtquotes.html
The Author’s Life
- http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
- http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/
- http://www.twainquotes.com/
- http://www.marktwainhannibal.com/twain/
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/mark-twains-autobiography
- The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain by Susan K. Harris
- https://marktwainhouse.org/digitalofferings
Poetry
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/poetry-by-mark-twain
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/poetry-by-sarah-morgan-bryan-piatt
Audio
- Alan Munro reading (from Amazon)
- https://librivox.org/search?q=huckleberry%20finn&search_form=advanced
- https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2014/10/mark-twain-sort-of-speaks-to-us/
- http://jimhodgesaudiobooks.com/product/autobiography-of-frederick-douglass-an-american-slave/
Video
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/huckleberry-finn-movie-trailers
- 1939 film: http://amzn.to/2pP9vEZ
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/the-adventures-of-mark-twain
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-only-footage-of-mark-twain-in-existence-13605003/
- https://www.ket.org/education/resources/america-past/ (scroll to Canals and Steamboats)
Visual Arts
- https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/hucillhp.html#c
- https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/colophon.html
- https://www.openculture.com/2015/05/norman-rockwell-illustrates-mark-twains-tom-sawyer-huckleberry-finn.html
- https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/benton.html
- https://seventhperiod.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/huck-finn-art/
- https://steamboattimes.com/mark_twain_gallery_1.html
- https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/mark-twain-images/
Music
- http://www.twainquotes.com/19710516.html
- https://amzn.to/3b7bCvI
- http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/Raging_Canal.htm
- https://theatreworks.org/201920-season/mark-twains-river-of-song/
Historic and Geographic Context
- https://digital.lib.niu.edu/twain
- http://norfolklibrarybookgroup.squarespace.com/the-reading-blog/2011/12/2/a-huck-finn-map.html
Places to Go
- https://experiencemississippiriver.com
- https://www.mississippirivertrail.org/
- https://marktwainhouse.org/digitalofferings
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
- https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/states.htm
Category link for browsing: https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/category/e3-resources
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