Please sit in your study groups. Please sit in your study groups

Please sit in your study groups.

• Please sit in your study groups.

• Get a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the box in the front of the room.

• Take out your notebooks and open to the Literary Concepts section.

Vernacular

• everyday spoken language

• informal language

• non-academic, non-standard language

Dialect

• The version of a language spoken by people of a particular region or cultural group.

• Dialects are cultural or regional

• Differs from the “standard” language in grammar, vocabulary, and usage.

• Different from an “accent.”

• LIST OF ENGLISH DIALECTS

List of dialects of the English language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• American English

• Cultural

• African-American Vernacular English
• Chicano English
• General American
• New York Latino English
• Pennsylvania Dutchfield English
• Yeshivish
• Yinglish

List of dialects of the English language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• American English

• Regional

• Inland Northern American English (includes western and central upstate New York)

• Mid-Atlantic dialects

• Inland North American (Lower peninsula of Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, the suburbs of Chicago, part of eastern Wisconsin and upstate New York)

• North Central American English (primarily Minnesota, but also most of Wisconsin, the Upper peninsula of Michigan, and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa)

• Midland American English

• Southern English

• Western English

READ “Introduction” (pages 267-270). Answer the following questions in writing as you read:

• READ “Introduction” (pages 267-270). Answer the following questions in writing as you read:

• “People…enjoy it on more than one level” (p. 267, para. 2). What are the different levels the book can be read and enjoyed from?
• What are the “matters of urgent concern to young Americans today” that the book deals with?
• PEOPLE IN ACTION: From what perspective is the book narrated? How does this affect the reader’s perspective?
• GAMES, LIES AND THE TRUTH: What “concern” is at the core of this novel?
• READING IN DEPTH: How does Twain use language differently in this book?
• What is VERNACULAR?
• What did novelist Ernest Hemingway write about Huckleberry Finn (quote)?
• Identify and explain the two different types of IRONY.
• What are the two main SYMBOLS in this novel?
• VOCABULARY OF SPECIAL TERMS: What kinds of words may be unfamiliar?

INTERNET RESEARCH HOMEWORK

• Spend 30 MINUTES reading AT LEAST THREE ACADEMIC Internet sites relating to the controversies surrounding the book.

• TYPE “HUCK FINN CONTROVERSY” or “HUCK FINN DEBATED” or “BANNED BOOKS” into a search engine on the Internet.

• Fill out the chart (at least 10 points on each side).

• Write down your Internet sources.