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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.

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  1. 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.

  2. Vernacular • everyday spoken language • informal language • non-academic, non-standard language

  3. 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

  4. List of dialects of the English languageFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American English • Cultural • African-American Vernacular English • Chicano English • General American • New York Latino English • Pennsylvania Dutchfield English • Yeshivish • Yinglish

  5. List of dialects of the English languageFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American English Regional • Inland Northern American English (includes western and centralupstate 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

  6. 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?

  7. 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.

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