Take out your copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and/or your independent reading book.

Please enjoy 15 minutes of sustained silent reading.

Socratic seminar rescheduled for Wednesday, May 12 to de-conflict with AP exams.

CHARACTERS – Chapters 1-4

Huck Finn Widow Douglas Miss Watson Tom Sawyer Jim Tom Sawyer’s gang

(Joe Harper, Ben Rogers, Little Tommy Barnes)

Pap

Mentioned, but not seen:

Aunt Polly Mary Judge Thatcher

New CHARACTERSChapters V - XI

Judge ThatcherThe New Judge an his wifeMrs. Judith Loftus and her

husband

HUCK’S MORAL DEVELOPMENT(as shown through his relationship with Jim)

Chapter IV: Huck goes to Jim for advice about Pap.Chapter VIII: Huck promises not to turn Jim in as a

runaway slave and agrees to help him.Chapter X: Huck plays a practical joke on Jim (snake

skin), sees the negative results (Jim being hurt), is sorry for what he did, and understands that actions have consequences and people can be hurt…and slaves suffer the same as everyone.

New CHARACTERSChapters XII-XVI

Jim Turner, Bill and Jake Packard

(watchman)(people on the boat)