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Tag Archives: Huckleberry Finn
The Complex Inner Life of Teachers
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Superstition & Power Relations
To honor Friday’s 13th, here’s how Mark Twain handles superstition in “Huck Finn.”
#CancelColbert, #CancelMarkTwain
Carl Rosin, a high school teacher I admire tremendously, shares below how he will be using a recent public dust-up about a Stephen Colbert tweet to help his students understand the power and danger of satire, especially as it applies to Huckleberry Finn. I love the tweet that Carl imagines could have emerged out of Huck […]
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Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)
A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.
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Duck Dynasty Patriarch as Pap Finn
Patriarch Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” shares certain characteristics with Pap Finn.
GOP Whites Splitting? Huck Finn Says No
If “Huck Finn” has predictive value, the class tensions within today’s GOP will be papered over by racism.
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Summertime and the Living Is Easy
An afternoon spent in a friend’s boat brought to mind Huck and Jim watching the Mississippi River.