1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Choice Assignment

2. What Should the Slides be About? • Connections to • Art • Literature • Science • Music • Poetry • Nature • Politics • People • Current events

3. What Can Be in the Slides? • Paintings • Images • Fun Facts • Songs • Poems • Videos • Maps • Quotes

4. Fatherhood • Childhood • Education • Religion • River/Nature • Money • Superstition • Relationships • Language • Society • Psychology • Crime

5. Point Value: 50 • Minimum Ten Slides (40 points) • Does not include title page • Does not include works cited page • Works Cited Page (10 points) • Please refrain from sleeping, using cell phones, or doing homework during student presentations.

6. Due Date?

7. Father and Son

11. Johnny Cash

12. The River

14. Can You Name All States that Touch the Mississippi River?

17. Egalitarianism

18. The Slave Ship (1840) • By Joseph Turner • Based on an incident in 1783 in which the captain of a slave ship who was insured for the value of slaves lost at sea but not for those lost to illness threw all sick slaves overboard to drown. • In the next slide, notice the chains, in the wake of the ship, that seem to rise up from the blood-red sea.

20. Who is the most important person in the history of the world? • Who is the most important American? • Who is the most important American of the 20th century? • Who is the most important American Civil Rights Activist of the 20th century?

22. Works Cited • Boreman, Morris. The Plight of the Mississippi. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. Netlibrary. Web. 22 Aug. 2012. • Catcher, Ted. “Johnny Cash: “A Boy Named Sue.” Daily Herald [Chicago, IL] 1 Aug. 2006: 1. Youtube. Web. 26 Aug. 2012. • Curtinelli, Michael F. “The Roles of Fathers in America.” CNN.com. 72.20-21 (Aug. 2011). Web. 22 Aug. 2012 • Edmundson, Mark. Map of the Midwest. Harper’s Sept. 2011: 49. Print. • Haliami, Sergio. “Where the Ohio and Mississippi Merge.” National Geographic, Aug.-Sept. 2012. Web. 29 Aug. 2012.

23. Works Cited • “Perspective Analysis of Huck Finn.” Adventures in a Life. 1 May 2011: B4-5.Print. • Mulligan, Robert. Atticus and Jem. Digital image. Language of Film. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2012. • O’Brien, Timothy.” The American River.” America 21 May 2001: 31. Web. 22 Aug. 2009. • Turner, Joseph. The Slave Ship. Ed. Frank Thomas and Matt Weiland. New York: W.W. Norton, Web. • Washburne, Anna, and John P. Thornton, eds. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: An American Orator. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. Print.