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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This is the story of Huckleberry Finn, or Huck to his friends, and his adventures on the Mississippi River. Huck’s father takes him away from his new life with a kind old lady called Widow Douglas, and hides him in a hut. Huck runs away and goes down the river. He meets Jim, a black slave, and they travel down the river together. Read about their adventures and problems, and how they meet Tom Sawyer again.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American writer, Mark Twain, first published in the UK in 1884, then in the US in 1885. Known as one of the “Great American Novels”, it gives the reader a clear idea of America at that time. It’s one of the first novels in American literature written in everyday spoken English. The story is told by Huckleberry Finn, a young boy who has lots of adventures on the Mississippi River. This novel is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. There are colourful descriptions of people and places along the Mississippi River and themes include race and identity.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Retold and Activities by Claire Moore Illustrated by Alessandro Pugiotto

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Contents

Main Characters

Before you read

Chapter 1

Activities

Chapter 2

Activities

Chapter 3

Activities

Chapter 4

Activities

Chapter 5

Activities

Chapter 6

Activities

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Focus on... Black Slaves in America

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Test Yourself

79 Syllabus

I’m Huckleberry Finn Island Adventures A Meeting with a King Brothers Rescuing Jim Freedom

The Mississippi River

Main Characters

Miss Watson’s slave: he runs away and has lots of adventures with Huck.

His friends call him Huck. He tells the story of his adventures.

She’s a kind woman who gives Huck a home.

He isn’t really a Duke and does lots of bad things to get people’s money.

He drinks too much and wants Huck’s money. He isn’t really a King and, like the Duke, does bad things to get people’s money.

She’s Widow Douglas’ sister but she isn’t as nice to Huck as her sister is.

Huck’s best friend: he likes having many adventures.

Before you read

Writing 1 Look at the picture on the front cover of this book. What can

you see? Write some sentences. Use the words in the box to help you.

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boy

sit

tree

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summer

happy

MOVERS

2 Choose the correct word for each sentence about the story.

In this story, you can read about Huckeberry Finn’s in adventures ________ the 1880s.

on at in 1 The story ________ in a town on the Mississippi River in the southern states of America.

goes

starts

comes

2 Huckleberry Finn ________ with a kind old woman. lives

does

has

3 Then Huckleberry Finn’s father takes ________ away from the old woman. his her him

4 Huckleberry runs away ________ his father and travels down the river. by from at 5 He does ________ of exciting things on the river. lots

lot

much

Speaking

3 Find the Mississippi River on a map. Then answer the questions. Use the Internet to help you. 1 How long is the river? 2 How many states does the river run through? 3 Where does the Mississippi river end? 4 Would you like to live near a river? Why? / Why not? 5 What names of rivers do you know in your country?

21st Century Skills

Vocabulary 4 Match the pictures to the words in the box. cave

raft

1 _____________

footprints

rags

2 _____________

4 ____________

barrel

3 _____________

5 ____________

Listening Read the sentences. Listen to the first part of Chapter 1 2 5

and tick the ones you hear.

A ■ This is a story about my cousin. B ■ This is a story about me and my adventures... C ■ I find $4 on a raft. D ■ ... more than we know what to do with! E ■ I sometimes wear rags. F ■ I hate my new clothes.

Chapter 1

I’m Huckleberry Finn 2 This story is about Huck and his adventures on a raft on the Mississippi River.

In another story, Huck and his friend Tom find a lot of money. Now it’s in the bank and Huck gets a dollar a day.

My name’s Huckleberry Finn, or Huck to my friends, and I come from St. Petersburg, a town on the Mississippi River. This is a story about me and my adventures1 on a raft down the river. There’s another story, too, called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer’s my friend and we have great fun together. At the end of the story with Tom, we find some money in a cave. It’s a lot of money - $12,000 - that’s $6,000 each2! But Judge Thatcher takes our money and puts it in the bank. Now we get interest3 on our money – a dollar a day each – more than we know what to do with! My mother is dead4 and I don’t know where my father is but I’m a happy boy. I sometimes wear rags and I like living in a barrel by the river but everyone says I can’t do that anymore. So I go to live with a nice old woman called Widow Douglas in her big house. She wants me 1

adventure something exciting each all the people in a group 3 interest money you get from a bank 4 dead not living anymore 2

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to be her son and she wants me to be a nice, clean boy. So I sleep in a bed and I wear nice clothes. She reads me stories and I eat at the table but sometimes I really miss1 my old life. All I really want to do is wear my old rags and sleep in my barrel, but my friend, Tom Sawyer, says I have to be good. Then her sister, Miss Watson, comes to live with us too. She’s tall and thin and she wears glasses. She always shouts at me and tells me what to do. “Don’t put your feet on the table, Huckleberry!” and “Sit nicely at the table, Huckleberry!” I don’t like Miss Watson very much. She always says prayers2 before dinner. Miss Watson has a black slave3. He’s a big, strong man called Jim. I like Jim. One night, I’m in my bedroom looking out of the window. I hear a noise. I jump out of the window and see Tom Sawyer. We run along the path4. 3 Then we see Jim sitting by the kitchen door. He gets up and shouts, “Who’s there?” We don’t 1

miss a feeling when you want something you had in the past prayer people say prayers when they want God to listen to them 3 slave somebody who has to work very hard for somebody else 4 path a small road where you can walk, usually in the country 2

The old woman is nice to Huck but sometimes he misses wearing old rags and sleeping in a barrel.

Miss Watson lives with Huck too. She always shouts at him. Huck doesn’t like her, but he likes her slave, Jim.

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Huck has fun playing with Tom but the next morning Miss Watson is angry with him because his clothes are dirty, but the old woman isn’t.

Huck is worried because nobody knows where his father is. He goes to school and starts to like it. He likes living with Widow Douglas too. But, one day he sees his father’s footprints in the snow.

move. Tom and I wait and then Jim falls asleep with his hat on! Then we run to the top of the hill and find Joe Harper and Ben Rogers and some more boys. We have some great adventures that night. Tom wants us to be a band of robbers1 and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang. We all promise never to tell anyone our secrets. I go back to my bedroom exhausted2 – my clothes all dirty! Miss Watson is very angry with me the next morning but Widow Douglas isn’t. She cleans my clothes and doesn’t say a word. I’m worried3 about my Pap (that’s what I call my father). I don’t know where he is. Some people say he drowned4 in the river but I don’t think so. But I continue5 going to school. I learn to read and write. At first I hate6 school but slowly I start to like it. I even like living with Widow Douglas too. One winter day, after breakfast, I go into the garden and I see some footprints in the snow. I look around but I don’t see anybody. But I know it’s him – my Pap. 1

robbers people who take something that isn’t theirs exhausted really tired 3 worried to feel anxious about something 4 drown die under water 5 continue not stop doing something 6 hate not like at all 2

Huck has to be a good boy when he’s sitting at the table or Miss Watson shouts at him.

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Jim looks at his magic ball but he doesn’t know what Huck’s father wants to do.

Huck’s father comes. He’s dirty and he’s wearing rags. He wants Huck’s money. Huck gives him the dollar he has. His father tries to get all Huck’s money but Judge Thatcher doesn’t give it to him.

So I go to Jim because he has a magic1 ball. I tell him Pap is here again. “What does he want to do?” and “Does he want to stay?” I ask Jim. He looks at his ball and says something. He listens to it. Then he says, “Your father doesn’t know what to do.” But that night when I go to my bedroom there he is – Pap is back! I stare2 at him. His hair is long and dirty. He’s wearing rags. His face is white. “Look at your new clothes!” he says. “They’re from Widow Douglas,” I reply3. “You go to school. Do you think you’re better than your father?” he continues. “No,” I reply “but I’m learning to read.” “Well, I can’t read and you don’t need to read. I hear you have money. I need money.” “I haven’t got any money. Judge Thatcher has got it. Here, I only have one dollar.” I say, giving him the coin4. Then he goes. The next day he goes to Judge Thatcher but he doesn’t get my money. Judge

magic you do magic with this stare look hard at something 3 reply answer 4 coin 2

Huck is living with his father now and they fish in the river, Huck likes fishing but he doesn’t like living with his father.

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Huck’s Pap takes him away from Widow Douglas and they live in a log cabin in the wood. Huck can’t get away because Pap locks the door.

After two months, Huck decides to escape because his father hits him a lot. He uses a saw to make a hole in the wall.

Thatcher and Widow Douglas try to stop Pap from taking me away but there’s nothing they can do. He stays around. He gets drunk1. I go to school. Then one day he takes me up the river in a boat. After about three miles we stop. There’s a wood2 but no houses, only a log cabin3. We live there. He locks4 the door at night and he has a gun5. We fish6 and sometimes he goes to town but he always locks me in the cabin. Two months pass. I have no books and my clothes are dirty and like rags again. I like the cabin. I think about Widow Douglas’s house. I like fishing in the river and living in the forest but Pap beats7 me and I have lots of bruises8. Then he goes away for three days and locks me in the cabin. I’m very lonely9. I’m scared10 so I decide11 to escape12. 1

drunk how you feel when you drink too much beer or wine wood a place with lots of trees 3 log cabin small wooden house 4 lock close with a key 5 gun 6 fish see page 15. Huck and his father are going fishing 7 beat hit someone 8 bruise 9 lonely when you feel sad because nobody is with you 10 scared afraid 11 decide when you think about something then do it 12 escape run away 2

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There isn’t a window and the door is locked, but one day I find an old saw1 so I start to make a hole2 in the cabin wall. Then Pap comes back so I hide3 it under a blanket. Pap is angry and talks and talks, then he drinks some whisky and falls asleep. The next morning, Pap sends me out to get fish for breakfast. I see a canoe4 on the river. There’s nobody inside. I look around. Pap is in the cabin. So I jump in the canoe and hide it. That night Pap goes out but he leaves the gun. I take the saw and finish the hole in the wall. I take some food and other things and get out. I have a plan5. I find a pig and kill6 it. Then I put its blood7 around the cabin. Pap must think I’m dead. Then I get in the canoe and go down the river.

Huck escapes down the river in a canoe. He kills a pig and puts blood around the cabin so Pap thinks he’s dead.

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What do you think of Huck?

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hole

hide put something where nobody can find it canoe 5 plan if you have a plan you decide the things you want to do before doing them 6 kill if you kill someone, they die 7 blood 4

Would you like him as a friend? Why? / Why not?

After-reading Activities • Chapter 1

Speaking 1 In Chapter 1 Huck plays with his friends and goes fishing

with his father. Answer these questions about you.

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What do you like doing with your friends outside? What do you like doing with your family at home? Do you like fishing? Why?/ Why not? What do you do in your free time when it’s raining? Do you think it’s better to have a lot of friends or one best friend? Why?

21st Century Skills

Vocabulary 2 Choose the correct word for each picture.

barrel

slave

judge robber

raft barrel coin snow

glasses saw

path river house room

cabin cave saw footprint

canoe table

Reading and Writing

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3 Choose the correct word(s) for each sentence about Chapter 1.

doesn’t know where his father is at the start of the story. Huck _______ doesn’t

don’t

does

1 Widow Douglas wants Huck _______ her son. be

being

to be

2 Miss Watson always shouts _______ Huck. to

from

3 Huck _______ to read and write at school. learns

teaches

can

4 Huck has _______ of money in the bank. lots

lot

much

5 Huck _______ down the river in a canoe. goes runs plays

Before-reading Activity

Listening 4 4 Look at these sentences. Tick (3) the ones that you think

are true in Chapter 2. Listen and check.

1 ■ Huckleberry sees his father at the cabin. 2 ■ Huckleberry goes to another island. 3 ■ People are looking for him. 4 ■ They find Huckleberry and take him back to town. 5 ■ He goes fishing.

After-reading Activities • Chapter 6

Reading and Writing

MOVERS

1 Look at this picture from Chapter 6. Complete the sentences

and answer the questions.

1 2 3 4

Tom is sitting on a Tom’s wearing a brown What colour is the woman’s dress? How many people can you see in the picture? Why is Tom sad?

mattress . ___________ ___________ . ___________ ___________ ___________

Reading Comprehension 2 Read the sentences and decide who asks these questions:

Tom, Huck, Aunt Polly or Aunt Sally?

1 2 3 4 5

Is he ill again? You mean, where’s Huck Finn? And where’s Sid? But isn’t he free? Does Aunt Sally know? Why Jim?

Aunt Sally _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________

3 Number these sentences in the order that they happen

in Chapter 6.

A ■ Jim tells Huck that his father is dead. B ■ Aunt Polly arrives. C ■ Aunt Sally gets a letter.

D ■ Tom comes back with the Doctor.

Vocabulary 4 Read the text and choose the correct words.

She’s opening the (1) trunk / letter when we hear a noise. We look out of the (2) window / door and there’s Tom Sawyer! She drops the letter on the (3) floor / wagon. He’s on a (4) bed / mattress and there’s the old Doctor, and Jim, and lots of (5) people / children. Jim’s hands are tied behind his (6) back / head. 21st Century Skills

Speaking 5 Which chapter did you like the most? Why? 1 ■ Chapter 1 – I’m Huckleberry Finn 2 ■ Chapter 2 – Island Adventures 3 ■ Chapter 3 – Meeting with a King 4 ■ Chapter 4 – Brothers 5 ■ Chapter 5 – Rescuing Jim 6 ■ Chapter 6 – Freedom 6 Do you think Huck has a happy future? Why? / Why not?

Writing 7 Who’s your favourite character? Choose from the words

in the box to describe your favourite character. worried

adventurous kind helpful fun clever happy

quick

My favourite character is ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________

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Mark Twain 1835

Mark Twain American writer, real name, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born on 30th November 1835 in Florida, Missouri, USA.

Early life The sixth of seven children, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri when he was four. This port town on the Mississippi River gave him the idea for the town of St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. After his father died when he was eleven, Mark started to work for a printer, but his dream was to be a steamboat man.

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Marriage and later life He married Olivia Langdon in 1870 and they had a son and three daughters. First, they lived in New York, and then they moved to Hartford in Connecticut. He started writing here and made a lot of money, but he also lost a lot through investments in inventions and technology. In 1891, Twain and his family went to Europe. They stayed in France, Germany and Italy and he continued to write and lecture. He was also a journalist and a very popular public speaker.

Writing and Success Twain wrote many of his most famous novels in Connecticut, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He wrote 20 novels and became famous around the world for his adventure and travel stories. Died 21st April 1910 in Redding, Connecticut.

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Black Slaves in America Slavery was legal in Missouri when Mark Twain lived there, and this is a theme in his books. Even Twain’s own family had slaves. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we meet Jim, the black slave who, at the end, becomes a friend to Tom and Huck.

Slavery in America

The first form of slavery began in America in 1619 when 20 Africans arrived at Point Comfort (now Fort Hampton) in Virginia on a Dutch ship. However, the country continued to use Native American and white European slaves until the end of the 17th century. It was then that the transatlantic slave trade really became important for the American colonies. Between 1701 and 1760 over 150,000 African slaves arrived in America, this number rising to over 300,000 between 1761 and 1810. In 1661, the first anti-miscegenation which said black people and white people couldn’t marry each other, became law in Maryland. In the 1960s, many southern American states still had these laws. Alabama was the last state to ban this law in 2000.

Declaration of Independence

In 1776, the American Declaration of Independence said in its first lines “that all men are created equal…” but unfortunately this didn’t include slaves. Slavery continued in America with the first US census in 1790 declaring that over 40% of the population in South Carolina were slaves. They used more and more slaves in the tobacco fields and rice plantations.

Life was hard for slaves…

Life was hard for slaves. They worked long hours and they often lived in dirty huts, especially those who worked on plantations. Many African-Americans were also soldiers on both sides during the American Civil War but they were still slaves. When the Civil War ended, the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery, and in 1865 all remaining slaves became officially free. However, segregation of black Americans continued for a very long time.

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The Mississippi River GeographyAmerica

The Mississippi River is the second-longest river in North America. It begins at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and goes south for over 2,300 miles (over 3,700 km). The river passes through many American states, including Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri, where Mark Twain was born, and many famous cities like Memphis, St Louis, New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In 2002, a Slovenian man called Martin Strel swam the entire length of the river in 68 days!

History

Native Americans started living along the Mississippi River thousands of years ago, probably because it’s one of the best places for growing things in the United States. Slowly over time, white people arrived on the river and built farms and cities. It’s also one of the busiest waterways in the world with ships and boats going up and down everyday. In the 19th and 20th centuries, steamboats carried people and goods along the river. The first steamboat to travel the full length of the Lower Mississippi was the New Orleans in December 1811.

The steamboat era is something that Mark Twain talks a lot about in his books, particularly Life on the Mississippi, while the river plays a big part in Twain’s other books, as he tells the story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn’s adventures. In 1927, there was a big flood and farms, factories and towns went underwater. 250 people died then, and there was another great flood in 1993. Nowadays, the Mississippi River has major pollution and environmental problems.

The Great River Road

The river is one of the most famous parts of the US. The Great River Road runs alongside the river, so people can travel along it in their car, too. There are also lots of things to do along the river, from canoeing and fishing to kayaking and water skiing

Test Yourself Read the sentences and decide if they’re true (T) or false (F). T F 1 Huck and Tom Sawyer find a lot of money in a house. 2 Miss Watson doesn’t wear glasses. 3 Huck likes going to school. 4 Huck’s father takes him to St Louis. 5 People go on the steamboat to look for Huck. 6 Jim thinks Huck is a ghost. 7 Jim and Huck sleep in a tent in the middle of the island.

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8 There are two men in the house Jim and Huck find

on the river.

9 Jim dresses as a girl and goes into town. 10 Jim and Huck meet two men and a woman. 11 Both men are Dukes. 12 Huck hears a story about a man called Peter. 13 Mary gives the King a letter.

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14 Peter Wilks’ Doctor doesn’t believe that the King

and the Duke are Wilks’ brothers.

15 The Doctor takes the King and the Duke to a tavern. 16 Huck and the Duke go to Silas Phelp’s house together. 17 Huck and Tom find Jim in a hut in the garden. 18 Huck finds a Doctor for Tom. 19 Aunt Polly arrives at the Phelps’ house. 20 Jim doesn’t tell Huck anything about his father.

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Syllabus Topics Home Family Nature Colours Clothing Grammar and Structures Present simple: states and habits Present continuous: actions in progress Past simple regular and irregular forms Can: ability Must: obligation Have to: necessity Comparative and superlative adjectives Prepositions (place, time) Pronouns Question words Relative clauses There is/There are Verbs + infinitive/ing “When” clauses

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