The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Literature Guide (Secondary Solutions Teacher Guide) [Paperback]

Kristen Bowers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2005

As a busy teacher, you don t have time to waste reinventing the wheel. You want to get down to the business of teaching! With Secondary Solutions professionally developed teacher-written Literature Guides, you can address the English/Language Arts content standards while you teach the required core literature! Secondary Solutions has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, while saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work. Our teaching guides will allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching (the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most) and the reason you became a teacher in the first place!

This Secondary Solutions teaching guide for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains 56 pages of student coursework, quizzes, tests, and teacher guides aligned with eighth through tenth grade English / Language Arts content standards. This Guide includes: Author Biography; Anticipation/ Reaction Pre-Reading Activity; Vocabulary List; Vocabulary Building Activities Including Acrostic, Crossword, Word Search, Context Clues, Matching, Spelling, and more; Comprehension Checks and Study Guides; Standards Focus Activities on Satire, Jargon and Slang, Setting, Narrator and Point of View, Tone, Character Types, Theme, and more; Quizzes; Final Test; Pre-Reading Ideas and Activities; Post-Reading Ideas and Activities; Essay/Writing Ideas and Prompts; Project Rubric; Response to Literature Rubric; Complete Answer Key

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About the Author

In 2005, Kristen Bowers, a high school English teacher in California, became frustrated and tired of writing her own worksheets, quizzes, tests, and activities to teach her students the required literature and the content standards on which her students were being tested at the district and state levels. At the time, resources and tools that were available for purchase were not up to her high standards of teaching, so she decided to create these materials herself. Mrs. Bowers set to work to create one of the most comprehensive and innovative Literature Guide sets on the market. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions began, and has since matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed a set of Literature and Writing Guides unsurpassed by all others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 55 pages
• Publisher: Secondary Solutions (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976817705
• ISBN-13: 978-0976817703
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,404,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Kristen Bowers (1974- ) is the founder and President of educational publishing company Secondary Solutions (www.4secondarysolutions.com). After becoming frustrated with the quality and content of teaching materials available to her when she was a new teacher in 2005, Mrs. Bowers decided to create them herself. Joined by a middle school teacher with 21 years of secondary school experience, Secondary Solutions began shortly thereafter, and has since matured into a specialized team of intermediate and secondary teachers who have developed a set of Literature and Writing Guides unsurpassed by all others.

Mrs. Bowers has written over 15 books, including Literature Guides for To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Bud Not Buddy, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Brave New World, and more. She has also written two essay writing guides: Essay Apprentice and Essay Architect.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really great!, August 2, 2005

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Hannah Eliot (Pensacola, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Literature Guide (Secondary Solutions Teacher Guide) (Paperback)

I have looked everywhere for materials to help me teach my 11th graders the novels that are required, but still meet the content standards for Florida. Everything from the vocabulary activities to the post-reading activites are great. I would recommend this guide to all teachers--much better than Teacher Created Materials.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful worksheets - skip the quizzes, December 16, 2009

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Laurel Gremore (Kentucky) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Literature Guide (Secondary Solutions Teacher Guide) (Paperback)

I used several of the worksheets from this book while teaching Huck Finn to my juniors. Each worksheet covers 3-4 chapters and one term or technique (satire, dialect, setting, narrator, tone, details, character, theme). It's a good way to introduce these, or to check for understanding. The worksheets also had enough detail that a sub used two with success while I was out. I gave it 4 stars because the questions on the quizzes and final test seemed like random facts, and most did not go deeper into analysis. There is, however, a good resource at the back with ideas for projects and essays. I would use this book again, and I would buy other products from Secondary Solutions.