Part I:
I chose to undertake one of the great works of Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in my i-search paper. I’ve had to read this book twice during my school years at high school and again at college but my confidence in teaching it is quite low. This story has so many elements involved and controversy that makes it a very challenging book to teach. I want to be able to come to grasps with the main meat of the story by re-reading it a third time and determining exactly how to go through making this story interesting without getting caught up in the racism and hard-to-read language. The hopes I have for this paper is that, when I’m finished, I’ll have a better understanding of the wide breath of the text and how to better illustrate how Huck is feeling without my students doing nearly as much research. I want my students to relate more with Huck and Jim the way I did the second time I read it. I want to find a way to make them appreciate the many different meanings the story contains.
Part II:
To be honest, I have never really had a love of quoted classic works. A Tale of Two Cities is horrible and Little Women drove me insane. I love reading really old works from the Romantic Era and writers like Shakespeare, Milton, Moliere, and other such authors. I also love reading works written today and am a quiet fan of Nicholas Sparks and Mitch Albom. However, in-between these two Eras stand the air of classic literature and it is so hard for me to get interested in them. Therefore, I chose Huckleberry Finn because I need to become more complete as an English teacher. If I can get to a point where I love, or at least like, the stories I will undoubtedly have to teach someday, I know I can get my students to feel the same way. If I dislike a story I’m teaching, they’ll know and they won’t want to learn it either. Thus, writing this i-search paper is twofold, my students will better appreciate classic literature and I will gain a new level of comprehension.
I chose to undertake one of the great works of Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in my i-search paper. I’ve had to read this book twice during my school years at high school and again at college but my confidence in teaching it is quite low. This story has so many elements involved and controversy that makes it a very challenging book to teach. I want to be able to come to grasps with the main meat of the story by re-reading it a third time and determining exactly how to go through making this story interesting without getting caught up in the racism and hard-to-read language. The hopes I have for this paper is that, when I’m finished, I’ll have a better understanding of the wide breath of the text and how to better illustrate how Huck is feeling without my students doing nearly as much research. I want my students to relate more with Huck and Jim the way I did the second time I read it. I want to find a way to make them appreciate the many different meanings the story contains.
Part II:
To be honest, I have never really had a love of quoted classic works. A Tale of Two Cities is horrible and Little Women drove me insane. I love reading really old works from the Romantic Era and writers like Shakespeare, Milton, Moliere, and other such authors. I also love reading works written today and am a quiet fan of Nicholas Sparks and Mitch Albom. However, in-between these two Eras stand the air of classic literature and it is so hard for me to get interested in them. Therefore, I chose Huckleberry Finn because I need to become more complete as an English teacher. If I can get to a point where I love, or at least like, the stories I will undoubtedly have to teach someday, I know I can get my students to feel the same way. If I dislike a story I’m teaching, they’ll know and they won’t want to learn it either. Thus, writing this i-search paper is twofold, my students will better appreciate classic literature and I will gain a new level of comprehension.
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