Hello students
“[Mark Twain] is surprisingly relevant right now. When you look at how much he wrote and the breadth of the subjects he wrote about, you know that if he were alive today, he would totally be a blogger.”
— Rebecca Fitting, an owner of the Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, quoted in the 2010 article “Mark Twain’s Autobiography Flying Off the Shelves.”
Just wanted to share a few things with you that will go with our reading of Huck Finn. We will be discussing the new edition that is removing some of the language and some of the news coverage it has received. Here are some of the resources we will use.
NYTimes Book Critique discusses change
S Colbert
Does One Word Change Meaning?
Students are given a chance to have their say
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