Down the River II

Sep 22, 2026


the american south

⋮⋮ Program

  • 12.05 Grammatik: Substantiver II
  • 12.50 Break
  • 13.05 Reading
  • 13.35 Creative writing
  • 14.05 Break
  • 14.20 Pronuciation

Grammatik: Substantiver II

  • Se edaptio

Reading

  • Read chapter 2 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • Find similarities between Huck and Jim. Look into their everyday lives and what things they want in life.
    • How do you think their friendship will develop based on the information you get in the first two chapters?
    • Huckleberry Finn is an icon in American literature and is still read in American high-schools today. What themes does the novel deal with that we can still relate to today?
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Creative writing

  • Do one of the creative exercises on the handout.

Pronuciation

  1. Choose a paragraph that you want to imitate. Listen to that paragraph carefully, sentence by sentence, and notice how the reader stresses each word in the sentence.
  2. Practise reading the paragraph
  3. When you are ready, individually record your perfect reading/imitation of the paragraph. Use e.g. Audacity
  4. Listen to your recording back to back with the audiobook and notice any deviations.
  5. Practise deviations found in 4. and re-record your reading.

Materials