Similarities and differences
				Ask your students to list how Finn: a novel is similar to Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in plot, characterization, narrative structure, overarching themes, and setting. Then ask them to make a list of the key differences between the novels.
					The "similarities" list might look something like this: first person narration colloquial wilderness vs. civilization slave Jim/illegal immigrant Silvia murderous parent foster home faked suicide life on the run posing as the opposite sex childhood vs. adulthood the river		The "differences" list might look something like this: girls vs. boys hateful mother vs. hateful father long river journey vs. urban journey great distance traveled vs. no distance traveled tormenting Jim vs. trying to save Silvia America then and now