Huck Finn - Chapter 1/ Dialect

1. Read the following regarding dialect in literature

A dialect is a form of language. It is a style of speaking that comes from a language (such as
English or French) but has its own special features and words. A dialect is an offshoot or a subspecies of a language. It usually sounds something like the language it comes from but contains its own distinctive elements, too. There are many dialects in the world, hundreds of thousands of them. In Haiti, they speak a dialect of French, called Creole. In many parts of Italy, they speak different dialects of Italian. It could be said that in the United States there are several dialects of English. African-Americans, for example, have historically used a vernacular or folk style of English. Southerners, too, have their own dialect or variant of English. For a long time, dialect was only used in everyday speech, not in books. But this changed when writers decided to capture dialect on the written page.


2. Go to http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/map/map.html make sure the sound is turned on your computer. Take the quiz to hear different american dialects, then click submit to see how well you did.

3. CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK TO READ THE EXPLANATORY REGARDING DIALECT. THEN CLICK ON CHAPTER 1. READ CHAPTER 1.http://www.literature.org/authors/twain-mark/huckleberry/

4. As you read chapter 1 find 5 examples of unique dialect used in Huck Finn. Record your findings and answer questions about the reading on this page ---https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1w2WO-N_IPZuamZ1KlbYKLZ4iVsF5LUxYFOSzQzsrjjw

5.Then print and turn in.