Activity 1: Recite the Book Information
- Recite the name of the author, the title of the book, and the title of the chapter.
Activity 2: Narrate the Story
- Narrate the events aloud in your own words.
Activity 3: Study the Story Picture(s)
- Study the story picture(s) and verbally describe the relation to the story.
Activity 4: Discuss Superstitions
A superstition is a belief grounded in magic or mysticism rather than scientific knowledge.
Over time, many superstitions die due to scientific advances explaining the previously mysterious phenomena.
Study the superstitions Huckleberry Finn and Tom discuss in the chapter involving warts.
SUPERSTITION #1: ORIGIN OF WARTS
- Superstition: Warts come from touching frogs.
- Scientific Explanation: Warts are caused by a virus, not by touching frogs.
SUPERSTITION #2: WART CURE
- Superstition: Warts can be cured by reciting an incantation at midnight in a graveyard while throwing a dead cat after a devil bringing an evil soul back to hell.
- Superstition: Warts can be cured by reciting an incantation while dousing your hand in spunk-water collected in a tree stump.
- Superstition: Warts can be cured by putting wart blood on a bean, burying part of the bean, and burning the rest of it.
- Scientific Cure: Doctors may remove a wart by freezing the wart with liquid nitrogen. People can remove warts themselves by applying over-the-counter remedies such as salicylic acid.
Activity 5: Complete Written Enrichment Activities
- Click the crayon above, and complete pages 76-77 of 'Fifth Grade Prose: Written Narration, Dictation, and Review Questions.'