English 9

Following the reading of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, students were given a series of project options for their final term assignment. Some of these included traditional assignments to capture the flavour of the novel but in a different form—such as a short story or one-act play or long poem. Students were encouraged to take a risk by experimenting with a project choice that involved developing a new set of skills. Two groups of students worked on a film, while two students decided to build a replica of Huck and Jim's raft. Working under the direction of Mr. Boyce, they discovered both the pleasure as well as some of the frustration of working with original materials. Resisting the temptation to use contemporary tools, their project, completed last week and ready for launching on Wednesday, demonstrated how much more physical life was for people living more than150 years ago.

Click here to read their Guide to Raft Building.

– Jim Kingstone, Head of English