Religion: Then and Now Group Project

• Huck Finn English 11 Group Project to look at religion and make a multi-media presentation of then and now

Quick Brainstorm: 1/10/2008

• Isreal
• Middle East
• Some religions against Movies being shown
• Moral questions
  • Now: Abortion
  • Now: Gay Marriage
  • Book: Slavery
• Book: Guns at feet in church
  • Hypocracy
  • Real world church
• Huckabee (religious minister) running for office
  • How in book???
• Now: Why do people go to church?
  • Tradition (like book)

Technical: 1/11/2007

• Too hard to do entire thing video
• PowerPoint
  • Lots of pictures and viedo and text
• Video intro

Topics

• Non-involvement/Tradition
  • Book: Grangerfords not listening to sermon
  • Now: Interview people and ask them why they go to church
• Morals
  • Book: Questions over slavery
  • Now: Stem Stell, Abortion?, Gay Marriage? debate
• Religion Helps

Book: Moral Questions Over Slavery

• Aunt Sally says "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt." after she was told that no one was hurt but it killed a slave
• Huck concerned that Jim stealing his children was stealing and felt bad
• Conflicted several times about turning Jim in
  • Society says he should; but he sees Jim as a human
• Miss Watson's religious nature doesn't make her immediately decide not to consider selling Jim down the river or see that slavery was wrong
• Stealing someone from slavery was considered the "wrong" thing to do.
  • Huck amazed Tom would help (Tom knew Jim was already free)
• Mary Jane very upset slave family separated
• Slaves treated as sub-humans