I have primarily subscribed to this list because I am currently student- teaching in an 11th grade American literature class. I am required to teach _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ to a largely uninterested audience and I was hoping to pick up some tips on how to make it interesting and accessible. Unfortunately, my unit is almost up but I would be interested in hearing any suggestions for my next go-round, if there indeed is one. The students seem most troubled with first, the dialect, and second, the "n-word "(as they prefer to call it). Can anyone suggest references or activities I could use to overcome these problems? One note on the GQ cover--while the cover itself may be an interesting comment on our president-elect and vice-president-elect, I was disturbed by the misleading caricature facing the article itself. It depicts Huck and Tom sailing down the river on the raft; even my students know that the two on the raft were Huck and Jim. An honest mistake? Who knows? Cheers and many thanks for any suggestions, Deidre Holmes