This resource is a remix of the Digital Public Library of America's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain." That resource provides a quite a bit of supplemental material for helping students conceive and digest Twain's novel. 

Karen Russell's novel was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and deals with many of the same thematic and situational archetypes as Twain's novel that is more than a century older. Both take place on frontiers. Both involve adolescent protagonists. Both confront poverty. Both ask what is a home, what is civilization, what is the individual. Both thrust their protagonist's into dangerous world. The answers are not always pleasant. 

When I've taught Russell's novel, I have always provided it as an option for students on a long list of other options. The students who have read it have almost always loved it and cared more deeply about it than the students who chose other books. Certain passages I provide close reading materials for or have students journal in response to. This resource does not really pertain to those activities. I was looking at the Digital Public Library's Huck Finn resource, and I had an idea. What if students were asked to provide such materials for Swamplandia!?

In other words, consider having students provide the visual supplements and historical materials that would help someone from outside the 21st century better understand Russell's novel. Maybe that's lazy on my part. After all, you clicked here looking for resources, and all I'm saying is have your students find them. And yet doing so might inform us as teachers what it is they see in a book when they rifle through its pages.