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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore the cave described in Mark Twain's famous novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. They read a passage from the book and explore how the cave has been used throughout history. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the age of majority in the US and voice an opinion of the multiple age system as opposed to a single age designation. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students read and analyze the first two chapters of Mark Twain's novel, "Tom Sawyer." They describe character traits, write an essay, and create a poster of their interpretation of the whitewash scene. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students identify words that can be used to describe Mark Twain's character Tom Sawyer. Students explore stage production of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by reading and discussing "An Older (and Calmer) Tom Sawyer". They develop their own original composite characters, which they create by selecting three or more adjectives or personality trait-related phrases. Finally they write their own short stories, or one-act plays. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore web site devoted to Mark Twain, discuss importance of Internet in literature, and grasp usefulness of digital archives. Students then write journal entries based on reactions to web site. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students locate information about Tom Sawyer on Internet, discuss good and bad marketing strategies, recognize that marketing tactics change with different periods in history, and write journal entries explaining what was interesting to them on web sites. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students identify settings within literary works. They locate descriptive language in literature and describe the purpose of settings with in literature. They work in pairs to create the setting of the chapter on paper. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students pretend they are going on a trip to Mars as they close their eyes and visualize the journey. They discuss what they saw on the journey to determine how one student may visualize something different than another. Next, they begin reading Mark Twain's, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, visualizing while they read. Finally, they watch the movie to compare it with their thoughts and draw a picture of the story as an assessment. Full Review »
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- 7th - 9th
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Students explore the concept of visualization as a means of comprehending what they read. Through modeling, they discover how to create mental pictures of what they read. They read the first chapter in "Tom Sawyer" and draw pictures of what they visualized as they read. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students read in class the novel The Adventures of Tom Sayer by Mark Twain. They can choose to find song lyrics from any artist that they feel define one of the characters in the book, illustrate a scene from the book or create their own dictionary with words from the novel. Full Review »
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