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PBS

Pbs: Mark Twain's Interactive Scrapbook

For Students 9th - 10th
At this website, venture through the chapters of an interactive scrapbook detailing the life and writings of Samuel Clemens, or Mark Twain. Includes several photographs, quotes, and audio clips. This scrapbook is part of a larger PBS...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:american Lit: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Longhorn Clemens and author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It includes links to a Discovery Education video about Mark Twain (Registration...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Mark Twain/samuel Clemens

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a mixed media biography of Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens. It includes an excellent PowerPoint presentation, "Mark Twain: Life, Works, and Quotations," a list of bibliographical information, a short YouTube video, a list of his most...
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Mark Twain, a Special Report

For Students 9th - 10th
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, a daily news broadcast on PBS, offers a special report on Mark Twain and his missing manuscript, "A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage." A timeline of Mark Twain's life is also provided.
eBook
California Digital Library

Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years

For Students 9th - 10th
From the diaries of his daughter, learn about the later years of the life of Mark Twain.
Website
University of California

The Bancroft Library: Mark Twain at Large

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides extensive information on the author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and his travels here and abroad. The site is broken up into sections that are easily accessed from the first page. This site is full of wonderful...
Website
University of California

Uc Berkeley Library: Mark Twain Takes on Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A great look into the thoughts of Mark Twain and how he feels about certain pieces of art. Tongue-in-cheek, playful and fun. A great link between literature and fine arts for the educator!
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Mark Twain

For Students 3rd - 8th
America's Story covers the adventures of Mark Twain (1835-1910) (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Find out how Samuel Clemens chose his pen name. Learn about the development of the "Great American Novel."
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University of North Carolina

Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read Mark Twain's (1835-1910 CE) book, "Life on the Mississippi," which was originally published in 1883. Download two HTML versions of the text: one providing links to images in the original text and one with images included.
Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Chapter Viii. Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
Site is from "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907-21." Covers Mark Twain himself and critiques on his work.
eBook
Indiana University

Wright American Fiction Collection: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
The full texts to Twain's lesser-known works can be accessed from this site such as "Celebrated Jumping Frog" and "The Innocents Abroad." Read facsimiles of the original books or plain text versions.
Website
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a personal glimpse into the life of master storyteller Mark Twain. Content explores Twain's influences and passions, as well as the reason Twain chose to write the novels that he did.
eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Tom Sawyer Abroad: By Mark Twain.

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad: By Mark Twain" has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Other

Mark Twain House and Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Museum, dedicated to Mark Twain and his legacy and housed in the historic home that Twain had built and where he lived with his family for seventeen years, publishes resources useful to any student of Twain and his writing.
Primary
University of North Carolina

Unc: Mark Twain Old Times on the Mississippi

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read Mark Twain's (1835-1910 CE) "Old Times on the Mississippi." Download the full text, as well as the accompanying illustrations.
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Other

Mark Twin Project: Authoritative Texts, Documents, and Historical Research

For Students 9th - 10th
Access to many of Mark Twain's letters and writings. You can click on "biographies" to read about people mentioned in Twain's writings. Use the user's guide to navigate the site.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Mark Twain, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Two chapters from Huckleberry Finn that offer portraits of "ordinary folks" during the Jacksonian era.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kid's Books: Mark Twain Awards

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a list of Mark Twain Readers Award winners on this site. Also, find a great list of children's books.
Website
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Mark Twain in His Times

For Students 9th - 10th
This etext from the University of Virginia provides a detailed look at Twain's novel "Huckleberry Finn". Included is a complete text with annotations, original illustrations and background on the illustrator, early reviews of the work,...
eBook
World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of a Burlesque Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, A Burlesque Biography.
eBook
World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "The Five Boons of Life"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story "The Five Boons of Life."
eBook
World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "Pudd'nhead Wilson"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, "Pudd'nhead Wilson."
eBook
World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "A Telephonic Conversation"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, "A Telephonic Conversation."
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Other

Twainquotes.com:mark Twain Quotes and Newspaper Articles

For Students 9th - 10th
This Barbara Schmidt site provides hundreds of quotes and original articles about Twain's life, writings, and enduring influence that have appeared in newspapers over the years. There are also special features about Twain and links to...

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