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Mark Twain Lesson Plans

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Celebrate the birthday of Mark Twain and learn about American life and literature along the great Mississippi River.
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Samuel Clemens: His Autobiography and Famous Quotes

For Teachers 8th - 12th
A discussion of Samuel Clemens autobiography and quotes is a must for any high school English class.
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Homeschooling

For Students 5th
In this homeschooling website, parents are provided with a variety of tools and articles for varying ages and lessons. Parents can browse topics, activities, and support groups.
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Prepositions Anyone? -- Learning to Use Prepositions

For Students 4th - 6th
In this prepositions learning exercise, students read 9 sentences and underline the preposition in each one. Students write 4 original sentences using prepositions to show location, direction, time and a relationship. Students fill in 6...
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I Refuse!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders demonstrate effective use of assertive refusal skills when declining alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. In this assertive refusal lesson plan, 5th graders role play peer pressure situation and write a brief essay on what...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students identify lightning words from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to complete definition and synonym activities. In this word study lesson plan, students discuss lighting words and read a Mark Twain quote. Students then read specific...
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Second Quiz on Combining Sentences

For Students 4th - 6th
In this combining sentences instructional activity, students combine four or five sentences into less sentences. Students combine 6 sets of sentences.
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Slavery in My World: Educating for Peace and Social Change

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research present-day slavery issues in a particular country and present their findings to the class.  For this slavery in our world lesson, students discover the nature and extent of slavery in modern countries,...
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Mark Twain's Hannibal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners research life in Hannibal, Missouri. In this Mark Twain lesson, students analyze primary sources to develop an understanding of life in Hannibal in the late 19th century. This lesson may be used as an introduction to Twain's...
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General Knowledge of Books #66

For Students 7th - 8th
In this general knowledge of books #66 learning exercise, students interactively answer 10 questions about British and American books and authors with immediate online feedback.
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The Language of Our World

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make inferences about characters in poetry. In this literature instructional activity, students read poetry and prose to determine how characters handle conflict in each of the genres.
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Mark Twain- Teaching About American Authors

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Mark Twain lesson plans can shed light on his famous works, like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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Twain's Hannibal

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the life around Hannibal, Missouri, during the latter half of nineteenth century. They use various online and print resources to determine what effects this location had on the writings of Mark Twain. Students...
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Lesson One: Mark Twain and Will Rogers - American Originals

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students research the lives of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. They watch videos and research websites to find information and compile examples of each man's writings which they present to the class.
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Lesson #67 Relative Extrema

For Teachers 12th
  Students test for relative extrema.  In this Calculus lesson, 12th graders investigate the relative extrema of a function and sketch the curve from the given information without the use of a calculator.  
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Pre Reading Huck Finn

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is a preparation for reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It discusses the popularity of the book and the fact that it is one of the most controversial novels ever published. It includes links to a...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It includes background infromation on the author and the text, a list of key terms, essential questions, and discusses the themes of the text...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Review

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is a review to prepare for the final assessment over The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It includes links to Mark Twain's biography, a Huck Finn Test Review, and self-assessment review questions.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit:the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary by providing a list of vocabulary terms and definitions and a crossword puzzle to test your understanding of the terms.
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University of Virginia

Univ. Of Virginia: Folk Beliefs in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia collection 'Mark Twain and His Times' provides an interesting student project by Maureen E. Riedy about the folk beliefs in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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University of Virginia: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

For Students 9th - 10th
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn index page from Stephen Railton's Mark Twain in His Times site. Includes an introduction and photos with links to full texts, more illustrations, reviews, advertising and publicity, and other related matter.
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Newberry: Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and Race in Postbellum America

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module in which students learn how Twain's Huckleberry Finn engaged and challenged popular ideas about slavery and race in nineteenth-century America and examine whether a text can be offensive yet worthwhile.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Critical Ways of Seeing the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

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