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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Huck Finn in Context: A Teaching Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From the PBS series, "Culture Shock," this teaching guide deals with the controversies that have surrounded the teaching of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The guide is designed to help teachers find reasonable...
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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.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Great reading guide for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain. Provides pre-reading material, including an author bio, book introduction, background articles, and journaling activities, as well as charting and brainstorming ideas...
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eBook
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Audio Books

For Students 9th - 10th
A special subcollection of Project Gutenberg's online book catalog: audio books, recorded by real people (there is also a computer-generated audio books collection). Currently includes 35 or so selections ranging from fairy tales,...
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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.
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Website
Other

Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: 1880 1889

For Students 9th - 10th
The 1880's in America were chock full of new architecture, technologies, businesses, modern conveniences such as gas and electric, operas, fashions, and much more as featured in this resource.
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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.
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eBook
Planet eBooks

Planet E Book: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is available here in PDF format. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which was first released in 1884, is 397 pages pages long.
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eBook
Planet eBooks

Planet E Book: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain is available here in PDF format. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was first released in 1884, is 285 pages pages long.
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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...
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Gilded Age 1870 1900: Political Corruption in Postbellum America

For Students 11th - 12th
Read about federal politics during the Gilded Age and why not much was accomplished during this time.
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer

For Students 9th - 10th
Guide to Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, including historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with handouts, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show, with transcripts,...
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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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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.
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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.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Regional Realism: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography features Mark Twain as a regional realist author, world renown for his ability to portray real Americans in the late nineteenth century. Click "Mark Twain Activities" for artifacts and activities.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

For Students 9th - 10th
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer index page from Stephen Railton's Mark Twain in His Times collection. Links to full text, reviews, illustrations, advertising and publicity, and other resources to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: A Literature of Democracy [Pdf]

For Teachers 11th
For this lesson, 11th graders explore the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his call for literature that was uniquely American. They then consider how Emerson would have responded to writings by Henry Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet...
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide for the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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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.
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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,...
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Website
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Mark Twain in His Times

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive look at Mark Twain and many of his novels. "Innocents Abroad", "Tom Sawyer", "Huck Finn", "Connecticut Yankee", and "Pudd'nhead Wilson" are covered. Links are available to the full texts, illustrations, advertising and...
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The Newberry Library

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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Activity
University of Virginia

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.