"Mark Twain" Teaching Resources :: 289

Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th

This site provides a biography of Mark Twain which includes the origin of his pseudonym. Quotes from several of his books are included.

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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: A Brush With History: Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th

This portrait of Mark Twain painted by John White Alexander is accompanied by information about the artist himself.

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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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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mark Twain: Storyteller, Novelist, and Humorist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th

By examining two primary source activities and a short video, students will learn how this literary icon used humor and a uniquely American voice to chronicle post-Civil War life in the United States.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th

This ebook shares the memoir of Mark Twain. The memoir provides insights into the author's experiences when he worked as a piliot on a steamboat that traveled along the Mississippi River. The author begin with a history of the...

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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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PBS

Pbs Teachers: On Stage at the Kennedy Center: 2001 Mark Twain Prize: Twain and R

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Use this instructional activity to study the lives of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Analyze the writing styles of both authors, and identify the men as humorists who reflected and changed American culture.

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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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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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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.

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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

For Students 5th - 9th

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (c1884), a humorous novel about slavery.

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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.

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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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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Was It Heaven? Or Hell?" by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th

Is it ever okay to tell a lie? This question is at the heart of the story about four devout Christian women who live together and hate lying only to end up lying to one of their own. Read the full text of the short story "Was it Heaven?...

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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale" by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th

The full text of the short "Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale" by Mark Twain. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance" by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th

The full text of the short "The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance" by Mark Twain. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

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