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Lesson Plan
PBS

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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Teacher Resource from the Kennedy Center helps students examine where and how humorists derive the material presented to their audiences. Activities encourage students to analyze elements of humor and the style of entertainers, and...
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Primary
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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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: American Literary Humor: Twain, Harris, and Hawthorne

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this curriculum unit, students will consider American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Article
University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South: Library of Southern Literature: Humor in Lit.

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the type and place of humor in Southern authors through information and links to several authors including Mark Twain, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, George Washington Harris, Joel Chandler Harris, and more.