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"The Glorious Whitewasher" from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain with Mini-Assessment

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It's the classic scene: Tom Sawyer is whitewashing a fence. Expose your learners to Mark Twain's humor while reinforcing reading comprehension. Eighth graders are encouraged to read and reread, achieving as much exposure to the text as possible. Learners synthesize their literary analysis through a narrative writing activity.

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answering questions, act-it-outs, acting, context clues, Vocabulary, the adventures of tom sawyer, mark twain, Narrative Writing, narratives, syntax, sentence structure, paraphrasing, summarizing, close reading, decoding, fiction, humor, literature, prose, reading fluency
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Additional Tags
close reading, fiction, fluency, humor, mark twain, paraphrase, prose, syntax, tom sawyer, vocabulary in context, Discussion, answer questions, decode, reread, text evidence, act-it-out, literature, cite text, whitewash, english language arts
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Pros
  • Extra space lends itself nicely to marking the text
  • The passage is included with bolded vocabulary words to define in-context, and underlined words defined in the margins
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