Read book: Who Was Mark Twain
Scrapbook: Follow the timeline, pictures, and facts on the following link:
http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/scrapbook/
Read: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/price/frog.htm
Creative Historical Interview Essay: (IEW)
1. Think about possible topics:
what did Mark Twain do?
what was happening in History during his life?
what might he have cared greatly about?
2. Out of these questions-pick 3 topics that you think would be good
a. who, what, why, when, how
b. consider what Mark Twain thought about his banned book: Huck Finn, or what he thought about the civil war, slavery, life on a riverboat.....
3. Outline
4. Write a five paragraph essay
a. background info (birthdate/other miscellaneous info not chosen as main points) goes in intro
b. Most significant topic noted in the conclusion
