Teacher Resources
The Mark Twain Museum offers many resources to help teachers use Mark Twain in their classrooms. If you need anything beyond what is presented here, contact us and we will attempt to help you.
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Frequently asked questions about Mark Twain.
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Mark Twain's ancestors, family, and descendants.
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Major events of Mark Twain's life.
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List of Mark Twain's books with dates.
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Identifies real people used as inspiration for characters in Twain's books.
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Ready-to-use lesson plans developed by teachers at the Mark Twain Teacher Workshop.
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Notes on the Museum’s Rockwell paintings for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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Information on the Mark Twain Teacher’s workshops held in July – graduate credits available.
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An activity you can print and copy for students on a field trip.
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Information on scheduling a class field trip.
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Other websites with good Mark Twain information.
“The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers; and, besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself had done. There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life - life's "experiences" - are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never knew one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side."
- Taming the Bicycle
