Lesson Plans

“Translating” Twain into Contemporary American Standard English (Huckleberry Finn)

Characterization in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Characterization in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Characterization: Physical Mental, Emotional in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Children’s Decisions 1900s vs. Today, the Same or Different? (Tom Sawyer)

Huck Finn Virtual Book Club

Twain’s Flora & Fauna: Then and Now (Tom Sawyer)

Writing Process Analysis of Huck Finn

Humor in Twain’s Writing: Jim Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn

Improving Introductions and Conclusions in Narrative Writing Using Mark Twain Short Stories As Mentor Texts (Taming the Bicycle; A Medieval Romance; A True Story; A Private History of a Campaign that Failed; Great Dark)

In Sickness and Health (Experiences of the McWilliamses with Membraneous Croup; Tom Sawyer)

Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog

Political Statements Through Short Stories (The War Prayer)

Realism and Naturalism in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Short Stories that Epitomize Twain: “The Jumping Frog,” “Hadleyburg,” “A True Story”

The Dangers of Confidence and Pride with Mark Twain (How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once)

Twain’s Short Stories as an Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Cannibalism in the Cars; A True Story)

Writing an Autobiographical Essay in the Manner of Twain’s “Taming the Bicycle”

Allusion, Burlesque, and Parody in Huck Finn

Exploration of Topics Found in Huck Finn

Family Story Written in the Style of Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer)

Growing Up with Tom and Friends (Tom Sawyer)

Honesty Is the Best Policy (Tom Sawyer, Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg)

Mark Twain and Westward Expansion

Pre-Reading: Contextualizing Huck (Huckleberry Finn)

Strong Temptations aka Fence Painting Scene (Tom Sawyer)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Current Students

The Use of Local Color in Mark Twain’s Huck Finn and “The Invalid’s Story”

Tom Sawyer in Song

Using Mark Twain to Practice Research

Whitewashing in Hannibal (Tom Sawyer)

“How I Edited an Agricultural Newspaper,” “Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral,” “Advice to Youth”

“Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning”

“My Watch”

“The Story of the Bad Little Boy”

“The Story without an End” Closure and Resolution

Authority and Power with the Media and President

Bike for Sale (Taming the Bicycle)

Drawing Inspiration from Mark Twain’s Beloved Mississippi River

Let’s Trade (The Prince and the Pauper)

Mark Twain and the Cause and Effect Plan ($30,000 Bequest)

Reading Strategies for Deeper Understanding of Text (What Stumped the Blue Jays)

Twain and Persuasive Advertising Techniques (Punch, Brothers, Punch)

Twain’s Viewpoint on Racism (Huckleberry Finn)