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American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Brown, Don | Illustrator: Brown, Don |
| Title: American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain | Date: 2003 |
| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin | City: Bpston |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-618-17997-6 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): biography and autobiography, easy reading | |
GED Descriptor(s): literature and arts |
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Summary: |
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| This biography of Sam Clemens focuses primarily on his childhood. Readers will see many parallels between young Sam's adventures and those of his famous characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. | |
Teaching Ideas: |
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| The relationship between childhood and adulthood will be interesting to explore with this book. In writing classes, teachers will want to draw attention to how cleverly Clemens/ Twain used the guidance "write what you know" in his own work, perhaps using a Venn diagram strategy. Since Clemens wrote for newspapers, students could write vignettes from "interviews" with characters from his stories. A Yahooligans search on Mark Twain will yield many interesting online resources, including online versions of _Tom Sawyer_ and _Huck Finn_. | |
Teaching Strategies: |
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 Creating a Classroom Magazinehttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/create_class_zine.pdf |
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Discussion Webs http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/discussion_webs.pdf |
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Helping Students in the Writing Process http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf |
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Venn Diagrams http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf |
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Unsent Letters http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/unsent_letters.pdf |
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