Introduction to Mark Twain and life in the 1800s
Tom Sawyer focusing on the childhood of one rapscallion boy's life. His childhood may be hard to understand if you don't understand what life was like during these 1800's. So it is important for us to look at how the culture and life of the times affects the life and times of our character. Remember literature influences culture and culture influences literature! For the rest of class today, and class tomorrow you will be researching your assigned topic. On Monday you will be teaching your class about this particular age group. You can do a prezzie, or power point, powtoon, or some other sort of animated presentation.
In Your Presentation
Topics
In Your Presentation
- Describe the conditions in the 1800’s for each of the 8 categories listed
- Describe how those conditions might affect a young person’s behavior and attitudes.
- Explain why the behavior and attitudes of a young person living today might be different.
- Be easy to follow
- Contain no/minimal spelling and grammatical errors
- Use color and graphics appropriately to capture interest and make your points clear
- Included at the end 3-5 quiz questions for your classmates
- Included at the end 2-3 MLA cited sources (noodle tools express will help you)
Topics
- Work Life - Hunter
- Home Life - Eddie
- Slavery - Jon
- Religion - Alex
- Education - Faith
- Leisure Activities - Zach
- Medicine - Wes
- Industrial Revolution/Technology - Warren
- Superstitions - Connor
- Mark Twain - Noah
- Politics - Brock
- Work events - Ethan
Twain's opinion on adults and boyhood
As one of Twain's early, and consequently more optimistic works, he still makes his opinion known about adults, and children and their relationships with one another.
Mark Twain claimed that many of the events in Tom Sawyer came from his own experience. Check out this digital scrapbook and answer the following questions about the "Tom Sawyer days". http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/scrapbook/index.html
1) Why do you think Twain's mother said this?
2) How does the "model boy" compare to Twain's own tale? What about the boys in story? Why does Twain say he was more disappointed by these boys' success?
3) From Twain's Advice to Youths speech - What does the quote reveal about Mark Twain’s opinions of young people and adults. Also what it reveals about his sense of humor and style of writing. How does Aunt Polly's realization about the cat and the medicine connect to this opinion?
4) What do these pranks and play tell you about Twain himself? What instances of Tom's life do these remind you of?
5) How are you like Twain? How are you different?
Mark Twain claimed that many of the events in Tom Sawyer came from his own experience. Check out this digital scrapbook and answer the following questions about the "Tom Sawyer days". http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/scrapbook/index.html
1) Why do you think Twain's mother said this?
2) How does the "model boy" compare to Twain's own tale? What about the boys in story? Why does Twain say he was more disappointed by these boys' success?
3) From Twain's Advice to Youths speech - What does the quote reveal about Mark Twain’s opinions of young people and adults. Also what it reveals about his sense of humor and style of writing. How does Aunt Polly's realization about the cat and the medicine connect to this opinion?
4) What do these pranks and play tell you about Twain himself? What instances of Tom's life do these remind you of?
5) How are you like Twain? How are you different?