Mark Twain has arrived!

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This electronic issue celebrating the great American author is everything you've come to expect from READ's e-issues and more! This issue includes the READ treatment of many of Twain's biggest hits and classics. We expect you'll be using this jam-packed issue in your classrooms for a long time to come.

Center Stage
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Click the sun to read our center stage play adaptation of Twain's famous novel about Hank Morgan, one of literature's greatest time travelers. You can choose to project this play onto a big screen, have students read aloud from individual computers, assign it for homework, or use an interactive whiteboard.

Writing Center
Click the life preserver to find a writing assignment demonstrating how Twain creates a sense of place in his work. Then, try our advertising project. Students learn to design an ad for Twain's books based on an actual historic advertisement.

Short Story
Click the frog to read our short story adaptation of Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." We've made the language a little easier to understand, but the long and winding tale stays true to the author's original intent. At the end of the story, students will be presented with a quiz. If they get all 5 questions right, they will proceed on to a very fun game!

Biographical Time Line and House Tour
Click on Mark Twain himself to find everything you've ever wanted to know about the great author. Twain wrote extensively about his own life, so we've included direct quotes from the great author to accompany important dates in our time line. The biography looks like a table of contents in a book. Click on the dates to read a specific "chapter" in Twain's life. In most chapters, we include an audio voiceover of his writing.

Also included in this section is a video tour of Mark Twain's house in Hartford, Conn. The tour is guided by a Mark Twain impersonator.

Animation
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Two great animations of Twain's most popular charcters! First up, Flocabulary presents a bluegrass ditty by Tim Bean and the Tin Cup Band. This creative, original song details the story of Huckleberry Finn. In the second animation, we depict Tom Sawyer as he brilliantly weasels his way out of whitewashing a fence.

Interactive LSI
Voice is arguably the most notable aspect of Twain's writing. In this LSI, we explore voice in several excerpts from Twain's works.

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