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 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Historical and Cultural Influences

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 Click here for student worksheet with assessment.

 

Visit Hannibal, Missouri

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"The City that Mark Twain Made Famous" (from SIRS Discoverer)

 

 

Famous Quotes from Mark Twain:

 "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember
anything."

 

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."

 

steamboat

 Steamboats

Sounds of the Steamboat

 

Caves

 

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lightning

Signs and Superstitions

Superstitions in Tom Sawyer

 

Tom Sawyer Days: Twain Scrapbook

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hannibal
Image from American Memory-Library of Congress

Everyday Life in the mid-1800s

 

Baltimore County Public Schools

This page originally created by K. Taylor, Perry Hall Middle School

Update by J. Caldwell, Perry Hall Middle School

Latest update: April 2008