Lesson Plans

Curriculum on Mark Twain and His Books

Help your students understand the social and material culture of Mark Twain’s times through a closer look at the way the family lived in their Hartford house. Expand their knowledge of his literary power beyond Tom and Huck. Learn how the turbulent age he lived in resulted in massive social change, and better understand how Samuel Clemens confronted the “powers-that-were” with funny, often sarcastic commentary.

To help you prepare for your visit or develop your classroom curriculum, we offer a selection of lesson plans. For more information or questions, contact our Educational Program Director:

Craig Hotchkiss
call 860-280-3146 or email craig.hotchkiss@marktwainhouse.org

 

Grades 3–6


  Introduction and Background for Teachers download PDF
  The Adventures of Mark Twain and
Mark Twain’s Times
download PDF
  Mark Twain’s Travels download PDF
  Painting a Picture: Traveling with Words download PDF
  Traveling Like Twain: An Observation Exercise download PDF

Middle and High School


  The Hidden Agenda of Twain’s “War Prayer” download PDF
  Writing Tom Sawyer download PDF
  Teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn download PDF
  Tom, Huck and Susy: Three Views of Childhood download PDF

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Writing at the Mark Twain House

Improve and develop your writing where Twain wrote. Our Writing at the Mark Twain House programs, launched in 2010, have created deep bonds among participants and instructors alike. Click here.