mark twain for reading 3
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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Leghorn
Clemens. He was born in 1835 in a small town in
Missouri, on the Missippi River.
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When he was twelve, his father died, and he went to
work for a printer. He began writing humorous stories when
he was seventeen.
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19th Century Printing Office
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He became a pilot (or driver) of steamboats on the Mississippi River in
1858.
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When the War Between the States stopped boats
from traveling on the river, Clemens became a soldier in the southern
army.
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Confederatesoldier
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But he soon left the army, and in 1861 he went out west to look for gold and
adventure. There, he became a newspaper
reporter.
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San Francisco in the 1800’s
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In 1863 he began writing under the name of Mark
Twain. (“Mark Twain” was a phrase used on riverboats to mean “12 feet (4 yards)
deep.”)
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In 1866, Twain moved to
Connecticut, where he wrote the books that made him famous.
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Mark Twain’s home in Connecticut
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He is best known today for his two novels about boys growing up in small towns
along the Mississippi:Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
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Illustration From the firstedition of Tom Sawyer
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Illustration From the firstedition of Huckleberry Finn
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Twain traveled widely in the United States and Europe. In the last years
of his life, he became famous as a public
speaker.
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He died in 1910.
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“Tom Whitewashes the Fence” is part of
the novel Tom Sawyer.
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Here is some vocabulary for Tom
Whitewashes the Fence:
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whitewash
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whitewash
bucket = pail
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whitewash
a water pump
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whitewash
We use the same word for a modern gas pump.
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marbles
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treasure
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kite
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toy soldiers
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firecrackers
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orange peel