Mark Twain Interactive Biography - American Literature and Author Study - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This Mark Twain interactive biography turns the riverboat pilot who became America's most quoted writer into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) from a printing shop in Hannibal to the pilot house on the Mississippi, out to the silver camps of Nevada, into the Hartford house where he wrote Huckleberry Finn, and through the bankruptcy and grief of his last years. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering the Hannibal boyhood and the printer's trade, the river years and the flight west to Nevada and California, the travel book and the marriage and the Hartford house, the bankruptcy and the round-the-world lecture tour that paid it off, and the white suit and the darkening final decade - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 49 events setting Twain's life beside the steamboat era and the Civil War, the western silver rush, the Gilded Age he named, and the imperial wars he attacked in print - Map: Thirteen places that shaped the story, from Florida and Hannibal in Missouri through St. Louis and New Orleans, Virginia City and San Francisco, the Quaker City voyage, Elmira and Hartford, a round-the-world lecture tour, and Stormfield in Connecticut - Connections: A 22-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including his wife Olivia Langdon, his editor and friend William Dean Howells, Ulysses S. Grant whose memoirs he published, Bret Harte