The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities: Mark Twain: Writer, Salesman, Marketeer

Kind of Activity:

Collaborative Writing

Objective:

To understand the history of books as commodities; to understand Mark Twain as a salesman and a writer; to create a marketing campaign.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.9

Structure:

Break the class into small groups. Each group will work together to produce a marketing campaign for Mark Twain's brand new novel of childhood adventure, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

First: Lead the class in a discussion of Twain as a best selling author, and Twain saw writing not as an artistic calling, but as a vocation, as a way to become...