dilluns, 19 de març del 2012

Tom Sawyer wiki: GROUP work (2-3)
write a summary of every chapter+ new vocabulary (15 words minimum)
Answer the questions:

1. What do you know about Mark Twain?
  Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. he was born in Florida, Missouri, USA in 1835. In 1839 he and his family went to live in Hannibal, Missouri, a town in the mississippi river. Young Samuel grew up there and as a boy he had many adventures on the river.
He began working as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi in 1857 but in 1861 he went to the West. He traveled to Nevada and then to California.  In San Francisco, California, he began working as a journalist for the Morning Call. Here he changed his name to Mark Twain. In 1865 he wrote the short story, "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras country". It was a great succes and Mark Twain became a famous writer. He traveled to many places in the world. He married Olivia "Livy" Langdon and he had three daughters, and the family lived in Hartford, Connecticut. Here he wrote his three great novels, The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi and the adventures of huckleberry finn. People everywhere liked his humorous style and satire. Mark Twain died in 1910 and he was seventy-four years old.



2. Write a summary of each chapter. Add images/videos...


Chapter 1 TOM AND THE FENCE
In this chapter, they explain the life of Tom Sawyer. Aunt Polly ordered Tom to paint the fence, because it was saturday and he must work. He didn't like paint  and when his friends came he lied at them. He told everybody that paint the fence was funny so his friends finally painted all the fence. Aunt polly was very happy.

Chapter 2 TOM AND HUCK
It was Sunday and Tom was required to go to the sunday's school. After, him and his family went to the church and a dog barked a lot for a beetle. It was funny for Tom. The next day, Monday, when Tom was going to school he met Huck, -a boy who lives in streets and had no house- and as he had a dead cat so they decided to go to the graveyard at night. After that, Tom arrived to school (later, like always) and he sat with Becky Tatcher, the girl that Tom was in love.When was midnight Huck and Tom went to the graveyard with the dead cat.

Chapter 3 THE GRAVEYARD
When Huck and Tom were in the graveyard they saw three men in front of a grave, they're were Muff Potter, Dr. Robbinson and Injun Joe, grave robbers. Dr. Robbinson wanted dead boddys for study them and Injun Joe offered him to
3. Write a description of the main characters.

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