Mark Twain

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Inquiry By Design, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
Dennie Wolf
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English / Language Arts
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High (9-12)

This task asks students to consider whether texts should be edited in order to remove potentially offensive content.

An examination of opinion pieces about the editing of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is followed by a comparison reading of two versions of a scene from...

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Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)
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In this module middle school students analyze a famous work by Mark Twain to determine if it is a satire or humorous work.

This module works well with a unit on genres or American literature. It offers an opportunity teach thinking about content, putting that thinking into writing, and...

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