JoshuaP8F-Mark+Twain

My historical figure> Mark Twain

 **__Phase 1: K-W-L paragraph__**

1. What do I already know about my historical figure? 2. What more do I want to learn? 3. Where can I go to find out more information? 4. What did I learn?

I choose Mark Twain because he was a very interesting guy. He was famous for his writings. Some examples are ‘__Adventures of Tom Sawyer’__, ‘__Huckleberry Finn__’, and __‘Prince and the pauper’.__ He wasn’t much educated but he was very talented in writing. These books made him gain the title of ‘Father of American Literature’. His name Mark Twain isn’t his real name, it’s Samuel L. Clemens. I loved his books like Tom Sawyer which made me think of me when thinking about writers during civil war (because he started to write books when the civil war broke out). These facts made me to want to know more of about him. Like I said, I think Mark Twain is very intriguing man. He might have lived a successful but tragic life. I want to know how he is such a good writer when only educated in elementary school. Also, I really want to find out how his fake name is Mark Twain. It should have a meaning to it. I also found out from people that his ‘childish’ books like __Adventures of Tom Sawyer__ has a deep meaning. His whole life is what I also want to dig into. Most generally, 80% of the information can be found online-data based. His bibliographical books can be lots of help. Specifically, abc-clio, wikipedia, holt-textbook, google, and library database could be very good sites to look at including Mark Twain official websites. Books are really hard to find, but books like ‘life of Mark Twain’ can be helpful. I’ve learned that Mark Twain lived a very sad life. His life was about death itself kind of. First when he was 3 of 6 children that survived. At 11, his father died.

At the age of 23, he pulled his brother in a steamboat job and ‘killed’ him. When he was married, 3 of his children were dead. At last, his wife died much earlier than

him. The books that he wrote were kind of like his own dreams and his thoughts put in in a kind of a ‘twisted’ form.

**__Phase 2: Historical Question__ **
 question-How did Mark Twain's background influence on his views on slavery? was he racist? What information expected?- I expect to find things that refer to books and quotes, which he strongly disagree with slavery. He was grown up in Florida, which was a slave state and had contact with slavery everyday. Unlike Uncle Tom's Cabin, Huckleberry Finn was a literature, comment masterpiece which was written to oppose slavery, but not like a propaganda. What informations resources will you first use to find answers?- I'll be using encyclopedia, quotes, and comments on his books. Places I can look for> -ABC clio -University of Berkeley (research papers) -Wikipedia -Huckleberry Finn book summary -perspectives and papers written during that time or this time

__Phase 3: Primary Sources__ 1. The adventure of Huckleberry finn 2. Quote: **“The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name” 3. Quote: "Man is the only Slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living." 4: Quote: "The skin of every human being contains a slave." >>Quote sites __-http://classiclit.about.com/od/marktwainfaqs/f/faq_mtwain_slav.htm -http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_blunting_effects_of_slavery_upon_the/180147.html__ __-http://www.twainquotes.com/newspapercollections.html__ >>Helpful sites __-http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/access.html__ >>Videos __-http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?bcpid=1184539009&bclid=1201016459&bctid=1207874371__ ** SORRY I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO LINK THE SITES!!!!!!!!

__Phase 4: Secondary Sources__
__http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/vlp15_twain.asp http://www.online-literature.com/twain/ http://classiclit.about.com/od/huckleberryfinnfaqs/f/faq_huck_slave.htm http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/wilson/slavery/mtslavhp.html__

__Phase 5: Writing a Thesis__ 

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