Puddn'head+Wilson

=Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain=

Picture of Mark Twain courtesy of sfjalar @ flickr.com.

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This page was created by Prairie View A&M students Carrie Newman and Dana Gibson for the course: //Studies in The Novel//. This site includes information on Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson and also includes a variety of lesson plans retrieved from outside sources that are helpful in teaching the novel to students in secondary levels of education. ======

**Teaching Mark Twain's //Pudd'nhead Wilson//**
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Lesson Plan 1: [|Puddn'head Wilson Teaching Unit]

This teaching unit provides an extensive amount of activities that familiarize students with the novel. Contents include comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides, essay and discussion questions, vocabulary lists, and a multiple-choice and essay test with answer key. The overall lesson plan provides students, particularly those in High School English I courses, with a large variety of comprehension of their reading.

Lesson Plan 2:

This teaching unit is more of an extensive source of determining comprehension from Twain's novel. It is better suited for upper-level English courses, such as English III & IV or AP English courses because it examines the use of literary terms and devices and it also overviews the allusion of other texts in relation to the novel. The lesson plan also includes a unit where the history of the novel is examined, and students are expected to answer questions which address the historical context of the text. Vocabulary terms are also included, as well as short answer questions and questions which address the understanding of literary devices. Overall, this unit was very complex and gives the student a more extended sense of comprehension amongst the text and the use of literary style.

Lesson Plan 3:[| www.gradesaver.com/puddnhead-wilson/] This teaching unit is provided by GradeSaver.com. There are several links within the website to help you teach this novel. The topics are study guides, essays for Pudd'nhead Wilson, Wikipedia entries, and recent questions for the novel.

Lesson Plan 4: [|www.lessonindex.com/Pudd'nhead_Wilson_by_Mark_Twain.htm]

This teaching unit can be used for English I-IV. The teacher can modify what she/he needs to get the students to understand this novel. Lessonindex.com offers teaching guides, lesson plans, tests or quizzes, and study guides to Literary criticism of Pudd'nhead Wilson.

[|Lesson Plan 5]

This teaching unit is used for grades 7-12. It is very extensive; it includes multiple sources of instruction material that apply to the grade levels. There is a fee to access the lesson, but it serves as a base for generating ideas. Lesson plans include a variety of daily lessons, interactive activities, multiple choice assessments, short essays, homework assignments, quizzes and tests. There are 129 pages of material included in this lesson plan.

Picture of the front cover courtesy of clampants @flicka.com

**Pudd'nhead Wilson on film**
Here is a link to a silent 50 minute film that was made in 1916 of Pudd'nhead Wilson. [|silenthollywood.com/puddnheadwilson1916] There are also a variety of secondary scholarly sources that focus on various literary approaches to Pudd'nhead Wilson. The following Works Cited page includes thirteen scholarly sources that discuss multiple elements within the text.

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