<p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1"><strong>Name: </strong></li><li style="flex:1"><strong>Date: </strong></li></ul><p></p><p><strong>MARK TWAIN FACTS </strong></p><p><strong>Directions: </strong>Read these facts about Mark Twain. Using the “Main Ideas and Supporting Details” handout, sift and sort them into categories. </p><p>1. Twain’s first famous story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a humorous story about a trick frog owned by a gold miner in California. </p><p>2. Mark Twain was the Vice-President of the American Anti-Imperialist League; he believed that </p><p>the US should not limit the freedoms of people in other countries. </p><p>3. Many of Mark Twains’ younger characters are inspired by his life growing up in Missouri. </p><p>4. Mark&nbsp;Twain was known for wearing all white clothes. </p><p>5. His most famous novels include <em>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer </em>and <em>The Adventures of </em></p><p><em>Huckleberry Finn, </em>which are stories about the adventures of two boys growing up in Missouri. <br>6. After failing as a gold miner in Nevada, Mark Twain got a job as a writer for the <em>Territorial </em><br><em>Enterprise </em>where he developed material for many of his early writings. </p><p>7. Mark Twain’s novels <em>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court </em>and <em>The Gilded Age </em>criticized </p><p>politics in the US. </p><p>8. Early in his career, Mark Twain was considered a writer in the Sagebrush School, a group of writers in Nevada writing about the life of miners in the Gold Rush. </p><p>9. Throughout his life, Twain was concerned with making sure that young people had a chance to learn and grow up in a safe environment. In 1906, he founded The Angel Fish and Aquarium Club for girls. </p><p>10. Mark Twain once said, “I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.” </p><p>Copyright © 2014-2017 ResearchILD.&nbsp;All rights reserved. No unauthorized use or copying. See Terms of Use. </p><p>Lesson 4B.2 </p>