About This Lesson
The goal of this brief exemplar combined with the one day mini-assessment is to give students the opportunity to use the reading and writing habits they’ve been practicing on a regular basis to discover the rich humor and moral lesson embedded in Twain’s text.This lesson is designed to be done either as part of a full novel study of Tom Sawyer or as a stand-alone reading of a great passage. Aligned to Common Core State Standards: RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.3, RL.7.4, RL.7.5, RL.7.6, W.7.3, W.7.9, SL.7.1, L.7.3, L.7.4, L.7.5, L.7.6