dilluns, 19 de març del 2012

TOM SAWYER

Tom Sawyer wiki: GROUP work (2-3)
write a summary of every chapter+ new vocabulary (15 words minimum)
Answer the questions:

1. What do you know about Mark Twain?

Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. he was born in Florida, Missouri, USA in 1835. In 1839 he and his family went to live in Hannibal, Missouri, a town in the mississippi river. Young Samuel grew up there and as a boy he had many adventures on the river.
He began working as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi in 1857 but in 1861 he went to the West. He traveled to Nevada and then to California. In San Francisco, California, he began working as a journalist for the Morning Call. Here he changed his name to Mark Twain. In 1865 he wrote the short story, "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras country". It was a great succes and Mark Twain became a famous writer. He traveled to many places in the world. He married Olivia "Livy" Langdon and he had three daughters, and the family lived in Hartford, Connecticut. Here he wrote his three great novels, The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi and the adventures of huckleberry finn. People everywhere liked his humorous style and satire. Mark Twain died in 1910 and he was seventy-four years old.

2. Write a summary of each chapter. Add images/videos...

Chapter 1:
Aunt Polly ordered to Tom and his friends to paint the fence. His friends painted the fence and Tom wasn't worked, he sat in one three, because he wasn't like paint the fence.


Chapter 2:
Tom and his family was in a church, hen the reverend started speaking, Tom took the black beetle out of his pocked. There was a little dog in the church, and it began barked  in the church. 
Tom met his friend Huckleberry Finn, after that Tom was sitting next to the new girl and he meet her.

Chapter 3:
One night, Tom and his friend, Huck,  went to the graveyard, they listen some voices and they think that there ghost, after discovered there was any ghost, there are Dr. Robinson, Injun Joe and Muff Potter. Muff Potter fell to the ground and Injun Joe, kill Dr. Robinson. Injun Joe put the knife in the hand of Muff Potter, and he tell, You killed Dr. Robinson. Tom and Huck were loking all the scene.

Chapter 4:
Tom and Huck promise that they didn't say anything about what happened in the graveyard.Huck, Joe and Tom wanted to be pirats and they went to Jackson's Island.All the people in the town though they were dead and the day of the funeral, they apeared in the church.All the people celebrateda party, because they were there.

3. Write a description of the main characters.

5. Write your group summary in Tom Sawyer's wiki 

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