1. Tom Sawyer Unit
Questions

2. What is “work”? What is “play”?
How do you know when you are working or playing?

3. Brer Rabbit falls down the well...
1. Read the passage! :)
2. Pull out a piece of paper.
3. Put your name on it, hour and date.

4. “Brer Rabbit Falls Down the Well”
From this story, what lesson can be
learned about trying to get out of
work?
Use RACE to answer the question.

5. Use RACE to answer the question.
2. Why was Brer Rabbit more concerned about others thinking he didn’t want to work, instead of just working?
Use RACE to answer the question.

6. “The Little Red Hen”
From this story, what lesson can be learned about the value of work?
Use RACE to answer the question.

7. 2. In the story it said that Little Red Hen was “Still confident that they would surely help her some day…” But then a few lines later it says, “Feeling that she might have known all the time that she would have to do it all herself…” Why did Little Red Hen continue to ask who would help her after it was clear that the others would not help? *Use RACE to answer the question. Your explanations that prove your point must come from the story.

8. Vocabulary Assignment ???
Look up words 1-10 in the dictionary. Discuss with your partner how the word would have been used in a story about a boy in the 1800’s.
Find words 1-15 in the story with your partner. Use context clues from the story. Give a synonym/definition/explanation for each word or phrase.

9. Tom Sawyer selection
Tom Sawyer looked on the activity of whitewashing the fence as work. Yet he was able to convince the other boys that the same activity was fun. In fact, not only did they think it would be fun, they were so excited to do the whitewashing that they were willing to pay for it. What is it that can make the same action either work or fun?
(Especially focus on the interaction between Tom and Ben).
*Answer the question using RACE. Use specific examples from the story to back up your answer. Use additional examples from real life to help prove your point.

10. Tom learned something valuable that
day about work and play, drudgery
versus enjoyment. He was able to
see things from a new perspective.
What did he learn that would be
valuable to him (or you as the reader)
when approaching “work”?
*Give a RACE answer for this question.
Restate the question
Answer the question.
Cite Evidence from the text to justify
your answer
Explain your answer.

11. Complete the Venn Diagram comparing the 3 stories.
Do this part together as a class then answer the question on the next slide using RACE.

12. What are the main differences between the 3 stories?
Comparing the 3 Stories
I DO
Use RACE to answer this question:
What are the main differences between the 3 stories?
Cite evidence from the texts to prove your point.

13. What are the main differences between the 3 stories?

14. How do the characters in the 3 stories feel about work?
Comparing the 3 Stories
WE DO
Use RACE to answer this question:
How do the characters in the 3 stories feel about work?
Cite evidence from the texts to prove your point.

15. What are the main similarities between the 3 stories?
Comparing the 3 Stories
YOU DO
Use RACE to answer this question:
What are the main similarities between the 3 stories?
Cite evidence from the texts to prove your point.

16. You will need 2 lined pieces of paper
You will need 2 lined pieces of paper. Put your name and the date at the top.
1. Tom collected some interesting things as pay from the boys who worked for him. Pick three of those items and explain how/why you think they had value for Tom.
*Answer the question using RACE

17. If you were a modern day Tom Sawyer, what things would you probably be collecting as pay from each of the workers?
Pick three items you think you could truly get as pay (nobody would give you their iPhone, or Xbox, etc.)
Why do those things have value to somebody your age in today’s world?
Answer the question using RACE

18. #3 Tom comes up with his play to try and get Ben to do his work
#3 Tom comes up with his play to try and get Ben to do his work. Paragraphs 8-30 is the dialog between the boys. Your job is to rewrite these paragraphs. You need to change three things: a.) You need to have a modern day job that a parent might actually expect you to do (no painting). b.) You need to have a modern day payment that Ben gives to Tom. c.) You need to use modern day language It took Mark Twain 434 words to write this part. You need to have words.

19. This is what the author said after Tom’s experience.
“Tom discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”