print email comment close Mark Twain and American Humor URL: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=327 Description: This lesson plan for high school students examines the "structure and characterization in the short story and consider the significance of humor through a study of Mark Twain's 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.'" Includes links to the short story and to related material on topics such as literary humor (and "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," by Nathaniel Hawthorne). From EDSITEment, a joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and other organizations. Publisher: EDSITEment Library of Congress Subject Headings: American wit and humor Literature -- Study and teaching Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County LII Database Information: Record 20823 created by Maria Brandt on 03/06/2006 Last modification on 03/06/2006 Published: 03/13/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20823