"mississhippi" - 1 õppematerjal

Kontrolltöö 7. klassile (ILE 5) Unit 12

6 In 1900 his toungest daughter also died.  Mark Twain 1 Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835. He grew up in Hannibal, a small town on the Mississippi, USA. He couldn´t go to school for very long and had to leave because his father died when he was eleven. / Although he disliked this job he worked as a printer for about ten years. 2 When he was 21 years old, he decided to start working on a riverboat on the Mississhippi. / He wrote about his experiences in his book Life on the Mississhippi. 3 The Civil War broke out in 1861 / He travelled on the West, where he started working as a journalist and took Mark Twain as his pen name. 4 In 1870 he got married and went to live in Hartford, Connecticut / Amond these were The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which describes the adventures of a boy and black slave, Jim.