Community Projects
The Mark Twain Museum regularly collaborates on various projects. If you have an idea for a project, contact us!
Mark Twain Young Authors
Students from around the country participated in the Mark Twain Young Authors Workshop in 2007, 2008, and 2010. They created and contributed virtual tours to our website. If you are unable to visit the museum, or are preparing to visit us, these virtual tours provide background information and provide an idea of what you can expect to see during your visit. The 2007 participants created a virtual tour of artifacts on display in the Mark Twain Museum Gallery, and the 2008 participants created tours of the following important landmarks:
Mark Twain Museum Interpretive Center
School Projects
Recently we collaborated with three Highland Elementary School teachers - Tracy Marold, Traci Mosby, and Chrissy Abell. These teachers attended one of our week-long workshops last summer, and now they sponsor "Twain's Travelers" - a group of 20 third and fourth grade students that meet every Monday after school to study Mark Twain's adventures in Following the Equator. The students each created a passport in which they record countries "visited" through books they have read. They also created a calendar of Mark Twain quotes (since each chapter in Following the Equator begins with a quote) and a travel brochure illustrating countries visited by Twain during his travels. They are presently working on a picture book about Twain's travels, which they plan to submit to Scholastic Books "Kids Are Authors" program. The students have already visited the museum to hear a lecture about Twain's travels to Russia. We are proud of these teachers for expanding their students' horizons with Mark Twain.
The students of Dr. Caroline Collins of Quincy University wrote papers for their African-American literature class. The papers focus on providing helpful background to a particular historical period, but they also bring in segments of literature from or about the period. Students' final projects are shared below:
Following the Unpaved Path includes local history with mentions of the Lincoln-Douglas debate and the Eels House, a safe house for runaway slaves in Quincy, Illinois.
The Jazz Age addresses some of the aftermath of slavery.
If you have an idea for a community project, please contact us.
