Grade 9 Homework due on May 6

Excerpt from :The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Read the text ” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, which is a passage from Mark Twain’s novel with the same title . Then answer the comprehension questions that follow it. Remember: A sentence which holds the main idea of a text makes its topic sentence, which gets developed further on by following sentences. Those sentences are called “supporting sentences.”

Key Vocabulary Words Explained:

1- Restless;

2- prayer:

3- Despair:

4- Fidgeted:

5- Eternity:

6- Graveyard:

7- Snore:

You can read about the novel here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer