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Hello dear friends,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Participants from gymnasia #7, Sevastopol,

raine, are going to spea a"ot Mar $wain%s staying in the Crimea, in general,and or native city Sevastopol, in particlar& So the contry we are going to chooseis raine& 'n yor pro(ect it is shown as former )ssia& *e have already preparedsome material a"ot his meeting with the )ssian t+ar and some otstanding people,his first letters from rope and some interesting facts a"ot his arriving toSevastopol& *arm regards,

Larisa Stepanenko and Andry Tarasenko&

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2n Novem"er 45, 6555 we had an interesting party, devoted to the 489th anniversary of Mar$wain, one of children%s favorite writers& $here was a lot of preparation and hard wor "efore it&

ach grade has prepared an isse of wall newspaper, performed a favorite episode from his "oos, sng his favorite songs& *e also had a competition of the "est essays on the topic : Mar$wain in my life&: 2r stdents have done many illstrations to $wain%s stories and their favoriteepisodes from his "oos& *e organi+ed a competition of nglish and -merican poetry devoted tothe great satirist%s anniversary and are very happy to say that all these events were a sccess&veryone in or gymnasia loves reading $wain%s "oos & *e have some of them in nglish at or school li"rary&

Victor Shkarlat, gymnasia #7, Sevastopol, Ukraine&

The First Travel Letter from Europevery"ody nows that in ;<7 Mar $wain, a yong (ornalist, too a long voyage to rope

and the Middle ast contries on "oard the steamer :=arer City:&

0ring this voyage he sent series of travel letters to the :-ltaCalifornia: newspaper from different sea ports& $here were 84 letters,

"t it%s very remara"le that his first travel letter was sent to Phi9ladelphia from the Crimea 44 years ago&'t was devoted to the description of the Crimea in general and

Sevastopol in particlar& He also told a"ot their staying :in a small

settlement Yalta: >it shold "e mentioned that now Yalta is a large

famos health9resort on the Soth Coast of the Crimea?&

-ll the other 86 newspaper articles contained information a"ot ha"its,

traditions and ways of life of different peoples& $he athor sed "itter

satire descri"ing them, "t speaing a"ot Sevastopol he seriosly

showed heroic deeds of the inha"itans of the first defence >;8@9;88?

in the Crimean campaign&

Mar $wain said that pro"a"ly there was no other city not only in

)ssia "t in the whole world that had "een destroyed as mch as Se9

vastopol&

Nastya Kapuza,

Irina Antipina,

Ukraine,

Sevastopol,

Aymnasia #7



Twain's Arrival to Sevastopol

Here are some interesting facts a"ot $wain%s staying in or city& $rish athorities had warned

-mericans a"ot strict cstoms rles in Sevastopol& So Mar $wain was "rave enogh when he

left the steamer with the passport of his neigh"or as he had lost his own one& -nd what happened

neBt Nothing special& $hogh the great satirist didn%t loo lie his neigh"or, there wasn%t

anything to worry a"ot& Cstoms officers didn%t as any papers at all& So the writer and his 5

-merican friends were allowed to see Sevastopol rins& $hey visited Malahov Mont,

'nerman, /alalava, Navy Hospital& Here Mar $wain piced p a cannon"all which is now

eBhi"ited in his msem in the town of Hanni"al on the "ans of the Mississippi )iver&

Irina Kostenko&

8&5&655

Valeria Bogdanova,Grade 8-b

Gymnasia No7

evastopol

Ukraine

I HAVE NEVE EA! "#E $HEE%U& B##'()

I have read a few works by Mark Twain. But I liked them

all very much. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was the most

favourite one. This work has struck me with its cheerful fun and

ironic tone. I enjoy its rapid and intensive life cheerful and sometimes defiant lau!hter.

I think that for Mark Twain this returnin! to childhood

was somethin! more si!nificant than concession to the spirit of

his time.

It seems to me his treasured desires and aspirations were

embodied in his characters of children#s books.

I have read many cheerful books but I have never read

books more funny than Twain#s ones.

Sergey Doroeyev, Ukraine, Sevastopol,!ymnasia #7

Mar $wain and Damos )ssians

)ssian t+ar, -leBander n, agreed to accept a greeting letter from -merican representatives&

Mar $wain wrote the letter himself&

'n his greeting letter to the )ssian t+ar the great hmorist wrote they were Eite sre that

-mericans wold "e always gratefl to )ssia and )ssian t+ar&

Yo can read a"ot $wain%s staying in Sevastopol in his "oo :'nnocents -"road:&$wain admited that -leBander '' was a ind sympathetic person& His eyes cold "e hardly

compared with Napoleon ones as $wain%s eyes were not sly&-merican visitors were lcy enogh and en(oyed the meeting with Prince 0olgory, Aeneral

$otle"en, the hero of the defence of Sevastopol, Arand 0e Mihail&



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)e are happy to report that paticipatin! in "Mark Twain from

the Mississippi to the $nipro" project is a !reat pleasure to

us. The *!raders of +ymnasia,- Sevastopol kraine

supported enthusiastically the idea of joinin! this project as"The /rince and the /auper" by Mark Twain was the first

book they have read in &n!lish. Besidesthey#ve read a lot of

Twain#s books in 'ussian and know his characters 0uite well.

)e were rather ea!er to participate in the project because of

another very important reason1 Mark Twain visited

Sevastopol in 2*3- as a newspaper correspondent. 4e described

this event in his book "Innocents Abroad". nfortunately we

couldn#t find the book in the ori!inal in Sevastopol but we

enjoyed readin! it in 'ussian translation.

)e or!ani5ed a coordinatin! !roup of Andry Tarasenko

Serhiy Mishchenko (asty 6apusa Iryna 6ostenko IrynaAntipina 7ictor Shkarlat. They worked in the library

findin! some materials in the city newspapers translated

newspaper ar ticles into &n!lish and sent them to the project.

To know about the writer#s stayin! in our re!ion better we

decided to see some places in the nei!hborhood which Mark

Twain visited in 2*3-. So we made an e8cursion to the

Malakhov Mount and took some pictures there.

9ur &n!lish teachers 7alentina Moskovaya Alla Shishova

Maria 6utsova (ataly +uin!ina and I or!ani5ed a festival in

honor of Twain#s 23:th anniversary. It was held in ourAssembly 4all for the students of the 3th -th and *th forms.

Students from the coordinatin! !roup told about the most

important events in the life of the !reat humorist and his

stayin! in Sevastopol others played some scenes from his

child ren#s books. There was a lot of humour and jokes. &ach

!rade made a wall newspaper about the author of Tom Sawyer.

It was very difficult for the jury to choose the best

one. ;overs of poetry competed reci tin! &n!lish and American

poems the competition was devoted to Mark Twain#s birthday.

9ur librarian 7era <hernomasova prepared a 0ui5 on his life

works and literary characters. &very winner !ot a diploma. &ach student of the *th !rades wrote a short essay "Mark Twain

in My ;ife." The best works were included to the project and

to +ymnasia student# &n!lish almanac "&njoy &n!lish". In the

almanac we also published information about Twain#s stayin! in

<rimea.

Students prepared a !reat number of illustrations to their

favorite books by Mark Twain and we or!ani5ed their e8hibition.

9l!a Shevchenko to!ether with her teacher 7alentina Moskovaya

!ot a diploma for her research work "Idioms in M.Twain#s

novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". )e are sure that the !oal of the project is achieved1 all

participants !ot to know a lot of new facts about their favorite



writer made new friends improved their lan!ua!e skills and

understood that telecommunication#s the best means of

communication.

9ur warm re!ards to all participants and the authors of the

project

;arysa Stepanenko

a teacher of +ymnasia,- Sevastopol

kr aine&

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