Unit 1: Our People

1. Childhood

What were you like when you were a child?

Think of at least two occasions during this time when you were particularly successful at something. 

2. Who said What?

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

Sam Levenson (1911 – 1980) American humorist, writer, teacher, television host, and journalist. 

William Boyd Watterson II (1958) American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. 

Socrates (470 – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. 

Anatole Paul Broyard (1920 – 1990) American writer, literary critic and editor for The New York Times.