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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Language Arts 12-3-13

Today we created a journal entry defining and giving examples for 10 of our figurative language vocabulary.  This was entry # 2.

We watched the video "Four Minutes of the Civil War,"  read a non-fiction piece about Wilmer McLean, and examined our character analysis of Lincoln. (this was handed in today).

We corrected Simple Solutions #37.

We took down flash cards on Literary elements of mood and tone & inferencing.

HOMEWORK:
Simple solution #38
Read literature book pages 784-787 do a "Think and Note"  on this Civil War Journal
Book report due tomorrow
Gettysburg address memorization (students have been giving their speeches each day)  last day is Thursday.

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