Language Arts 2-3-14 and 2-4-14

Language Arts 2-3-14

Today we continued to re-examine our benchmark.  Princeton rewrote their introduction and handed it in.
Yale and Harvard discussed their introduction, rewrote it.

We corrected Simple Solutions #47.

Introduction of the Mark Twain unit.
Copied down our enduring understandings and essential questions for the unit
We took notes on Twain's life and examined some of his witty remarks.

Homework:
Define the vocabulary words for the story "Roughing It."
Simple Solutions #48.


Language Arts 2-4-14

Journal entry # 6    "Stories I could write" (we brainstormed topics that each of us could write a story about because we personally experienced it)

Corrected Simple Solutions #48.

Reviewed vocabulary for "Roughing it."
Read further about the author; read the introduction and background for our story.  Focus on "exaggeration."
Listened and discussed the story by Mark Twain.

Homework:
Page 802 questions 1, 3, 4, 5 in complete answers
Page 803 Vocab #1-10 write out.  Grammar 1-5 write out.

Read your realistic fiction novel.