Everyone has their new book! That is a first for this year! Keep it up! Tell your mom to order the next book this weekend, please!
We talked about the title, author and pertinent information about the book: A Connecticut Yankee. We discovered that the titles of the chapters are numbered that way due to the Roman influence in the book! I collected all the summaries. I haven't looked at them formally but some of you wrote way too much! Remember in a summary only the barest details are required!
We talked about "Mark Twain," who he was and why he wrote books the way he did.
Remember that on Friday we are going to the Veteran's Day parade! We will help Mrs. Machtley get her classes to and from the parade. However, I am going to take up the work assigned today before we go to the parade, so you need to have the vocabulary completed, please. Work on it this weekend because you don't want to miss out on anything!
We will read 11 chapters at a time. The chapters are not that long. Check them out! Remember, the book has many humorous parts in it. Try and find them as you read.
Your homework is:
Wednesday/Thursday 8,9 November 2011
1. Read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" chapters 1-11.
2. Vocabulary Work: Write the definition for each word on notebook paper. You copied the words today in class. They began with palimpset!
ORDER THE NEXT BOOK TODAY: THE MIDDLE AGES by Jane Shuter . Due: November 18.
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