“SAWs, 4/16.”
specify (verb): to clearly define
establish (verb): to cause to be recognized and accepted
cohesive (adjective): unified
constrain (verb): to hold back or limit
xenophobia (noun): a fear of foreign people
         

Go over Test #29.

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

What?

Tom Sawyer!

1. What would you do for fun in 1835?
2. What chore/work did you always want to do as a kid, but now that you have to do it, you don’t want to any more?
3. Slang: truck, lick, dander up, powerful warm, lam, suck eggs

Read the Author’s Preface.
What two reasons does Mark Twain give for writing this book?

Chapter 1.

What does he really mean?

“old age sticks” by ee cummings.

YEE #7.

Message to 6th Grade.