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April 22, 2024 – Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English
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Monday, 4/22 (32): Homework, WoD, Tom, Essay

Copy homework into planner:

  • Essays are due to be shared FRIDAY.
    Final Format: Intro, 3 Reason Paragraphs with 2 Pieces of Evidence each, Opposing viewpoint/counterclaim/evidence paragraph(s), Conclusion, Works Cited
  • Vocab due Tuesday, Thursday
    • due Tuesday – Definitions in notebook.
    • due Thursday – Copy and Finish the SMYK’s.

“Husker Du, 4/22.”
Period 1: Test #12: 1-5
Period 3: Test #14: 1-6
Period 4: Test #20: 1-6
Period 5: Test #16: 1-6
Period 6: Test #13: 1-6


“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? Talk it over. (Hint: Mark Twain was almost always being ironic or sarcastic.)


Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Tom Sawyer!

  1. What would you have done 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.

In notebook:”Author’s Preface.” What two reasons does Mark Twain give for writing this book?

 

Chapter 1! Tom Fights, Plays, and Hides.


Essays are due to be shared by Friday:
p305: Address an opposing claim. “Counter and Crush.” This paragraph should be in the 200 word range.

CONCLUSION:

Read the paragraphs on p280 and 290. Those are models of conclusions from both sides. Go.

At the end of your document, list your sources in this format.

Works Cited.

Lundman, Susan. “How to Make Vegetarian Chili.” eHow,
www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.

“Athlete’s Foot – Topic Overview.” WebMD, 25 Sept. 2014,
www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/tc/athletes-foot-topic-overview.

 

Final Format: Intro, 3 Reason Paragraphs with 2 Pieces of Evidence each, Opposing viewpoint/counterclaim/evidence paragraph(s), Conclusion, Works Cited