One hundred years after his death we are still learning so much about Mark Twain and his wholesome brand of comedy. Today most students began or continued working on the three worksheets following the February 8 Scholastic Scope article entitled, The Year of Twain. The first worksheet focused on something we did a lot last year in sixth grade, reviewing a nonfiction article. We have to review the article and find the three main ideas and list supporting details for each. The second worksheet has to do with interpreting text by reviewing some of Twain’s most famous quotes, what they mean and if it is humorous, why? The final worksheet is a Mark Twain treasure hunt, which reminds many of us of our research strategies rotation class.

We reviewed the lesson plans for this week and talked again about using the information from the lesson plans, the blog, and the webquest to know what needed to be done when. Critical Thinking Skills that we will need the rest of our lives, was about what Mrs. Scales said about being able to pull information together and think about what it was telling us. She sure expects a lot from a seventh grader. She just knows we can do it.

Chunk 2 of the Literary Circle books needed to be posted on the forums by the end of school today.

Our root word today was corp, which means body. It is from Latin and our example words included: corpse, corporation, and corpuscle.

Oh, I almost forgot, we had a fire drill today and got to go outside. It was very nice, so sunny and bright.