"What Are You Figuring Now?" Continued

Thursday April 29th, 2010:

Attendance

Vocabulary For Chapters One and Two:

1. Almanac - an annual publication containing a calendar for the coming year, the times of such events and phenomena as anniversaries, sunrises and sunsets, phases of the moon, tides, etc., and other statistical information and related topics.

2. Tobacco - any of several plants belonging to the genus Nicotiana, used for chewing and smoking.

3. Caterpillars - the wormlike larva of a butterfly or a moth.

4. Different - not alike in character or quality; differing; dissimilar: The two are different.

5. Acre - a common variable unit of land measure.

6. Figure - an amount or value expressed in numbers.

7. Valley - an extensive, more or less flat, and relatively low region drained by a great river system.

8. Clothes - garments for the body; articles of dress; wearing apparel.

9. Thought - the product of mental activity; that which one thinks: a body of thought.

10. Enough - adequate for the want or need; sufficient for the purpose or to satisfy desire: enough water; noise enough to wake the dead.

FINISH CHAPTER TWO QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU START CHAPTER THREE!

Read Chapter Three:

Questions:
1. What did Benjamin do to keep his mind busy? (1 Mark)


2. How old was Benjamin in 1751? (1 Mark)


3. What made Benjamin’s heart jump like a rabbit? (1 Mark)


4. What did Benjamin do with the watch when he got home? (2 Marks)


5. How many years after Benjamin borrowed the gold watch did it take for him to make all the pieces and put them back together again? (1 Mark)


That is all for today!