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Silent work

Silent work. To whom much is given, much is expected. 1. Alaska , the largest state with the fewest people, has one-third of it’s land inside the Arctic Circle.

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Silent work

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  1. Silent work To whom much is given, much is expected.

  2. 1. Alaska, the largest state with the fewest people, has one-third of it’s land inside the Arctic Circle. 2. Humorist, Mark Twain (1835-1910) wore white linen suits in summer and in winter because they made him feel “clean in a dirty world.”

  3. 3. Harriet Tubman, the former slave who became famous for her courage as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, once made this statement “On my Underground Railroad, I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.”

  4. 4. Slow, sustained stretching helps to lengthen tightly cramped muscles, increases flexibility, and prevents muscle strains tiny tears in muscle fibers.

  5. 5. The largest gold nugget ever found weighed about 200 pounds, was discovered in 1969 near Ballarat, Australia, and was nicknamed “Welcome Stranger”.

  6. 6. According to a well publicized government report, more than half of America’s new jobs will be in the following industries: health services, business services, and retail trade.

  7. 7. German leader Adolph Hitler, born in Braunau, Austria, in 1889, took his own life at 3:30 p.m. on May 1, 1945 in Berlin, Germany.

  8. 8. I learned this when I visited my uncles farm: pigs can get sunburned just like humans. This explains why pigs hang out in cool, soft mud whenever possible.

  9. 9. Chewing tobacco, for example, causes mouth and throat cancers as well as painful progressive tooth and gum problems.

  10. 10. Throughout the Middle Ages, magicians and alchemists, early chemists tried to make gold out of base metals.

  11. 11. The reason is that gold is an element: one of the simplest materials on earth.

  12. its • humorist • (no comma) • statement: • (add colon) • (tiny tears in muscle fibers). • (add parentheses) • stranger.” • well-publicized • (add hyphen) • 1945, • (add comma) • uncle’s • (add apostrophe) • painful, progressive • (add comma) • chemists, • (add comma) • element, one • (change colon to comma)

  13. The Monkey’s Paw (46-53) • Read story and take notes using reading strategies. • Copy five quotes that tell you what genre this story belongs in. • Answer questions in sections: • Check Comprehension • Critical Thinking • Due next class.

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