Homework and Notes from 1/9/15

Homework:

Have a great weekend :)

Notes:

In English we continued reading excerpts to discover different variations of Author's Purpose. We read the first 2 chapters of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

We answered the questions: 

1)  Why would an author use a pseudo name?

2) Does the style of writing differ from Alice in Wonderland?



In Current Events we the article entitled Can Songbirds Hear Storms Long Before They Arrive? from Dogo News. In April 2014, a series of devastating tornadoes wreaked havoc on the southern United States. The fierce system of multiple tornadoes that ripped through the region ravaged scores of local communities, claimed the lives of more than 35 people, and caused over a billion dollars in damages across 17 states. Also affected of course were the animals that lived in the region. The one species that managed to escape unscathed were the golden-winged warblers that left their breeding grounds in Tennessee two days before the tornadoes struck and flew off to Florida. The timely exodus by the birds has come to light thanks to a team of researchers led by Tennessee-based ornithologist Henry Streby, who in 2013, successfully managed to do what many scientists had considered impossible - attach a half-gram tracking device on twenty of the tiny songbirds that weigh less than three pennies. The team's motive was simply to track the migration pattern of the birds that spend winters in South and Central America and return to breed in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, during spring. (DogoNews)