I hope you all enjoyed the assembly yesterday and learned something from it. On Monday, we started our new standard, which involves assumptions. You spent time reading the journals of Lewis and Clark and locating assumptions and statements about nature in the text. Today we are going to continue locating assumptions but we are going to take this one step further.

Today we are going to be taking a look at the diary of a teenage girl named Sarah Raymond. She crossed the plains with her family in a wagon train headed for Montana about 60 years after Lewis and Clark.

1. As you read keep looking for ASSUMPTIONS and evidence of NATURE.

2. When you are done highlighting paste the URL in your English Journal.

3. Then copy one of your assumptions into your EJ. You will have to do this by copying it from the original text not from awesome highlighter.

4. EXPLAIN why you think the part you copied is an assumption.

Links:

Sarah Raymond’s Diary (First three paragraphs are an introduction)

Awesome Highlighter