It’s December 18. 
Today is “National Bake Cookies Day.”  For whom would you like to bake some cookies?

Trivial Fact of the Day:  If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow 30 feet long in his lifetime.

Interesting Quote of the Day:  “Words are the voice of the heart.”  --Tuscarora Indian saying
Vocabulary Word of the Day:  augment (verb) – this action word means to add to or to expand on, as in knowledge or wisdom.  Do book smarts or life experiences have a better chance of augmenting knowledge?

Terrific Thursday!!

Today, we are going to start with a 10 question quiz about simple, compound, and complex sentences. We are going to be taking a summative over the sentence types on Thursday when we get back. Tall Tales. Be sure to identify the Tall tale characters and what natural phenomenon.