The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain

Robert Fulton • Robert Fulton is popularly, if inaccurately, considered the inventor of the

steamship. Born in Pennsylvania, he began his career as an artist, painting mostly portraits (Benjamin Franklin sat for him in Philadelphia). In 1786 he travelled to England, where he put his efforts to engineering, specializing in canal navigation and shipbuilding. In the late 1790s he worked on designing and building a submarine, first in France and then, more successfully, in England. Something of a celebrity when he returned to the United States in 1806, Fulton set to building a ship powered by an English-built steam engine. In August of 1807 his Clermont made the trip from New York to Albany, upriver on the Hudson, in 32 hours. Although John Fitch had built a working steamboat in 1790, Fulton was the first to establish a commercially successful line of ships, which led to a transportation revolution. After Clermont he built more than a dozen other steamships, a torpedo boat and, under the direction of the U.S. Congress, a steam-powered frigate.

Robert Fulton cont.

• Born: 14 November 1765 • Died: 24 February 1815 (age 49) • Birthplace: Little Britain (now Fulton),

Pennsylvania • Best known as:The man who made

steamships successful

Grammar

• Unit 1 use or the Nominative Case Pronouns in Compound Sentences

What Are They?

• Also Called Pronouns: I, He, She, We, And they• Always used as the subject of a verb• Always remember I and Me are always placed

last in subject constructions. John and I went to the park. My friend and I are going swimming. She made him and me some sandwiches.

Awkward!!!!

• Although the first person plural we may be used in compound constructions, it is awkward and is best not used.

John and we were at the party

How would you rephrase this?

• John was at the party with us.• John was with us at the party.

When the second and third person pronouns are used with a noun, the pronoun is always placed

before the noun.

• She and Mary are here.• You and Bob may sit over there.• He and my brother were great friends.

Please repeat these sentences after me

1. Bill and I went swimming.2. Sue and I are the winners.3. Bob, Sally, George, and I are going to the circus.4. Tom and I painted our bicycles.5. Alex and I worked on our homework6. My cousins and I went shopping.7. Bill’s uncle and I worked on the boat.8. Mary’s aunt and I planted the garden.9. The boys and I went to the game.

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Please read homework this week

Time for writing

Homework

• Literature- Read chapters 1-4 answer questions

• Grammar – Read exercises unit 1• Writing – Key work outline for Life Preservers

and make sure you have all the other key word outlines done. We will give oral reports on these.