frog+sentance+class+activity

Today in class we did the translating of the sentences into modern day language. For the most part I thought that it was ok because it made me realize how much different the language in that story really was compared to today's every day language. The language that was used in the story, I think, was harder to understand because we aren't used to the different way of saying the things that were said. When we took the time to translate the sentences in class that really helped me understand what the sentence was really saying. On a regular basis I would never have taken the time to translate the sentences so I wouldn't have gotten the full meaning out of the story. Instead I would have just kept on reading and taken the meaning that I would have gotten from first glance. After reading this story I thought that it was ok. I didn't really get the whole meaning out of the story because all the story was about was a man that pretty much loved to bet on things. Overall, I guess it was an ok story. 1205273327

I think that today's activity was fairly useful, because I too probably wouldn't have come up with theh same translations and therefore would have mixed up the story a little bit. The basic idea for the sentence from the story was formatted very oddly, the biggest example was //Smiley was montrous proud of his frog, and well he might be//.... At first glance I applied the segment //well he might be// to the frog, but when I though about it for a minute I realized that it went with Smiley and was basically saying how he deserves to be or has the right to be proud of his frog. Little things like that made a difference, but if I didn't catch that I don't think it would have really effected the story. Pretty much, I think that this activity really made us think about proper english because it all made sense but was so backwards and so it was almost like a puzzle that we had to fit together. 1205275206

I thought that today's activity was unique. It would have been hard to sort out the sentence if you had no idea what had happened around that sentence in the story. The story gave the sentence some background information, so reading and understanding what went on in the story helped me a lot before hand. I think that this activity was useful because we are going to need to read certain works with language that we are not familiar with. If we are able to translate the wrods and rearrange them so they make sense to us, we will be able to read anything in literature. I, like kdi, would not have thought to rearrange the sentence, but for future refrences, i think that this method can be very helpful.1205277166ape2

Today in class Brother Tom gave us a sentence from the story we read and we had to translate it into today's way of saying it. This exercise was very helpful in getting the ful meaning of what the narrator was saying. One of the sentences we used was, "Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellers that had traveled and been everywheres all said he laid over any frog that ever they see." As you can tell, this sentence does not make much sense because we do not talk like that in this century. I translated this sentence so it said, "Smiley was very proud of his frog, and he should have been because people that traveled everywhere had all said this frog was the best they had ever seen." If I would have taken the time to use this activity to change all the sentences I did not understand, I would have been able to get the full meaning of the story. 1205277671KCa

I liked what we did in class today when we re-wrote some of the sentences/phrases from the story, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," into our own words. I wish we could do that a lot more because some of the topics that we have read in class don't make sense to me especially the poetry. I liked this because we told Br. Tom what our answers were and he told us whether they were close to the answer, right on the answer, or completely lost. I also liked that Brother Tom re-read the story to us because I understood it a lot better after hearing it a second time.

1205280286

I agree with BSc. I enjoyed going over the sentences today. It helped to look more into the story and more importantly made me think. There were a ton of different ways that the sentences could have been said but to get them just perfect to fit what the author was trying to say was a little tougher. It made me think about what the point to the sentence was and how we would explain it to someone today. Plus, overall I thought that the story was fun. It was interesting to read with the pretty dry humor it was just different than what I'm used to and sometimes all people need is a change.1205464903

I also really enjoyed it. It was good to have a change and do something new. Plus, it felt good to actually think about what I was reading and go over it with the class. I also enjoyed the voice that Br.Tom read the story with. It definitely added something and kind of kept my attention. Mark Twains' writing seems a little more interesting to me than any of the other authors so far though so that's probably why.1205464903