Copy the following from your Reading Log for SJ4: In this lesson, you wrote your own claim from the Commencement Address at Stanford STORY 2 and you supported it with evidence from the text. In a well- composed paragraph, write this claim, the evidence from the text and explain how this evidence supports the claim.

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?