Do Now: Brainstorm and Write your Ideas in your Notebook Think of things in your life that you use a code for (it can be a secret code, but it doesn’t have to be)

Every three letters of our “Secret Pseudo-Protein Code” codes for a letter or punctuation mark. Use the code to figure out each message.   The rules are: 1. All messages must begin with START (if it doesn’t, the message can’t begin) 2. There are no spaces between three letter combinations, just count every three letters. 3. A STOP (punctuation mark) means the message ends (don’t keep going!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Original message: A U G G U G U U C A C U A C U G C A U A A