June 12 - Homework

ELA: Make sure you are reading for your independent reading goal

You need at least 6 quotes about Zero

Homework - June 4

Language Arts: First paragraph of letter based on the raft activity you did in the Springboard book

Finish reading Holes by Friday

Reading:
Work on Independent Reading Goal - You only have 2 weeks to meet your goal

Social Studies: Continue to study for test - The extended response is: Suppose that you live in Ancient China. You want to persuade your family to move to a different region.  Fill in the form below to prepare your arguments.

Link to Sample Friendly letter

http://www.letterwritingguide.com/samplefriendlyletter.htmhttp://www.letterwritingguide.com/samplefriendlyletter.htm

Homework - May 28

ELA: Read up through chapters 37 - using two coding symbols for each chapter -

Finish your compare/contrast essay over the characters - make sure you have an introductory paragraph where you Include the name of the genres, (Holes & poem) restate the question, provide background or gist, include evidence from the genres, (The author states, An example, In the poem.....)  You need to have paragraphs and a concluding paragraph.

Keep reading to meet your independent reading goal.

Social Studies: If you are going to be out Thursday and Friday you need to use stickies to write down 3 to 5 important details about each region in China.

How Does Electricity Move?

Why does your hair stand up on end?

The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/static.html

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/static_electricity.html

http://www.physics4kids.com/files/elec_charge.html

Articles about Static Electricity
http://amasci.com/static/electrostatic3.html

Bringing down the Bolt
http://mpbn.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sf10.sci.psci.elecmag.downbolt/bringing-down-the-bolt/

Lesson from MPBN
http://mpbn.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sf10.sci.ps.psci.elecmag.lpdownbolt/lets-make-some-static/

When Lightening Stikes
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/lightning-interactive.html

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

Let's read the Poem, Annabel Lee, and compare it to the characters, Kate Barlow and Sam in Holes.  How do the circumstances of the events affect all the characters? How are the characters alike?

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174151

Wednesday May 21 Homework

ELA: Continue to work on reading goal
Read up through chapter 32 in Holes

Social Studies: Finish second page of packet including detail about each region in China.  You need to include 3 to 4 important details about each region.

Tuesday May 20

ELA: Finish reading up through chapter 28 - Fill in graphic organizer on page 244 over chapters 24 - 28

Social Studies: Fill in graphic organizer over sections 19.6

May 19

ELA: Finish inference wheel over Zero - (Characterization - What a character says, does or what other characters say about that character or how other characters treat that character)

Read for 1/2 hour

Social Studies: Finish map over China and answer questions that go along with the map
Front page of packet