FIELD TRIP!!!
EXTRA CREDIT CHANCE
- Carefully read and study page 16 in the SCOPE magazine (November 2017).
- Choose your favorite one and neatly copy the paragraph on printer paper. Also draw and color a neat picture to match.
- Then you must also write another paragraph to explain why this one is your favorite.
YOU MUST READ AND STUDY THE WHOLE PAGE IN THE MAGAZINE BEFORE YOU START THE WRITING!
Last day to submit: Friday, March 23, 2018
M-STEP STUDY DAY
“Preserving the Future”
M-STEP STUDY DAY
“Sonnet for Morning”
HW:
Edison questions 2, 3, and 4.
HINT: Before you start this HW, please take some quiet time to slowly re-read the text (page 35).
For #2 and #3, you must use QAR. That means you MUST underline proof in the text. Please use color to underline (or highlight).
#4 is a CER question.
Here is some help #4:
(Do NOT copy my exact words!)
CLAIM: A factory is a place where ______________, and Edison’s laboratory became known as an “invention factory”.
EVIDENCE 1: (from paragraphs 1 and 2)
- “received patent for electric vote recorder”
- “improvements to the telegraph”
- “manufacture stock printer”
REASONING: Before he moved to New Jersey, Edison was already like a factory because _________________ .
EVIDENCE 2: (from paragraph 3)
- “they worked on several different inventions at any given time there”
REASONING: In New Jersey, Edison’s lab was even more like a factory because _____________________.
DON’T FORGET TO RESTATE YOUR CLAIM AT THE END OF YOUR PARAGRAPH!
HW:
- BRING $30 AND YOUR PERMISSION SLIP TO YOUR MATH TEACHER TOMORROW!
- Wear as much green as possible and bring at least $1 to help those with muscular dystrophy.
HW:
“Swiss Family Robinson”
Make sure you take the sheet in class!
Read and study each excerpt.
Circle the correct answers.
Choose three of the vocabulary words and write your own interesting sentences on the back (one sentence for each word).
QUIZ TOMORROW!
The quiz is NOT only about the vocabulary words. The quiz is to see if you actually READ the excerpts.
HW: [on loose leaf]
Thomas Edison did NOT invent the light bulb!
Who did?
Don’t just write the person’s name. Write a few interesting facts in your answer.
https://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/inventors/latimer.htm
BW:
- SCOPE magazine – “Teeth”.
- Carefully read and STUDY pages 2 and 3, especially the HINT.
- Choose ONE of the yellow boxes to copy on loose leaf.
- Don’t forget to read the directions on page 2.
CW:
- Read page 36 (click the link).
- On loose leaf, neatly copy the question mark box. Then show the teacher.
- On the back of the loose leaf, neatly copy #1 then answer it.