Weekend
- Read your non-fiction book. Oral reports being the week after next.
- Math test on statistics next week.
Thursday Evening
- Math: pg 447: 1-11 all; 13, 15, 17
- Math Grizzlies: take-home test sheet
- Study for vocab test tomorrow
- English: Answer these questions on a separate page to turn in tomorrow. The story is on page 589 of the lit book.
- Why is the Salton Sea worth saving?
- Make a T-Chart of the positives and negatives of the Salton Sea (compare and contrast)
- What does the author accomplish by showing the positives and negatives of the Salton Sea?
- What are the similarities between the environmental problems of the wild turkeys and the Salton Sea?
- Why would it be more difficult to save the wildlife at the Salton Sea than the wild turkeys?
- Who wrote the article, who did he work for, and where did the article first appear?
Wednesday Evening
- Math: Take-home test
- Math: finish pie chart of ice cream flavors (hmm, sounds like dessert to me)
- English: read 1/2 hour your non-fiction book
Tuesday Evening
Math pg 441: 5-35 odds
Answer these questions from the story Turkeys (pg 580) in the Lit book:
- What does an ornithologist study?
- What does the word “demise” mean?
- How can you tell the difference between a wild turkey and a domestic (barnyard) turkey
- What threatens the wild turkeys?
- What event brought the author and the turkeys together?
- What disease does the author have, and why is it important to the story?
Monday Evening
- Math: pg436ff: 9-18 all; 19-31 odds
- Read 1/2 hour your non-fiction book or biography
- Study vocabulary list for Friday test