Reading during the Break

Please keep reading during the break!

Some books with movies that you might enjoy include:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid -  easy, funny
Twilight- vampires in love in Washington State
 Harry Potter  and the Sorcerer's stone (1st book) - magic in England
Cold Mountain - harder, but interesting story about life during the American Civil War
Touching the Void - survival of an injured mountain climber in the Andes Mountains
Into the Wild - an American adventure with a tragic (very sad) end, but the scenery in the movie is amazing.
Hunt For Red October - Submarine spy drama action
Rocket Boys - A true story about future NASA engineers growing up in the 1950s

Re-read The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Often when you re-read you can focus more on details, imagery  (use of words to make pictures for the reader), complex sentence structure and remembering vocabulary. American kids often re-read their favorite books many times. My son has read  Hunt for Red October at least 5 times!

Answers for Units 7 and 8
Sorry, I forgot my book at school! I will get it on Friday and then post the answers.

Also, someone turned in answers for The Five People You Meet in Heaven  pages 179-193 with no name. Check on engrade.com and email me if it was you!

Thursday Homework

Review Unit 6, Henry Ford, Detroit, Robots and Crash Test Dummies, for the quiz tomorrow.
Finish reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Monday.

Wednesday Homework

Read pages 91-92  Link to scans.Page 90 is mis-named it's really 91)
Answer the questions on page 93
Review  vocabulary on pages 94-95
Click here to check out robots wars.
Here are Lego robots

Tuesday Homework

Read - Detroit: The Motor City pages 87-88
Answer the questions on page 89  Click here for scans.

Click here to check out the Motown sound on YouTube

Monday Homework

Vocabulary page 82 (be sure to read the word in the the article if you don't already know the meaning)
Read pages 83-84 
Answer the questions on page 85
 Here is a link to the scanned pages  You can also access the files for
 The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Weekend Homework

Read: The Five People You Meet in Heaven pages 146-178 (The fourth person and lesson)
Answer the questions.

Thursday Homework

Review for the Unit 5 Hawaii quiz
Write one page of notes to use on the quiz.
Do the vocabulary exercise on page 79