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

Wednesday Homework

1. Do the vocabulary exercise on page 74
2. Read page 75-76
3. Write a sentence that explains the idea for each topic in bold
4. Try the questions on page 77

Tuesday Homework

Read pages 71-72, do exercises on page 73.
If you were absent you will need to research about an island: Lanai, Nihau, or Molokai and make a poster.

Monday Homework

Go back and re-read any parts of pages 98-145 The Third Person and The Third Lesson that you felt confused about.

Continue reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven pages 146-178 for Monday March 4th.

Weekend Homework

Read The Five People You Meet in Heaven pages 98-145 and answer the questions I gave you in class.

Thursday Homework

Read pages 67-68 in Panorama. Try to underline the main idea for each paragraph.
Answer the questions on page 69.

Start reading pages 98-144 in The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
The reading questions are due Monday 25 February.

Wednesday Homework

1. Review Reading tests
2. Answer the film questions on the photocopy I gave in class today. Click here if you don't have it.
3. Choose new five words from The Five People You Meet in Heaven and write sentences that show the meaning.

Weekend Homework

Read: The Five People You Meet in Heaven  up to page 97. Click here for the word list and questions.

Answer the questions on paper and bring them to class Wednesday Feb 20th. Monday is a holiday and on Tuesday, you will have a substitute teacher, who will show you the first part of the movie.

Reading Skills Test Friday

Friday, there will be a skills test. This is a test of your general reading ability. You can not do anything special to prepare for this. It will ask about main ideas, vocabulary, details, and inferences.

Keep reading :The Five People You Meet in Heaven  Try to be to page 95 by  Tuesday February 19th.
Remember Monday is a holiday!

Reading Quiz on Thursday!!! Skills Test on Friday!

Homework:
Page 63-64.  From the "Wrap It Up"questions on page 64, choose one to answer on paper.

Unit 4 American Culture readings and vocabulary quiz this Thursday!
As usual you can use one page of notes for the reading part.

Here are the quiz words that are worth 20% of the points. Use the crossword puzzle to review.

Page 50
contemporary
confident
symbol

Page 54
construction
extend
isolated

Page 58
generation
technique
concept
evolve
pattern

Friday, we will have a general test of your reading ability. This is a test that you can not study for, but you can show your skills in finding main ideas, understanding new vocabulary, finding details, and making inferences.  If you want some extra reading  and listening practice try this link

Tuesday Homework

Read about American Folk Art pages 59-61. Take notes to use on the test Friday.

Monday Homework

Hi, I hope you had a good lesson with Anna.

The homework is to finish reading about the American South and answer the questions pages 55-57.
Choose five vocabulary words from page 54 and write sentences that show the meaning.

Weekend homework

Read The Five People You Meet in Heaven  pages 55-79. Use the vocabulary list to help you. Click here to get the list.

The reading questions are:

Why do you think Eddie joins the army?  What are the good and bad sides of being a soldier?
Who is the second person Eddie meets in heaven? Why is Eddie surprised?
What happens to Eddie and the other soldiers?
What skill does Eddie have that helps them escape?
What does Eddie see in the burning hut (little house) ?

Wednesday Homework

Read page 51-52 and write the main idea for each paragraph. Answer the questions on page 53.

Reading Questions for The Five People You Meet in Heaven pages 45-55 due.

Tuesday homework

Start reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven pages 45-55. The questions are due Thursday. If you were absent, click here for the vocabulary and questions.

Monday Homework

Main Ideas photocopy 1 , 2 , 3
Continue reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven up to page 55 and answer questions by Thursday.

Weeekend homework

Read The Five People You Meet in Heaven up to page 44. Answer the questions on the photocopy I gave you in class. If you lost it, click here for questions  and click here for vocabulary.

Quizzes on Friday

On Friday, we will have a quiz on Unit 3  - Photography, all three chapters, pages 34-48. It will include questions on the readings and the vocabulary.

You are allowed one page of hand written notes. Complete pages 45-47 to help you prepare. Check the answers with a classmate before class!

Also please continue to read The Five People You Meet in Heaven  up to page 44. The questions are due Monday.


Unit 3 Photography Vocabulary

1.       Capture                succeed in representing something in pictures or words

2.       Portray                to show something in a particular way

3.       Documentary    relating to a movie or photographs that give facts about a subject

4.       Deplete               reduce, use up the amount of something

5.       Desperate           willing to do anything to change a terrible situation

6.       Prosper                be successful, especially financially

7.       Drought               a long period without rain

8.       Evidence              something real that helps prove something

9.       Prohibit                say something is not allowed

10.   Tragedy                 an event that causes great sadness

Wednesday homework

Read pages 39-40 carefully and take notes, just a little for each paragraph. Answer the questions on page 41.

Due Monday: Keep reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven up to page 44. Use the vocabulary list to help you read faster. Answer the questions on the back of the vocabulary list.

Survey and Homework

Please click on the link to take the survey if you haven't already taken the one I sent you by email.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CP2RXHZ

Homework: Reading page 37. Choose five words from page 34 and write sentences that show the meaning. 
Keep reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven to page 44 for Monday.

Monday Homework

Read pages 34-36. Use the clues below to help you guess the vocabulary on page 34.

1.       In some jobs such as carpentry and plumbing, young workers begin as apprentices and learn the skill from an experienced, older master tradesman.

2.       The photo captured the beautiful colors of the sunset.

3.       In class, we watched a documentary film about the history of architecture.

4.       Anger and hate are dangerous emotions to act upon.

5.       We went the art gallery to see a Picasso exhibit.
 

1.       Migrants traveled from Oklahoma to California in the 1930’s to find work

2.       Usually famous leaders like kings and presidents have their portraits painted.

3.       The novel that we are reading portrays the life and death of Eddie, an old maintenance worker.

4.       I wanted to see the artist at work, so I went to her studio.

5.       Dancers, poor people, and prostitutes are often the subjects of Picasso’s paintings.

Weekend Homework

Read pages 23-31 of The Five People You Meet in Heaven Questions due Monday! Also be ready for a short reading check of pages 23-31.

Quizzes on Friday

Start reading pages 23-31 in The Five People You Meet in Heaven Questions due Monday!

Homework pages 30-32.
Choose one question from page 32 to write a short (3-4) sentence response on paper.

Here are the vocabulary words for Friday's quiz.

1. astronomy
2. contribution
3. excel
4. altitude
5. facility
6. transmission
7. atmosphere
8. blurry
9. maintenance
10. orbit

Quiz of the three astronomy readings in our book plus the Galileo reading. You can use one page of hand written notes if you want.

Wednesday Homework

Read: "A Telescope in Space" Pages 27-28.
Take notes that to use on the reading check quiz.
Answer the questions on page 29

Go to the Hubble Website and check out some of the images.

Continue reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven  to page 31.

Tuesday Homework

1. Continue reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Note difficult vocabulary and main characters and events.

2. Do the vocabulary exercise on page 22

3. Read page 23-24,  "Mount Wilson: A Mountain with a View" List five important facts that your read about to prepare for the reading check tomorrow. Answer the questions on page 25.

Weekend Homework

• Read The Five People You Meet in Heaven pages 1-22. If you don't have the novel yet, you can read it online Click here for the e-reader version, but please note that the page numbers are different. On the online version, read up to page 14, the end of the chapter titled "The Journey". 
• Answer the questions on the photocopy you were given in class.
• Do an internet search and find an article about Martin Luther King Jr. To find an easier article type the words "ESL student" or "for kids" If you find only books or advertisements, add the word "biography" to your search. 
• Take notes on the article and include 5 basic facts about Martin Luther King Jr's life: date of birth and death, career, famous protests or boycotts, accomplishments (great things he did) and how he died.
• Fill in the prefix and root worksheet with words you know. If you don't know a word, ask a friend or skip to the next word. Don't spend hours looking up words in a dictionary!

Thursday Homework

Read: photocopy about Galileo or read it online by clicking here
Answer the questions:
What did Galileo’s parents want him to study? What was Galileo’s true interest?
What did Galileo discover about physics and friction?
What did Galileo build or make to help him verify Copernicus’ ideas of a sun centered system?
What did the Catholic Church make Galileo do? Why?
What is your reaction to this reading? What part did you think was intereting?

+ How are Jackie Robinson and Galileo similar?

Due Tuesday:  Fill in the Prefix and Root photocopy with words you know. If you don't know one, skip it and go to the next one.

Wednesday Homework

Make up any missing homework. Check engrade.com if you are not sure what you missed.

Read pages 19-20 Edwin Hubble: A Man with Vision . Take notes on the photocopy I gave you in class.  Answer the questions on page 21.

Tuesday homework

Try more practice with guessing new vocabulary words in context.

Go the the websites below, do the exercises,  and print out your answers or
write them (for example: 1- c ) if you don't have a printer.

http://www.english-zone.com/vocab/vic01.html
http://www.english-zone.com/vocab/vic02.html

Buy the novel: The Five Poeple You Meet in Heaven. by Mitch Albom
 Please have in class by Friday!

Monday Homework

Panorama pages 14-16 (top to page 16 only)
Write a short paragraph (3-4 sentences): Which reading did you like best, Jackie Robinson- Breaking Barriers, Negro Leagues,  or Physics of Baseball? Why did you like it?

Weekend Homework

Read pages 11-12 "The Physics of Baseball". As you read and find vocabulary words in bold, look at page 10 and try to guess the meaning. When you finish reading, go back and take notes to use for a mini true/false reading quiz on Monday.

Keep adding words to your vocabulary notebook. Reading them once is not enough to help you remember!

Vocabulary quiz tomorrow!

Homework for Thursday:

Study for vocabulary quiz (list I gave you in class)
Read : Negro Leagues page 7 and 8

Please have both books (Panorama 3 and The Five People You Meet in Heaven)  by Friday 18 January!

Homework For Wednesday

1. Fill in words with the suffixes listed on the photocopy.
2. Read: Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers  pages 3-4.
3. Answer the comprehension questions on page 5. (go the the Links, Panorama Scans if you don't have the book).

No Homework!

Welcome to Reading 3

Hi! Sorry about the time wasted on splitting the class today.

Your homework for Monday January 7th is:

• Review pages v-xii in Panorama 3.
• Get a notebook for vocabulary and write three new words that you found in the reading.