Harris’ Hound Dogs

Write a paragraph about how you achieved a goal.

Based on what you know about Stormi and the story, write another scene between her and Hannah

Blog: Explore the ways that animals are adapted to their environments.
Choose an animal from Exploding Ants.  Write two sentences to describe your animal.  Then find and list 3 to 4 interesting facts about that animal that were not in the book.

How would you make a model of a dinosaur? Write an explanation and the steps in your plan.  Remember to use good details and sequence words.

Write a summary of the story using 45 words or less.  Remember to focus on the really important information from the story.  Use good capitalization, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Brainstorm ideas for a useful invention.  Describe your invention and how it works.  What is the purpose of your invention?  How would the invention improve your life?

Each of the stories in unit 2 is about doing the right thing.  Compare and contrast the main characters in 2 of the stories (Inside Out, Passage to Freedom, The Ch’i-lin Purse, and Jane Goodall).  Consider how their choice changed or helped the world around them at the time and into the future. Write at least 1 paragraph.

Leveled Readers

In the story The Ch’i-Lin Purse we learn about Hsiang-ling and what happens to her.  Write at least one paragraph to compare and contrast  her life before and after the flood.  At the end, write at least one sentence to summarize, in your own words, what she has learned in the story.

Being able to summarize a story is a very important skill.  A person who can do it well, is able to tell the difference between what is important and what is not.

Remember to focus on the most important information.

Read Shutting Out the Sky then write a summary of the story that is 30 words or less.

In the story is the idiom  he could ”hit a ball so hard and so far, it would land somewhere in the middle of next week”.  

An idiom is a phrase that does not mean what it says.  An example of an idiom is the phrase “a chip on your shoulder”.  This phrase does not mean to actually have a piece of wood on your shoulder.  It means to be upset about something that has happened in the past.

Explain the idiom ”hit a ball so hard and so far, it would land somewhere in the middle of next week”, then think of or find 3 idioms and write them (they do not have to be from the story).  Then write a sentence to explain what they actually mean.