Homework
Monday:
*Choose four academic vocabulary words and two academic words and write them in your ELA notebooks. Choose from the list: summarize, message, compare contrast, literature, fierce, indignantly, conceited, sorrowfully, uninvited, wonder, behave, understand, within.
*Reread "The Wings of the Butterfly" to someone or yourself at home. Think about what new things you learned about at home and jot them down in your ELA notebooks.
Tuesday:
*Reread the poem at home with someone or to yourself at home. List at least six examples of biodiversity that the author writes about in the poem. Be sure to quote directly from the poem.
*Identify at least three vocabulary words on page 33 that are either new to you or important to the gist of the text.
Wednesday:
*Reread pages 35-36 to someone or yourself at home. Add any new learning about Meg Lowman to the KWL chart about Meg Lowman in your ELA notebooks. Add any new understandings about biodiversity to the AQUA Biodiversity chart in your ELA notebooks.
*Add three words reviewed in class today to your notebook.
Thursday:
*Reread pages 37-39 and your interview to someone or yourself at home. Discuss with that person whether you would have taken the spider out of the forest, and why. In your ELA notebooks, write a brief response to the question: "As a scientist, would you take a new species out of the rainforest? Why or why not?
*Choose three academic words that we reviewed. Choose from the list: explain, point of view, scientific vocabulary, inferring, inhabitant, winching.
Friday:
*Reread pages 39-42 to someone at home or to yourself. As you read, use a highlighter or pencil to mark the following passages: Describe how Meg Lowman conducts research. Describe what Meg Lowman researches.
*Add four vocabulary words from pages 39-42 in your ELA notebooks. Two academic words and two scientific words. Choose the words from pages 39-41.
*Choose four academic vocabulary words and two academic words and write them in your ELA notebooks. Choose from the list: summarize, message, compare contrast, literature, fierce, indignantly, conceited, sorrowfully, uninvited, wonder, behave, understand, within.
*Reread "The Wings of the Butterfly" to someone or yourself at home. Think about what new things you learned about at home and jot them down in your ELA notebooks.
Tuesday:
*Reread the poem at home with someone or to yourself at home. List at least six examples of biodiversity that the author writes about in the poem. Be sure to quote directly from the poem.
*Identify at least three vocabulary words on page 33 that are either new to you or important to the gist of the text.
Wednesday:
*Reread pages 35-36 to someone or yourself at home. Add any new learning about Meg Lowman to the KWL chart about Meg Lowman in your ELA notebooks. Add any new understandings about biodiversity to the AQUA Biodiversity chart in your ELA notebooks.
*Add three words reviewed in class today to your notebook.
Thursday:
*Reread pages 37-39 and your interview to someone or yourself at home. Discuss with that person whether you would have taken the spider out of the forest, and why. In your ELA notebooks, write a brief response to the question: "As a scientist, would you take a new species out of the rainforest? Why or why not?
*Choose three academic words that we reviewed. Choose from the list: explain, point of view, scientific vocabulary, inferring, inhabitant, winching.
Friday:
*Reread pages 39-42 to someone at home or to yourself. As you read, use a highlighter or pencil to mark the following passages: Describe how Meg Lowman conducts research. Describe what Meg Lowman researches.
*Add four vocabulary words from pages 39-42 in your ELA notebooks. Two academic words and two scientific words. Choose the words from pages 39-41.