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6th Must Do
Amelia Earhart, First Lady of Flight
qLaunching the theme questions
q“Baseball Hero With a Heart” questions
q“Mystery of the Cliff Dwellers” questions
qVocabulary—P.B. 79
qRead, “Amelia Earhart, First Lady of Flight” pg. 145
Selection skill: Fact and Opinion (see colored folder)
qRed: 3 paragraphs
qGreen: comparison chart
qBlue: fact & opinion worksheet
Comprehension Activities:
qBlue: P.B. 82&83
Red and Green Only:
Red must complete all 3, Green must complete 2
qP.B. 81,82,83
qThinking about the selection p.158 #1-7 (in complete sentences)
qComprehension questions
Grammar Practice:
qSingular and Plural Possessive Nouns P.B.89
qMore possessive nouns P.B. 90
If you finish with the above activities you can choose from the following:
qDraw a map showing the flight path that Amelia took in her attempted flight around the world.
qWriting Practice—P.B. 92&93
qUsing the Amelia Earhart story and the Bessie Coleman story (pg. 160), write a 1-2 paragraph generalization entitled “Women Pilots”
qWrite a dialogue. Look back through the story at any attempts Amelia made to communicate. Write a dialogue between Amelia and the radio operator.
qWrite a sequel. What do you think happened to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan? Explain what happened to them after they disappeared. Minimum 2 paragraphs
qDefine the following vocabulary words:
Equator, moral support, course, navigator, homing signals, morse code, accounting, journal, runway, bearing, static, reasoned, disappearance, aviation, transmission, hoax, grounded, analyzed, testimony, estate, compelling, taxied, controversy, inspiration, accomplish
qRead “Bessie Coleman” pgs. 160-163
Answer these questions in complete sentences:
- How would you describe Bessie Coleman’s response to the racial prejudice she encountered?
- Why do you think the author begins the selection with an event that occurred in 1922, and then moves back in time to Bessie’s childhood?
- Why do you think Coleman wanted to start a school for African American aviators?
- Compare and contrast Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart.
qCalculate averages
Look back at page 148 to see how many miles Amelia and Fred had flown in one month when they landed in New Guinea. If they had already made thirty stops, what was the average distance they few between stops? Between countries?
How many more miles did Amelia and Fred plan to fly on their journey? What fraction of their total flight would this last part represent?
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6th Must Do
Dinosaur Ghost
q“Boy Invents Toys!!!” questions
q“The Search for Monsters of Mystery” questions
qVocabulary—P.B. 114
qRead, “Dinosaur Ghost” pg. 190
Selection skill: Text Organization (see colored folder)
qRed: fictional story writing
qGreen: New headings
qBlue: text organization worksheet
Comprehension Activities:
qBlue: P.B. 117&118
Red and Green Only:
Red must complete all 3, Green must complete 2
qP.B. 116,117, 118
qThinking about the selection p.208 #1-7 (in complete sentences)
qComprehension questions
Grammar Practice:
qTransitive and Intransitive Verbs P.B. 124
qBeing Verbs and Linking Verbs P.B .125
If you finish with the above activities you can choose from the following:
qMake an evidence chart. See pg. 209 of your reading book.
qWriting Practice—P.B. 126, 127, 128
qWrite a travel brochure. Write a travel brochure about Ghost Ranch. Tell visitors about the site and its history. Also explain some of the ideas about how Coelphysis died out.
qCreate a dinosaur. Review the illustrations of dinosaurs in Dinosaur Ghost and the descriptions on pages 194-195. Then create a model of Coelophysis. You can use any materials you have handy (clay, play dough, paper mache, legos, sticks, pasta, etc.)
qThe story makes some generalizations.
Generalization: A broad statement that is true about most of the items or people in a given category
Read over the two generalizations and explain in a paragraph whether each generalization is valid and why or why not.
- Many of earth’s great catastrophes have been caused by erupting volcanoes (pg. 99)
- Asteroids often have more iridium than earth rocks (pg. 200
qDefine the following vocabulary words:
Paleontologist, prehistoric, fossils, excavation, specimens, emerged, prey, marrow, embryos, agility, hypotheses, evidence, treacherous, catastrophes, geologists, traces, asteroids, extinct, climatic, theory, seeped, channel, churning, ligaments, burrowing, drought, surge, erosion
qReader’s Library. Read “
qRead “Doctor Dinosaur” pgs. 210-213
Answer these questions in complete sentences:
- How does the author show that Jack Horner has an informal approach to studying fossils?
- How did luck play a role in Jack Horner’s discovery?
- How did Horner’s examination of the nests challenge people’s beliefs about dinosaurs?
- In what way will Horner’s discovery still be valuable, even if his ideas about it turn out to be wrong?
- How was Jack Horner’s research similar to the research done by scientists studying Coelophysis?
