Homework Assignments: All homework is due on Thursday, September 30, 2010. Please make sure you have a parent sign your log sheet. You do not need to turn in your reading log or vocabulary cards. You must turn in your puzzle of the week with completed guideline questions, and your writing assignment. Keep in mind your writing assignment should be in final draft form.
Assignment #1: Puzzle of the Week-Summer Survey
The 24-member Student Council is trying to decide how the school should use the available money to celebrate the beginning of summer:
Six members want to hold a school dance.
Five members want to have an old-fashioned barbecue.
Four members want to buy an all-school pass to the amusement center.
Five members want to hold a carnival.
Four members want to divide the money up equally among the classes and
let each class sponsor decide.
Express this information in three different graphical forms. Think about the discussions we have had in class and the different graphs we have discussed to help guide you.
After you have completed the graphical representations, design your own survey about celebrating summer (or any other idea such as favorite ice cream flavor, sport, video game, etc) Survey at least 10 people. Express your results in a graph also.
Guideline Questions:
Guidelines for Writing about the Puzzle of the Week
1.What is the puzzle about? Restate the situation in your own words.
Check your writing:
What are you trying to find out?
Did you give enough information for someone else to be able to solve the puzzle?
2.What are your first impressions of this puzzle? How do you think you will solve it?
Check your writing:
What strategies do you think you will use?
Might you draw a picture, act it out, make a
table, chart, or list, use objects, or use some
other way?
Does this puzzle remind you of other puzzles?
3. Describe how you solved the puzzle. Explain your method.
Check your writing:
How did you start?
What did you try that didn’t work? Did you learn n anything from those tries? What did you do when you got stuck?
Did someone help you with this puzzle? Were they helpful or not?
What steps did you use to find you your solution? Be specific so others could try your strategy.
4. How do you know your answer is right?
Check your writing:
How would you prove your solution is right if someone disagrees with you?
Could there be more than one correct solution?
Assignment #2: Vocabulary List #6
Words with Latin roots of aud-, grat-, and ject.
Vocabulary: List #6
Words with Latin Roots
1. Audible
2. Audition
3. Auditorium
4. Audience
5. Congratulate
6. Gratitude
7. Gratify
8. Inject
9. Reject
10. Conjecture
Students must know the spelling, meaning, and part of speech for each word.
Assignment #3: Writing Task
"Adventure on the Nile"
The Nile is the world's longest river. It flows for 4,145 miles through African nations such as Egypt, Rwanda, and Uganda. Do some research about the Nile at the library or on the internet. Write a Nile river adventure full of crocodiles and pyramids and whatever else captures your imagination. Be sure to use at least three facts learned during your research.
Assignment #4: Read 20 minutes each night. Record your reading on your reading log. Have your parents sign your homework sheet verifying at least 80 minutes of reading through the week. Try to find AR reading books too so you can test at school!
Have fun!
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