Students should have new homework log sheets with assignments attached. The assignments are as follows:
Assignment #1: Puzzle of the Week and Guideline Questions: Students must solve the following math problem and answer the four guideline questions. All work should be shown on paper, and explained clearly through question responses. Please consult previous week's homework blog for guideline questions and rubric.
Puzzle of the Week: Ft. Knox
Late one night a burglar somehow got into one of the vaults in Fort Knox and started out with a big sack of gold coins. No one really knows how much he stole. At any rate, on his way out, he was stopped by one of the guards, who caught him "holding the bag" so to speak. Fortunately for him, the burglar was able to talk his way out of trouble by offering the guard half the money he had taken with a bonus of $2,000 thrown in. Just as he was walking away, praising his good luck at having gotten free, he was stopped by a second guard. It took the same bribe, half of all the money he had left, with $2,000 thrown in, to get by the second guard. Just as he was about to leave, you guessed it, he was stopped by yet a third guard who let him go only after receiving half of all the burglar had left, with $2,000 thrown in.
By the time the burglar left the front gate of Fort Knox, he had mixed emotions. After all, he did leave with $9,000 more than he had when he arrived and he escaped a free man. But as he thought of all the money he had left behind with the guards, he wept. Oh, by the way, you now know enough to calculate how much he had taken in the first place.
ideas for solving: http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/k4_12dir/fortKnox1.html
Assignment #2: Study Vocabulary words, definitions, and parts of speech for Friday test.
List #3: Antonyms
1. malice
2. slovenly
3. mandatory
4. reverence
5. posterity
6. kindness
7. immaculate
8. unnecessary
9. disrespect
10. ancestors
Assignment #3: Writing Task
A Fifth Face on Mt Rushmore
Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota features the faces of four U.S. presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. The faces are 60 feet high, making them the world's largest portrait busts. What if you could add a fifth face to Mt Rushmore? It doesn't have to be a president--it can be a sports hero, a doctor, or even your next door neighbor. Now, write about who you would choose for Mt Rushmore and describe why this person is important to you.
Plan and draft your paragraph on the back of your prompt sheet. Write the final copy on the lines on the front of the sheet. Remember capitalization, punctuation, and grammar rules. This writing should be minimum of one well written paragraph. (5-6 sentences)
Assignment #4: Read 20 minutes each night, or some combination that totals 100 minutes between Thursday and Thursday. Fill in reading log and submit on Thursday.
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