Homework is assigned on Thursdays and due the following Thursday. Students will be given time in class to record assignments.
Assignment #1: Math Puzzle of the Week:
The Riddler has left a clue for Batman to follow at the scene of each crime. These are the clues that Batman has found:
(1) There is a 1 in the thousands place.
(2) The digit in the tens place is 9 times the digit in the thousands place.
(3) Multiply the digit in the thousands place by 2.
(4) The digit in the ones place is a hand without a thumb.
(5) The digit in the hundreds is 2 less than the number in the tens.
Solve the riddle to find the number and help Batman stop the Riddler. Then make 2 of your own riddles with at least five clues, and an answer with at least 4 digits.
Assignment #2: Study Vocabulary words, definitions, and parts of speech for Friday test. (attached word list) Possible strategies for studying include making word cards, typing words on the computer to practice spelling, quiz with a partner or parent, etc. Students are also responsible for memorizing the quote of the week.
Ecology Unit Vocabulary List
• Environment: all the living and nonliving things with which an organism may interact.
• Ecology: the study of the relationships and interactions of living things with one another and with their environment.
• Ecosystems: a unit consisting of all the living and nonliving things in a given area that interact with one another.
• Community: the living part of an ecosystem.
• Populations: a group of organisms of the same species living together in the same area.
• Habitat: the place in which an organism lives and obtains the resources it needs to survive.
• Producer: an organism that is able to make its own food by using a source of energy to turn simple raw materials into food.
• Consumer: an organism that cannot make its own food.
• Decomposer: an organism that breaks down the bodies of dead organisms into simpler substances.
• Food Chain: a representation of a series of events in which food energy and matter are transferred from one organism to another.
• Food Web: a diagram that consists of many overlapping food chains.
• Niche: an organism’s role in an ecosystem, which includes everything the organism does and everything the organism needs in its environment.
• Competition: the type of interaction in which organisms struggle with one another to obtain resources.
• Predator: an organism that kills and eats another organism.
• Prey: an organism that is eaten by a predator.
• Symbiosis: a close relationship between two organisms in which one organism lives near, on, or even inside another organism and in which at least one organism benefits.
• Commensalism: the type of interaction in which organisms struggle with one another to obtain resources.
• Mutualism: a form of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit.
• Parasitism: a form of symbiosis in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
• Parasite: an organism that lives on or inside of a host organism and harms the host.
• Host: an organism that provides a home for another organism; in parasitism, the organism that is harmed by the parasite.
Quote of the Week: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama
Assignment #3: Writing Task: Find a poem. Read the poem. Write a one-paragraph response to the poem. Please make sure you include the name of the poem and the author of the poem, and attach a copy of the poem to your homework. You should address which poetic elements stood out in your mind, as well as describe your emotional response to the poem. (a paragraph should be a minimum of 5 well-written sentences)
Assignment #4: Read 20 minutes each night, or some combination that totals 100 minutes between Thursday and Thursday.
OPTIONAL: Create a writing piece for the Author’s Tea on April 25th.
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