Read and write every day! Record the title of the book/text and the pages read each day in your learning log.

• Hopefully you’ve been reading a lot during this time. Books, poetry, articles...it’s all good reading! Perhaps you are finishing up a book this week or you’re starting a new one - the most important thing to remember is that a good book is like a good “buddy.”

Spend time each day this week filling in a reading log (in addition to your learning log). This reading log will contain information for every book you have read this school year, this includes your at-home learning time.

• • The reading log should have five columns

1. Title and author

2. Summary

3. Theme

4. Explain how you personally connected to a character or situation in the book/text

5. Explain what other book/text this is similar to

Writing Prompt: Choose one book/text read this school year, including at-home learning time, and choose a genre to write in that conveys your understanding of the book/text. This means you can write a poem, or a letter, or a short story, or an expository essay, or an argumentative essay. You choose! Whatever genre you choose to write in should demonstrate you understand the meaning/theme of the book/text.

• A spinner has 11 equal-sized sections marked 1 through 11. Find each probability.

  • You spin once and land on an odd number.

  • You spin once and land on an even number.

• Find the probability of each event. Write each answer as a fraction in simplest form, as a decimal to the nearest hundredth, and as a percent to the nearest whole number.

  • A jar contains 4 cherry cough drops and 10 honey cough drops. You choose one cough drop without looking. The cough drop is cherry.

  • There are 12 pieces of fruit in a bowl. Five are lemons and the rest are limes. You choose a piece of fruit without looking. The piece of fruit is a lime.

  • You roll a number cube. You roll a number that is greater than 2 and less than 5.

Choose “ONE” of the following tasks to complete on Space science:

NASA has invited you to participate in a simulation where you must prepare for a space exploration. Please do the following in preparation for your assignment:

• Identify the accommodations needed to survive during space travel.

• Given the accommodations needed to survive, illustrate or mock-up one accommodation that will ensure survival in space.

• Justify in writing, the choice of materials and / or design factors of your accommodation in relation to support of life during space travel.

OR

You have been selected by the International Space Agency to participate in a simulation where aliens who have lost their homes in the universe are orbiting the Earth and have requested assistance in finding a new home. This particular species of aliens have the same basic needs as humans. Please do the following:

• Analyze the characteristics of objects in our solar system that allow life to exist on Earth.

• Write a rationale describing how the characteristics of objects in our solar system support life on Earth, and why Earth would be a suitable new home for the aliens.

• Create a political cartoon about the effects of the Great Depression in Texas. The cartoon should include a title and a caption with the drawing.

• Create a picture portfolio that addresses the question, “How did the Dust Bowl affect the lives of Texans?” The portfolio must include at least four pictures with accompanying explanations of how that picture is reflective of an impact of the Dust Bowl, along with a map showing the area of Texas affected by the Dust Bowl.