Morning everyone,
Today it's chapter 18 to 20 of Holes - the mystery deepens.
Keep up your WOW words, there will be a short test on the definitions on Friday!
We will do a bit more division practice today. Keep it up everyone, it's a skill that takes persistence and practice to perfect.
Remember, as always, to do your usual (Hit the Button, Daily 10, Work it Out, English in Practice and ixl.).
There is also some History work today on Martin Luther King Jr. It was MLK Day on Monday.
Talk to you at 11am everyone!
Mr Kelly
ENGLISH
Reading: -"Holes" by Louis Sachar - Today we will read chapter 18-20.
When you have finished your reading, try and complete the comprehension questions.
TAKE A BREAK! 15 minutes
Suggestions
Maths
Topmarks - Hit the Button and Daily 10 - Practice all your tables, multiplication and division - 10 minutes
Work it Out Week 14 Wednesday20 minutes
Maths - Watch the videos below then complete the exercises.
BREAK/LUNCH! - 30 minutes
English in Practice - Day 55
History - Martin Luther King Jr
IXL - Maths - Level G i 1-5
English - Level G F 1-4
Read/Listen to Chapters 18-20
Complete the Comprehension
Send me any WOW Words you found.
Read the chapters in your novel, or online below or listen to the audiobook. Follow the book as you listen to the recording.
Answer the following questions.
WOW Words - find the definition and any synonyms. Use your dictionary or Collins Co-build Online dictionary.
barren
desolate
defective
mutter
scarcity
forlorn
vicious
precious
assign
automatically
Division Review
Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the Black civil rights movement. He spoke out against laws which kept Black and White people separate and led marches demanding fair laws for all people. Martin Luther King Jr. was determined to ensure that all Americans had the same rights regardless of their race.
He was born on January 15th 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. His father was a pastor and his mother had been a teacher. Martin Luther King Jr. loved to play with his friends but, as his friends got older, two of them stopped playing with him. The father of one of the boys didn’t like his son playing with him because he was Black. Martin Luther King Jr. was deeply hurt and upset and couldn’t understand why the colour of his skin would make any difference.
For Black people living in the USA, life was challenging. There were separate areas for Black and White people on public transport, in parks, restaurants and even in public toilets. This was called segregation. Up until the 1960s, Black people in some states of the US could not vote in elections. In some states, Black children had to go to separate schools from their White peers. These schools were often poorly funded and equipped.
Read about one of the most famous incidents of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA.
The 1955 Bus Boycott In 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black woman, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a White man in the city where Martin Luther King Jr. preached. Martin Luther King Jr. called on Black people to protest by not travelling on buses in that area. The boycott lasted for 385 days and the situation became so tense that Martin Luther King Jr.’s house was bombed. Other people were furious and wanted to fight back with violence but Martin Luther King Jr. said that things needed to be solved peacefully and talked about the importance of White and Black people getting along. The boycott ended with a United States court ruling that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses.
In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end racial prejudice in the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr. went on to organise other non-violent demonstrations against the unfair treatment of Black people. In 1963, he led a huge march on Washington DC, the US capital. The march on Washington involved 250,000 people travelling to the Lincoln Memorial (Abraham Lincoln was the president who put an end to slavery in America). Here, in front of the enormous crowd, King made his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. Here are some short extracts:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“I have a dream that one day… little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
Rules in America began to change. The US Government brought in laws to ensure equal rights for all US citizens and to give everybody the chance to vote.
Although there is still a long way to go for racial equality in America, the work of Martin Luther King Jr. was a big step in the right direction.
Tragically, on 4th April 1968, King was shot and killed outside his motel room. His funeral was attended by 300,000 mourners.
In 1983, US President Ronald Reagan declared that the third Monday in January each year would be a holiday to remember King’s achievements and the ideas of living in a world which was fair for everyone, no matter what the colour of their skin.