The document provides an overview of homework assignments for Thursday, February 1, 2013. It includes reading a story and summarizing it using a character and setting chart, completing math review pages and fluency practice problems, and doing extra practice punctuation questions in dialogue. Students are asked to go over their homework and complete a multiplication table as part of their morning work. Vocabulary, genres, homophones, and adverbs are also covered in the document.

1. What would your family rather do together: go bowling,
see a movie, play a board game, or have an indoor
picnic? Explain.
Thursday
January 31, 2013
Emily
Christy
Jordan
Ayanna
Leslie
RicardoIxza Bryan
Samira
Alexis Jessica Jose Jaileen
Michael
Yamilee
Lilah Philicia Donovan
Carlos Edward
Kareena Kathy
Adrianette Remy
Diana Alejandra
Leon Jeffrey David
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2. Morning Work
DO NOW:
Write the x12
Times Table ten
times.
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3. Reading ­ Civil Rights (p. 392)
Talk About It
What rights do you think
all citizens of the Unites
States should have?
What does
discrimination mean to
you?
Look at the picture and respond in writing.
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4. To scald means "to heat to a
temperature just below the boiling
point."
Giving permission for something allows
it to happen.
An autograph is a person's signature.
A fare is the price charged to transport
a person.
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5. If you have blurted out something, you
said it suddenly, without thinking.
Something clenched is closed or
squeezed together tightly.
Chiseled means "chipped or shaped
by a metal tool called a chisel."
Something that is spectacular is very
unusual or remarkable.
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6. Writing ­ Civil Rights
News Writing
Suppose that you live
in the 1960s and work
for the civil rights
movement. Write a
news article describing
your experience.
Use FOUR vocabulary
words and highlight
them.
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7. Reading ­ Lunch Counter Encounter (p. 394)
Homophones
Homophones are words
that sound the same but
have different meanings
and spellings. For
example, the word fare
homophones
has a different meaning
than the word fair.
Character and Setting
A character is a person or animal in a story.
The setting of the story is where and when it
takes place.
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8. A Character and Setting Chart can help you list
important details about characters and settings. These
two features are part of the story structure.
Characters Setting
June 1963,
Joe, Paul
Mississippi
baseball field
Joe's mother
or park
man, woman in
drugstore
wheelchair
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9. Reading ­ Goin' Someplace Special (p. 396)
Genre
Historical Fiction tells
a story in which
fictional characters
take part in actual
events from the past.
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10. stonemason: a person who cuts stone
or builds walls or other things from
stone.
BLT: an abbreviation for bacon,
lettuce, and tomato sandwich.
zinnia: any of several garden plants
such as large daisies, grown from their
showy flowers of many colors.
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11. Character Setting
'Tricia Ann is
respectful and
funny, and Mama
loves Frances's house
Someplace
Special.
Mama Frances
is strong and On the bus
independent.
'Tricia Ann is
hurt that The Southland
people are Hotel
staring at her.
Blooming Mary
is kind, but The Mission
misunderstood Church ruins
by others.
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12. Reading Homework
Use your Character and Setting
Chart to help you summarize
Goin' Someplace Special. Be
sure your summary includes the
most important information from
the story.
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13. Math ­ Power Practice / Homework Review
DO NOW:
• Complete
the
Multiplication
Record
Sheet.
• Go over
homework.
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14. Math ­ Fluency Practice (p. 289)
Mathematical Practice
• Complete exercises
1­20 on loose leaf
paper.
• Show ALL work.
• Circle the final answer.
• Work will be graded as
CLASSWORK.
• This is practice for
Monday's Math exam.
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15. Math Homework
"Review" pages 291­293
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16. Spelling ­ Exam
Exam
• Drop off
exam in
RED BIN.
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17. Language Arts ­ Punctuation in Dialogue (p. 424)
Class Work
• Copy the RULES
• Complete 1­20
on pages
424­425
Homework
• Extra Practice, page 492 1­25
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18. Adverbs
An adverb tells more about a verb or adjective. Adverbs usually tell
where, how, or when something happened. Adverbs that tell how
or in what manner something happened often end in – ly.
Identify the adverb in each sentence.
Then drag it to the correct place in the chart.
Our cat ran away.
away
She answered the question honestly.
honestly
Julia is never absent.
never
The band played extremely well.
extremely
yesterday
We watched the baseball game yesterday.
The plane flew overhead.
overhead
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19. Homework Summary for Thursday February 1, 2013
Reading
Use your Character and Setting Chart to help you
summarize Goin' Someplace Special. Be sure your
summary includes the most important information from
the story.
Math
"Review" pages 291­293
Language Arts
Extra Practice, page 492 1­25
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