This document contains information about assignments for Language Arts and Social Studies classes. For Language Arts, students need their reading book, notebooks, homework, choice book, pencil and planner. They are asked a question of the day about the definition of an angstrom. For Social Studies, students will need their reading book, notebooks, homework due the next day, social studies book, notebook, ruler and colored pencils. They will be learning about Chapter 10 on Sodbusters, including questions about what changed Minnesota's landscape, subsistence farming, why new settlers came in the 1870s-1880s, if railroad inspectors treated farmers fairly, what protected the rich soil, the purpose of the Grange cooperative

1. Language Arts
You will need your:
Reading Street Book
LA Notebooks
Spelling, Vocabulary and Grammar HMWK
for “Into the Ice”
Choice Book
Pencil and Planner
Q of the Day: What is an “angstrom?”

2. angstrom - noun, ( often initial capital letter)
a unit of length, equal to one tenth of a millimicron, or one ten
millionth of a millimeter, primarily used to express
electromagnetic wavelengths. Symbol: Å;
Abbreviation: A.

3. Social Studies
Social Studies
You will need your:
Reading Street Book
LA Notebooks
Spelling, Vocabulary and Grammar
HMWK (dueTomorrow)
Social Studies Book
SS Notebook
Ruler and Colored Pencils

4. Social Studies
Chapter 10
Sodbusters

5. What changed the landscape of
Minnesota?
What is subsistence farming?
Why did new settlers come to Minnesota in
the 1870s and 1880s?
Did railroad inspectors always treat farmers
fairly?
What about the sod protected the rich soil
below?

6. What was the purpose of the Grange and
other cooperatives?
What was Sarah Tainter’s job on the farm?
What was John Tainter’s job on the farm?
What did “Empire Builder” James E. Hill
own?
What did organizer, Oliver H. Kelly start?
Speculator, Louis Fertile made a large

7. Give evidence to support this statement:
The arrival of the railroads had both a
positive and a negative effect on western
Minnesota.
Good -
Bad -

8. Why did farmers need a market for their
cash rops?W
Why was the Grange important?
Who was settling in Minnesota after the
Civil War? Why?
What were some of the different ways that
settlers could get land?

9. What types of work did men, women and
children do on the farm?
Explain what subsistence farming is and
what diversified farming is? Give details
about both.

10. Very punny,
Mrs. T.
a cuckoo clock

11. Vocabulary Words1. conquer - to overcome; get the better of
2. destiny - what becomes of someone or something; one’s
fate or fortune
3. expedition - journey for some special purpose, such as
exploration, scientific study, or military purposes
4. insulated - lined or surrounded with a material that does not
conduct energy; protected from the loss of heat, electricity, or
sound
5. isolation - the state of being separated from others, of being
alone
6. navigator - person in charge of finding the position and
course of a ship, aircraft, or expedition

12. 7. provisions - a supply of food and drinks
8. verify - to prove to be true; confirm
9. documentation - proof or support of a claim or opinion by
evidence
10. unconventional - not bound by or conforming to
convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality