Reading Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Brian Anderson
- Term
- 2023-2024 School Year
- Department
- 5th Grade
Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
Due:
Where the Red Fern Grows Section 2 quiz (chapters 6-9)
Classwork/Homework
We are finishing Chapter 9 today in class and students will have time to update their reading journals and their notebooks with key events and literary devices/vocabulary, both of which will be on tomorrow's quiz.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 281-290
Classwork/Homework
We are reading the final stories of our last unit in our Wonders books this week and part of next week. Students are also working on the next set of Your Turn Workbook pages which are due on Thursday (pages 281-290).
We are reading these stories and poems:
- Words to Save the World: The Work of Rachel Carson
- "To Travel" (poetry)
- Planting the Trees of Kenya
- "You are My Music" and "A Time to Talk"
- Your Turn Workbook pages 281-290
Due:
Your Turn pages 271-280
Classwork/Homework
As we read our next two stories "Mysterious Oceans" and "Survival at 40 Below," we will complete pages 271-280 in our Your Turn Workbook.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 261-270
Classwork/Homework
This week's literature theme is Getting Along and we read two stories today titled "The Bully" and "The Friend Who Changed My Life" and now students are working on completing Your Turn workbook pages 261-270 for Wednesday. All answers requiring open ended responses should be written in complete sentences.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 241-250
Classwork/Homework
We read our last story of Unit 5 today titled "Should Plants and Animals from Other Places Live Here?" and we started working on our next set of Your Turn workbook pages 241-250 which are due on Wednesday.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 231-239
Classwork/Homework
As we complete various stories this week, we will also complete the following pages in our Your Turn workbook (pages 231-239).
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 211-220
Classwork/Homework
As we finish various stories in our Wonders books, we will complete pages 211-220 in our workbook.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 201-210
Classwork
We read "Miguel in the Middle" today in class, and discussed the caused and effects of the Great Depression.
Homework
We are finishing pages 201-210 in the Your Turn workbook to be collected in the morning.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 221-229
Homework
As we complete our reading unit, students are finishing pages 221-229 in their Your Turn Workbook.
Due:
Wonders Quiz
Classwork
We read our final story in Unit 4 (Rosa: The Rosa Parks Story), and used our new question cubes to write responses in our notebooks.
Homework
Over the next two days, students will take the following reading quizzes on their iPads: One Well, Rosa, and A Window into History: The Mystery of the Cellar Window.
Due:
Your Turn workbook pages 161-170
Classwork/Homework
Today and Tuesday students will read three stories in class from their Wonders readers entitled "Where's Brownie," "A Window into History: The Mystery of the Cellar Window," and "A Second Chance for Chip: The Case of the Curious Canine." In class and at home students are then completing pages 161-170 in their Your Turn Workbook.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 151-160 (Legends and Heroes)
Classwork
We worked in pairs to read two stories today in class: How Grandma Spider Stole the Sun and Pecos Bill's Wild Ride and completed pages in our Your Turn workbook.
Homework
Finish pages 151-160 in the Your Turn workbook, writing complete sentences for the responses.
Due:
Davy Crockett Saved the World (Heroes and Legends)
Classwork
I posed the following questions to the class: Who represents a hero in your own life? What legends, if any, does your family entertain or find interesting? When was a time when you were brave? We then read "Davy Crockett Saved the World" and learned about his legend and deeds (fact and fiction).
Due:
The Story of Snow (Substitute assignment)
Students are to read "The Story of Snow" in their Wonders Anthology book and while they read the expository text, they should take notes in their reading notebook on the main ideas and the vocabulary highlighted in the text. Please inform students they will have a reading quiz on the story tomorrow.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 101-110
Classwork/Homework
We have finished reading most of our stories in our Wonders unit, so students are completing these pages in the Your Turn Workbook by Friday (pages 101-110). Complete sentences for all responses.
Due:
Winter's Tail/Your Turn Workbook
Classwork
Students read A Winter's Tail in their Wonders Anthology book.
Homework
Finish reading the story and complete pages 131-135 in the Your Turn workbook.
Due:
Wonders Anthology and Your Turn Workbook
Classwork and Homework
In the larger Wonders Anthology text students are to read the fantasy story "Weslandia" on pages 198-211 and "Plants with a Purpose" on pages 214-215. While reading "Weslandia," students are to complete pages 111-112 in their Wonders Your Turn Workbook. Homework: Finish both stories, the workbook pages, and also complete pages 113-120 in the Your Turn Workbook (they do not need to bring their Anthology book home unless they were unable to finish both stories).
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 86-90
Classwork
Read our last folktale, Blancaflor, and learned about tone.
Homework
Complete pages 86-90 in the Your Turn Workbook writing in complete sentences. Please tear out pages for tomorrow.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 81-85
Classwork
We read a folktale titled The Magical Lost Brocade today and learned about figurative language: personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and idioms. We also learned about theme.
Homework
Your Turn workbook pages 81-85 answer in complete sentences.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 62-65
Classwork
We started reading the fairy tale, The Mountain of the Moons, by Grace Lin which reveals different forms of figurative language and a theme of "hard work and determination pay off." We will finish the story in class over the next day or so.
Homework
To complement the stories we are reading in class, students will bring home their Your Turn Workbook tonight and complete pages 62-65 (they do not need their textbooks to complete this work). Please have students tear the completed pages out of their workbook to turn in to class in the morning.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 41-50
Classwork
We read "The Future of Transportation," our last persuasive article for this unit. We then created slogans to support both arguments: pro-automobile and pro-public transportation. Short debate followed.
Homework
Complete pages 41-50 in the Your Turn Workbook and write complete sentences when required.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook
Classwork
We finished reading The Boy Who Invented T.V. and also read Time to Invent (Lydia and her cell phone alarm clock). We learned about Sequence and completed a sequence organizer.
Homework
Students will complete pages 33-38 in their Your Turn Wonders workbook.
Due:
Whitewater Adventure (Wonders Reading)
Classwork
Today we read the story Whitewater Adventure in the Wonders Reader. We also reviewed the vocabulary words from the story and began completing page 18 in our Wonders Your Turn workbook.
Due:
Your Turn Workbook pages 6-10
Classwork
We read the story, One Hen, and discussed the following theme: how one individual can make a big difference in people's lives (starting from a small idea).
Homework
Complete pages 6-10 in the Your Turn Workbook.