2012-2013 Summer Homework for Students Entering 5th Grade

5^th Grade Summer Homework

2012-2013

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Math:                                                                                 Due: August 27, 2012

1)     Be prepared for a speed test on multiplication/division facts.  Students should be able to complete 100 simple mult/div problems in less than 3 minutes…. Practice. Practice. Practice!

2)   Complete the Simple Solutions book that Mrs. Gerstenberger will give you in the last week of school. 

a.      If the material is too difficult for students to complete on their own, please contact a tutor or a program to aide your child in the understanding of the material. If you need help finding a tutor please contact me, I may be able to assist you in finding a tutor. LennonSJS@me.com 

b.     Students who DO NOT complete the assigned work are at a great disadvantage to start the year.  This will be the first graded assignment of the school year.

c.      *For new students to the school, please purchase the Level 4 Mathematics at http://www.simplesolutions.org and complete the second book of the two.

Language Arts/Reading:                                                 Due: August 27, 2012

Minimum:

A) Read two books from the list on the next page this summer.  Choose one book for a book report.  Choose one idea from “Column A” and one choice from “Column B” from “Ways to Share a Book” for a book report.

Maximum:

B)     Read four books (or more!) from the list on the next page.  Choose two to write about for a book report.  Choose two ideas from “Column A” and two ideas from “Column B” from “Ways to Share a Book” for a book report.

Summer Book List

Author	Title	Author	Title
Patricia C. McKissack	A Picture of Freedom	Karen Hesse	Out of the Dust
Ursula K. Leguin	A Wizard of Earthsea	Patrica Reilly Giff	Pictures of Hollis Woods
Madeleine L Engle	A Wrinkle in Time	Sterling North	Rascal
Laurie Halse	Anderson’s Chains	Brian Jacques	Redwall (any of the series)
L. M. Montgomery	Anne of Green Gables series	Lynne Reid Banks	Return of the Indian
Kate DiCamillo	Because of Winn Dixie	Edward Irving Wortis	Secret School
Armstrong Sperry	Call It Courage	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	Shiloh series
Jack London	Call of the Wild or White Fang	Marie McSwigan	Snow Treasure
Karen Cushman	Catherine Called Birdy	William Howard Armstrong	Sounder
Neil Gaiman	Coraline	Jerry Spinelli	Stargirl
Elvira Woodruff	Dear Austin	John Reynolds Gardiner	Stone Fox
Gary Korman	Dive series	Betsy Byars	Summer of the Swans
Korman	Everest series	Kate DiCamillo	Tale of Despereaux
E. L. Konigsburg	From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankewiler	Edward Bloor	Tangerine
Walt Morey	Gentle Ben	Barbara Robinson	The Best School Year Ever
Leguin	Gifts series	Louise Erdrich	The Birchbark House
Gary Paulsen	Hatchet	Tamora Pierce	The Circle of Magic Series
Robert McCloskey	Homer Price	Lois Lowry	The Giver
Carl Hiassen	Hoot	Katherine Paterson	The Great Gilly Hopkins
Thomas Rockwell	How to Eat Fried Worms	C. S. Lewis	The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Cornelia Funke	Inkheart Trilogy	Nancy Farmer	The Sea of Trolls
Esther Forbes	Johnny Tremain	Charles Portis	True Grit
Jean Craighead George	Julie of the Wolves	Robert Kimmel Smith	War with Grandpa
Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	Wilson Rawls	Where the Red Fern Grows
		Sharon Creech	Love that Dog and Hate that Cat

Many Ways to Share a Book

Column A	Column B
1A. Make a new book jacket, designing the cover art and the blurb or synopsis on the back.	1B. Make a poster for the book, including why you would recommend that someone read the book.
2A. Prepare a one-page newspaper about the book. Include the 5 W’s: who the main characters are, what happened, where the story takes place, when the story takes place and why you did or did not enjoy the book.	2B. Write a poem about the book.
3A. Write a letter to the author, telling her how much you enjoyed the book and why.	3B. Create a postcard with an important event on the front and write a letter to a friend explaining what the book was about and whether or not they should read it.
4A. Write a script for a radio or TV broadcast of an important part in the story.	4B. Make an eight section comic strip telling the story.
5A. Keep a diary for a character in the book.	5B. Make a map of where the story takes place. Make a map key that shows where important parts of the story happened.
6A. Write about why or why it would not make a great movie.	6B. Make a crossword puzzle or word search using characters names, the title, setting, and other important words from the book.
7A. Describe a scene from the book as if you were a TV reporter.	7B. Create a scroll or hand-rolled movie to illustrate the book.
8A. Rewrite one of the important moments in a storybook for a younger child.	8B. Make a shoebox diorama of an important event in the book.
9A. Choose a character in the book you would like (or not like) to have as a friend. Explain why.	9B. Write a glossary (dictionary) of words from the story. Include definitions and some illustrations.
10A. Write an interview between the two main characters.	10B. Put an important item from the book into a shoebox. Write up clues so your class can guess what the item is. Then explain why the item is important to the story.
11A. Pick a book you think the main character would enjoy reading. Explain why you think they would like to read it.	11B. Make a time line of events in the story.
12A. Make a list of facts you learned from the book.	12B. Plan a restaurant menu with items that you think the characters in the story would eat.
13A. Determine and explain the most exciting part of the book. Be sure to give at least three reasons why.	13B. Create paper dolls of the two main characters.
14A. Which character in the book would you choose for a friend? Why?	14B. Use the setting of the book to create a greeting card. Write to the main character in the card and tell them how you feel about them.
15A. Using information from the book about one of the main characters, rewrite the ending of the book.	15B. Write a song about the book.
16A. In a good paragraph, identify and analyze the main idea of the book.	16B. Write a list of questions you have about the book.
17A. Compare this book with the last book you read.	17B. Make a board game based on the book.
	18B. Choose an interesting character from your book. Think of what his/her dislikes are; then think of a gift you would like to give him/her. Design a greeting card to go along with the gift in which you explain why you gave that gift.
	19B. List the places in the book that are important. Then sketch a map including these places as you imagine they may look. It may be a city map or a country map or any other kind of map.

Civil War Presentation Times

Civil War presentations should be given in full costume with a prop(s) and students may come to school on Monday dressed as their Civil War character.  Students should have the speech (mostly) memorized.  Speeches should last between 2 minutes (minimum) to 4 minutes (maximum).

Students will give speeches on Monday (see times below) all parents are invited to come see our living museum of Civil War characters.

8:15	Michael
8:20	Josue
	Joshua
8:25	Sarah
	Tayte
8:30	Angie
	Chloe
8:35	Mackenzie
	Heaven
8:40	GiGi
	Jalen
8:45	Jordan
	Bethael
8:50	Julia
	Zyan
8:55	Kazuo
	Khari
9:00	Christian
	Matthew
9:05	Kerrie
	Rachel
9:10	Isaiah
	Dylan
9:15	Lyndze
	Ryan

Civil War Project Assignments:

Matthew	Abiyou	Frederick Douglass
Jordan	Archie	Denmark Vesey
Kazuo	Black	Stonewall Jackson
Kerrie	Bryant	B.K. Bruce
Zyan	Cagnolatti	Sojourner Truth
Isaiah	Cooper	Robert E. Lee - Battle of Antietam or Battle of the Wilderness
Heaven	Cooper	Woman Spy from the South
Khari	Davis	Clara Barton
Michael	Del Toro	Abraham Lincoln - During the Civil War
Dylan	Garcia	Ulysses S. Grant - During the war… not during his presidency
GiGi	Gonzalez	Clara Barton
Christian	Grubb	The Emancipation Proclamation - Info, Lincoln's process and point of view
Rachel	Gurich	Woman Spy from the North
Jalen	McAlpin	Dred Scott
Lyndze	McGinnis	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Julia	Mueller	Mary Surrat
Bethael	Mulugeta	Dorothea Dix
Hector	Navarro	African American Soldier - at the Battle of Appomattox
Josue	Pedroza	Sherman's March, from a foot soldier's point of view
Chloe	Peters	Sojourner Truth
Sarah	Reed-King	A reporter who covered the Gettysburg Address and information about the speech
Ryan	Robertson	William Tecumsah Sherman
Joshua	Umeh	Nat Turner
Angela	Wade	Harriet Tubman
Mackenzie	Williams	John Wilkes Booth
Tayte	Williams	Native American Soldier

Civil War Project

Oral Report Due: Monday, 6/11

Directions:

            In this assignment, you will be researching important people from the 1850's through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Your job is to find the reason why each person is important to the Civil War Era.  Students will choose their Civil War Era persona in class (they will draw out of a hat).

*Do not just copy from the Internet. You must write an autobiographical piece in your own words about your important person. If you do not know what something means, look it up, or don't write it. You will be presenting your research as a “living museum,” an oral presentation given in first person autobiographical form.

Report necessities:

1. A picture of the person you researched.
2. Bibliography page with sources used to find the information used in oral presentation.

Oral Presentation: 

        

          For this part of the project, you need to become the character that you have selected, complete with costume and props.   You are to use your information that you have gathered to write a two minute speech that is written as though you are speaking as the character you are depicting.  
      Be sure that you use factual information to complete the oral presentation. The presentation can be written on index cards to help you organize your thoughts, but it must be “mostly” memorized prior to your oral report.

1. What is your name and what is your family background?
2. What city and state are you from?
3. What is your position on the war?  Are you for the North or the South?  Why?
4. What work are you doing in the Civil War?  Explain your job or work. How was it important to the war effort?
5. What tools do you use?  How do they make your job easier?
6. Who are your friends or allies?  How do they help you?
7. Did you work closely with any other group or persons in the war?
8. Write what you have learned about the person’s early years.
9. 1. Where did this person grow up?
   2. How did these childhood experiences influence the person’s achievements as an adult?
10. What were this person’s main accomplishments?
1. What factors influenced this person’s achievements?
2. What influence did this person have on the Civil War Era?
3. What is your opinion of this person’s life and accomplishments?
How has this person made an impact on others' lives?Quotes and interesting information about the person.          

What is a prop?  You must have an item that your character would have used during the war to enhance your oral presentation. For example, as a drummer boy, you would have a drum, or as Abraham Lincoln, you might have a book since he loved reading, or a scroll with the Emancipation Proclamation on it.  After researching, you may get some good ideas about what your character would have used.

Expectations: There is a rubric for the oral presentation and written speech (which will be given to the students this week). The criteria and the expectations are clear.  Have fun with this and learn a lot.  You are becoming an expert on your role. 

Civil War Websites:

Below are several Civil War websites that I have found to be great for research. Have fun exploring.

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/civwar.html

http://www.americancivilwar.com/statepic/alpha.html

http://americancivilwar.com

http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/contents.htm

http://www.civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm

www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/

http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm

www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/

  Braxton Bragg

Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 � September 27, 1876) was a career U.S. Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War..http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  Civil War Leaders This site provides biographies of many of the leaders in the Civil War, both Northern and Southern.http: //library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/people...

  Civil War Women The sites focuses on material that reflects women's lives and experiences during the Civil War. Links to primary sources on the Internet that are directly related to women and the Civil War.http: //scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

  David Glasgow Farragut This site provides information about David Glasgow Farraguthttp: //us-civilwar.com/farragut.htm

  Death of General Stonewall Jackson Death and Funeral of General Stonewall Jackson. A Civil War Resource from the VMI Archives.http: //vmi.edu/~archtml/cwjacksn.html

  First New York Dragoons 19th Cavalry This regiment was organized in the summer of 1862 at Portage, as the 130th infantry.http: //americancivilwar.com/north/new_york_dragoon...

  Frederick Douglass Originally named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, Douglass was one of the most eminent human-rights leaders of the 19th century.http: //us-civilwar.com/douglass.htm

  Frederick Douglass African-American Civil War Soldiers Frederick Douglass recruited over one hundred free blacks from upstate New York for the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts.http: //americancivilwar.com/colored/frederick_doug...

  General John B. Hood American Civil War Confederate General John Hood was a hero at the Battle of Chickamauga.http: //americancivilwar.com/south/hood.html

  General Robert E. Lee American Civil War Confederate General Confederate general, born in Stratford, VA.http: //americancivilwar.com/south/lee.html

  George Brinton McClellan 1826-85, Union general in the American Civil Warhttp: //us-civilwar.com/mcclellan.htm

  George Edward Pickett Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War, known for Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.http: //us-civilwar.com/pickett.htm

  George Gordon Meade George G. Meade was one of the most competent of the Civil War's Union generals.http: //us-civilwar.com/meade.htm

  Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher was a schoolteacher and writer in Hartford.http: //us-civilwar.com/stowe.htm

  Harriet Tubman Runaway slave Harriet Tubman was famous in the North before the Civil War for her work on the Underground Railroad.http: //us-civilwar.com/tubman.htm

  Harriet Tubman The life of Harriet Tubman and her role in the underground railroad.http: //nyhistory.com/harriettubman/index.htm

  Heinrich Hartmann Wirz This site provides information about Heinrich Hartmann Wirz.http: //us-civilwar.com/wirz.htm

  J.E.B. Stuart
James Ewell Brown Stuart (February 6, 1833 - May 12, 1864) was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general during the American Civil Warhttp: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  JEB Stuart James Ewell Brown Stuart - Confederate cavalry officer whose reports of enemy troop movements were of particular value to the Southern command during the American Civil War.http: //us-civilwar.com/jeb.htm

  James Longstreet
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 - January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost generals of the American Civil Warhttp: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  Jefferson Davis 1808 - 89, American statesman, President of the Southern Confederacy.http: //us-civilwar.com/davis.htm

  Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808-December 6, 1889) was an American soldier and politician. He served in the U.S. Congress..http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

Letters From the Civil War A compilation of letters from soldiers, sailors,, nurses, poliiticans,ministers and journalists, from newspapers of the cities and towns of Massachusetts April 1861 to December 1865.http: //letterscivilwar.com/

  List of people associated with the American Civil War
This is a list of people associated with the American Civil War.http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  Major General Rutherford B. Hayes Citizen Soldier Major General Rutherford B. Hayes Citizen Soldier.http: //americancivilwar.com/hayes.html

  Mary Todd Lincoln Information about Mary Todd Lincoln.http: //us-civilwar.com/mary.htm

  Mathew B. Brady One of the best-known 19th-century American photographers, Mathew B. Brady, is recognized for his portraits of politicians and for his photographs of the American Civil War.http: //us-civilwar.com/brady.htm

  Maxcy Gregg One of the Confedracy's most intelligent and cultured men.http: //us-civilwar.com/mgregg.htm

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 - October 29, 1877), was a Confederate general and perhaps the American Civil War's most highly regarded cavalry and guerrilla leaderhttp: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  Oliver Otis Howard At the outset of the Civil War, Howard, an abolitionist, was made a colonel.http: //us-civilwar.com/howard.htm

  Robert Edward Lee General in chief of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War.http: //us-civilwar.com/lee.htm

  Robert Gould Shaw Information about Robert Gould Shaw...http: //us-civilwar.com/shaw.htm

  Stephen Dodson Ramseur He began his meteoric rise through the Confederate ranks as a first lieutenant in the artillery.http: //us-civilwar.com/ramseur.htm

  Stonewall Jackson Information about Stonewall Jackson.http: //us-civilwar.com/jackson.htm

  Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824-May 10, 1863) was an American teacher and soldier. He became a famous Confederate general during the American Civil War..http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  U. S. Grant 1822-85, commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States,http: //us-civilwar.com/grant.htm

  Ulysses S. Grant This site provides a biography and account of Grant's feats during the American Civil Warhttp: //library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/people...

  Ulysses S. Grant Civil War hero American President Ulysses S. Grant Civil War hero American President Born in 1822.http: //americancivilwar.com/north/grant.html

  Varina Howell Davis First Lady of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va.http: //us-civilwar.com/varina.htm

  William Mahone
William Mahone (December 1, 1826 - October 8, 1895), was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress..http: //academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php...

  William T. Sherman 1820-91, Union general in the American Civil War.http: //us-civilwar.com/sherman.htm

  Women Civil War This site focuses on the Women soldiers in the Civil War. Men were not the only ones to fight that war. Women bore arms and charged into battle, too. Like the men, there were women who lived in camp, suffered in prisons, and died for their respective causes.http: //archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993...

  Women in the Civil War A history of women in the military from the Revolutionary War to present day. Information about sexual harassment issues, current women veterans issues, and extensive information for military women, past and present.http: //userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html

  eHistory.com - People eHistory.com's US Civil War - IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF THE CIVIL WAR.http: //ehistory.com/uscw/features/people/list....

Civil War Women:

Susan B.  Anthony

Clara Barton

Dorothea Dix

Emma Edmonds

Mary Todd Lincoln

Debra Sampson

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

Dr. Mary  Walker

Civil War Men:

John Quincy Adams

John Wilkes Booth

Matthew Brady

John Brown

Henry Clay

Jefferson  Davis

Stephen Douglas

Frederick  Douglass

William Lloyd Garrison

Ulysses S. Grant

“Stonewall” Jackson

Robert E. Lee

Abe Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

George Pickett

Dred Scott

Robert Gould Shaw

Nat Turner

Denmark  Vesey

Daniel Webster

Theodore Weld

Field Trip Tomorrow!!

Here is some additional information:

Ms. Cindy visited our class today and presented wonderful information!  She brought stuffed species for the students to handle and lots of slides to see.  Have your student tell you all about all the great information!

The day should go something like this... 

9:00 - Bus arrives   

9:15 - We depart 

9:30 - We arrive and visit bathroom get situated... no bathrooms on tour... so everyone MUST go before!

9:45 - Tour begins!  

It is a walking tour, so be sure to bring comfortable tennis shoes that you do not mind if they get dirty and a hat if you want.  We will walk through the wetlands and observe plants and animals in their natural habitat.  Students will also be part of the "restoration project" where they will dig up non-indigenous plants and plant species of plants that belong in the habitat.  

12:30 Tour ends

12:40 Lunch at picnic area - Bring a sacked lunch to eat, there are no "gift or snack" shops.

1:00 - Stay at park/picnic area to play, or head across the street to the beach...maybe bring some flip-flops for the beach time... or a towel to sit on...

2:00  - Depart back to school.

More about Field Trip

Thank you for signing and returning the permission forms so promptly!  Here is the website for Ballona Wetlands where we will be exploring!

Friends of Ballona

Please feel free to explore and find out more on your own.  A docent will be here tomorrow to talk to the fifth grade about the trip!

Things to bring:
Lots of water
Lunch and snacks
Wear P.E. clothes
We will eat lunch there then go to the beach for 30-45 minutes to have some fun and run around.
... Students may want to bring towels to lay on, but students will not be allowed to go into the water past their ankles/calves!!
No Bathing Suits
Students may want to bring a camera, but with the sand, it may be risky.

Thank you!

FIELD TRIP...Good News...Bad News...

Bad News:  For many reasons...that I won't go into, our class was placed on a wait list for a field trip at the Ballona Wetlands... 

Good News:  They called me yesterday because a "double class" turned into a "single class" and they had an opening for us!!! YAY!!  I'm so excited for this opening.  This wonderful local program does a fantastic job in our community and this is a great opportunity for our students.  

So-So News: The opening is next week Thursday, May 10!  I know soooo close.  I will provide more details on Monday, I just wanted to give our parents a heads up for the weekend.

Best,

Mrs. Lennon

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