1. Pretend that your best friend invited you to the movies. You really
want to go, but you promised your grandmother you would
spend the afternoon with her. Write about what you decide to
do.
Friday Donovan
January 18, 2013
Ayanna
Bryan
Kathy Adrianette
Edward Michael Christy
Samira Jose Leon Jeffrey
Emily Leslie
Jessica Alexis Yamilee
Alejandra
Kareena
Ricardo
Diana Lilah
Philicia
Remy Jaileen
Ixza Carlos
Jordan David
3. Reading Into the Future (p. 357)
Talk About It
What kinds of new
technology do you
know about? What
inventions would you
like to see in the future?
Look at the picture and respond in writing.
4. Rotated means "turned around on an axis or
a central point."
A robot is programmed to do the jobs that
a person usually does.
Reversed means "moved in the opposite
direction.
Something that is defective has a flaw or
weakness.
5. A meteor is a piece of rock from space.
Something that is dangling is hanging or
swinging loosely.
Someone who staggered would be said to
have swayed or walked unsteadily.
Tokens are pieces that mark your place on
a game board.
6. Reading Who Says Robots Can't Think? (p. 358)
Analogies
Analogies compare
two pairs of words.
Sometimes analogies
use synonyms, words
that have similar
meanings. For
example broken is to
defective as tidy is to
neat.
7. Evidence Conclusion
Meteors
Meteor interfere with
passing by radio waves,
Earth oven causing Sylvia
doesn't work, to make a
robot staggers strange
and almost request for
falls medals at end
of story
8. Reading Zathura (p. 360)
Genre
Science Fiction tells a
story of imagined
events usually set in
the future and based
on science or
technology.
9. polarity: a pull toward an object or in
a particular direction.
gyroscope: a piece of equipment
with a spinning wheel or ball set in a
frame that helps keep its directions
from changing
malfunctioning: not working properly.
10.
11. Evidence Conclusion
Mr. Budwing
says they will Mr. and Mrs.
be late. Mrs. Budwing are
Budwing says going out for
she will set out dinner.
dinner.
12. Character Trait
mischievous
Danny
snitch
slow
active annoying
sensitive victimized
13. Evidence Conclusion
A Zorgon Zorgon must
pirate is be the name
aboard a of a planet
Zorgon pirate where the
ship. Zorgon pirate
is from.
14. Evidence Conclusion
Walter tells Walter has
Danny not to learned the
play the game is
game. dangerous.
15. Reading Robots Today & Tomorrow (p. 384)
Genre
Newspaper Articles tell
about current events or
trends. They answer the
questions who, what, where,
when, why and how.
A Headline is a short title
about an even or subject
that is designed to grab the
reader's attention. A Byline
tells who wrote the article.
16. If something is mechanical, it is
operated by a machine or is machine
like.
If an action is repetitive, it is done over
and over again.
Something limitless has no bounds or
restrictions.
23. pit
ate
up
reptile
whether
electricity
moo
pretty
Eskimos
24. Analogies
Practice Reading Analogies:
Gold : a goldsmith :: iron : a blacksmith
Cold : ice :: heat : fire
Bird : nest :: rabbit : burrow
Child : mother :: song : singer
Sun : moon :: teacher : pupil
25. Analogies
Click on blank for possible answers.
Ant.
unknown
Syn.
cool
Ant.
then
Ant.
up
Syn.
hard
vegetable
26. Analogies
How to read analogies:
Camel : desert :: walrus : ocean
is to is to
as
Read it:
Camel is to desert as walrus is to ocean
27. Analogies
Click on the blank to reveal the answer.
Let's try one:
ships or boats
Automobiles are to cars as vessels are to ______________.
How are each of these words related?
They are synonyms.
___________________________
28. Analogies
Definition: An analogy is a comparison between two sets of
words or ideas. Each set has a similar relationship.
For example:
"Valuable is to worthless as deep it to shallow."
"Valuable is to worthless", the words are antonyms.
The second part of the analogy is "as deep is to shallow" which are words
that are also antonyms.
29. Midterm Schedule
Reading Tuesday, January 22
Math Wednesday, January 23
Language Thursday, January 24
Religion Friday, January 25
Social Studies Midterm Project
Science Midterm Project
* Due Friday, January 25
34. Project for Social Studies
Write an advertisement to persuade settlers
to come to a new colony in North
America.
Tell where the colony is located, why it was
founded, and what life is like there.
Organize your ideas, and support your
position with evidence.
Typed, double space (font size 12 or less),
two page.
Unit 2 (page 97)
35. Project for Science
Find out about the density of the Dead
Sea. Write a one page story explaining why
swimmers don't sink in it.
Use evidence to support your analysis.
Typed, double space (font size 12 or less),
one page.
36. Homework Summary for Friday January 18, 2013
"No Homework Friday!"
Study for your Reading midterm
Have a great weekend!
