Fourth grade lesson plans for week of December 17-21

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Monday 12/17- Social studies quiz 4
HW: Read the article " Bye Bye Books?" on page 2 of scholastic magazine. Number the lines and answer the following questions using 3 sentence format ( 1 introductory sentence and one sentence per detail, and you need 2 details)
1. Are there benefits in using digital textbooks?
2. What are some of the problems schools are facing in using digital books?


Tuesday 12/18
HW: Read chapter 3 of The Long winter and write a summary on looseleaf.
Copy the reading and social studies vocabulary  words into your notebook.
Those who were  not with Ms.Mason today need to copy only the reading  vocabulary words.
* Those of you who were with Ms.Mason also need to read lesson 3 from chapter 4 (S.S) and answer end of lesson questions #3-5 Q/A in notebook.

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Wednesday 12/19
HW: Social studies homework- TBD

Thursday 12/20- Reading quiz 5


Friday 12/21- Social studies quiz 5



Unit 2 week 5 Social studies vocabulary words
-Tax: money people pay to the government so that it could perform services. ex. police.
-Freedom of press: the right people have to print or tell the news.
-indentured servants: a servant that worked for a certain period of time before they were free. They worked to pay off their boat trip to the colony.
-culture: the way of life of people including their customs, beliefs and languages.
-slavery: the practice of making one person property of another.
- manor: a piece of land that an owner rents in smaller sections to farmers.
- tenant farmers: farmers that rent the small land pieces. They pay the owner by giving them some of what they grow.

Unit 2 week 5 Reading vocabulary words
- Main idea: the most important idea in a text.
- Supporting details: details that support the ideas or theme of the text.
-sloths: slow moving tropical mammals that live in trees.
- vegetation: plant life.
- ecology : environmental science.
- terrain: physical characteristics of the land.
- deforestation: to remove or strip away forest or trees.
- deplete: use up.