HOMEWORK FOR MAY 11 , 2015
SECOND GRADE:
- copy the vocabulary words into reading and social studies notebook.
- Quiz: Social studies on Jury System: hearing the case, reaching a verdict, after the verdict along with vocabulary words; unanimous, defendant, plaintiff, deliberation, jurors.
THIRD GRADE:
-Copy vocabulary words into reading and social studies notebook
- Quiz: reading on vocabulary words (justice, union, tranquility, constitution, posterity, liberty, welfare, defense and Preamble) and reading comprehension.
FOURTH GRADE:
-SS- page 194 #1-4 on looseleaf. Q/A
-Copy the reading and social studies words in the correct notebook
-Quiz on chapter 7, lesson 2 and 3.Including vocabulary words
HOMEWORK FOR MAY 13, 2015
SECOND GRADE:
-Answer the following questions on looseleaf
1. What items are taxed?
2. What is income tax?
THIRD GRADE:
-Read chapters 3-4 and answer questions on looseleaf.
FOURTH GRADE:
-SS- page 199 #1-4 on looseleaf. Q/A
VOCABULARY WORDS
-SECOND GRADE- .
READING
1. central message: lessons about life found in stories.
2. cloth: fabric formed by weaving, felting, etc., from wool, hair, silk, flax, cotton, or other fiber, used for garments, upholstery, and many other items.
3. gobbled:eat (something) hurriedly and noisily
4. theme: the central topic of a text.
SOCIAL STUDIES
1. tax: money paid to the government for a service.
2.federal: of or referring to the national government.
3.toll: a charge or tax paid for using a highway, bridge, or tunnel
4.luxury: of or referring to something expensive that is nice to have but not really needed.
5.imported: brought into a place or country from another pace or country.
6.exported: sent products to another country to sell them there.
7.deductions:amounts that are taken away.
8.poverty line: a stated level of income below which a person is considered to not afford basic necessities.
9.investments: things in which people have put their money, hoping to get more money back.
10. 16th amendment : a change to the law to be able to tax citizens income.
11. income: money someone makes from working.
-THIRD GRADE
READING
1. jolt: push or shake someone or something abruptly
2. bifocals: eyeglasses with two different optic powers
3. Latin: language dating back to 6th century
4. minister: a person authorized though the church to perform functions such as teaching beliefs.
5.publish:to issue (printed or otherwise reproduce textual , graphic or computer software.
6.cobblestone: stones used in the making of early streets.
7.private: belonging to or use of one particular person.
8.Stamp Act: tax places on every printed paper colonist used.
9.parliament: responsible for making laws.
10.Continental Congress: convention of delegates that came together to form the government of the 13 colonies.
SOCIAL STUDIES
1. paddies: a flooded field where rice is grown.
2. porridge: a soft food made by boiling oats, rice, or other grains in milk or water until the mixture is thick.
3.wok:a metal cooking pan with a rounded bottom.
4. hemp: a rough fabric woven from plant fibers.
5.characters:symbols used in a writing system.
6.dam:a wall built across a stream or river to hold back the water.
7. cocoons: the silky case a caterpillar spins to live in before it turns into a moth or butterfly
8. calligraphy: the art of fine handwriting.
9. bronze:a yellowish-brown metal made of copper and tin
10. terracotta: a hard, waterproof clay used in making pottery.
-FOURTH GRADE
READING
1. beckoned:make gesture with hand arm, or head to encourage someone to come nearer or follow.
2. aisle: a pace for walking with rows of seats on both sides or with rows of seat on one side and the wall on the other.
3. concoction:a mixture of various ingredients.
4. dreary:dull, lifeless; depressing
5. beamed: transmit ( a radio signal or broadcast) in a specified location.
6.whisked:to take or move in a particular direction suddenly and quickly.
SOCIAL STUDIES
1. reform:change things for for the better.
2. suffrage: the right to vote.
3. citizen: person born in a country or who has earned the right to become a member of that country by law.
4. abolition: immediate end to slavery.
5. Underground railroad: a group of people who helped enslaved people escape freedom.
6. Susan B. Anthony: abolitionist and women's rights leader.
7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: abolitionist and women's rights leader.
8.secede:withdraw.
9. Confederacy: the government formed by 11 southern states that seceded from the United States.
10. Union: the states that remained in the United States after the Confederacy formed.
11. Civil War: the war in the United States between the Union States of the north and the confederate states of the South.
12. Emancipation Proclamation: the announcement by President Lincoln in 1863 that all enslaves people living in the Confederate states were free.
13. draft: a plan to select people to serve in the military.
