Marcelino Conquers Chicago

This is Marce's first view (I guess) from Chicago.

This is Sue a female T Rex skeleton 70 millions years old at The Field Museum in Chicago.

Honouring his nickname, lazybones! (Actually it was a Segway tour)

Food with a view, dinner at Hancock Tower, 95th floor!!

Devil Fish at the Field Natural History Museum

Chicago seen from the Willis Tower.

Glass floor at the Willis Tower Skydeck.

"The Bean" at Millenium Park.

Giant sculptures at Millenium Park

Nik Wallenda crossing from one building to another.

Compare and Contrast Diagram

Homework

Spelling
http://www.spellingcity.com/taking-a-spelling-test.html?listId=498313



Action and Linking Verbs

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/linking_verbs/quiz522.html

Homework

This is the link for the online quiz.
http://www.rudolphacademy.com/quizzes-online/language-arts-quizzes/grammar-quizzes-online/verb-quizzes/linking-verbs-quiz/

Homework Oct. 21

This is the link for the Spelling homework.
Remember to send me the photo from your own school account.

http://www.spellingcity.com/unscramble-letters-to-form-words.html?listId=498313

Spelling Link

http://www.spellingcity.com/taking-a-spelling-test.html?listId=498306

Wednesday's Homework

This is the link for the grammar quiz

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/possessive_nouns/quiz327.html


Don't forget to log into pearson.

Tuesday's Homework

Today you start with Raz-kids!!! Read one book today and only answer the quiz once.


Spelling link

http://www.spellingcity.com/hangmouse-kids-hangman-online.html?listId=498306

Real Life Heroes

This is the hero you must research about:

5th A

1. Diego -Sir Nicholas Winton
2. Manuel - Elizabeth of Bavaria
3. Leo - Irena Sendler
4. Federico - Mahatma Gandhi
5. Regina - Sophia Scholl
6. Antonio - Oskar Schindler
7. Emi - Harriet Tubman
8. Ariel - Malala Yousafzai
9. Mau - Nelson Mandela
10. Delfi - Martin Luther King Jr.
11. Ana Pau - Miep Gies
12. Tomás - Manuel Ramírez Uruchurtu
13. Miranda - Gustav Schroeder
14. Emiliano - Rosa Parks
15. Vic - Hellen Keller
16. Jorge - Ferdinand Duckwitz
17. Matías - Doc Henley (wine to water)
18. Pedro- Mother Theresa
19. Sofi - Razia Jan
20. Santi - Narayanan Krishnan



5th B

1. Marce - Eugene and Minhee Cho
2. Fer B. - Pushpa Basnet (Nepal)
3. Jero - Gilberto Bosques Saldívar
4. Conde - Aki Ra
5. Vale - Rajesh Kumar Sharma
6. Bruno - Wangari Maathai
7. Alec - Peter Benenson
8. Patricio- Jean Michel Cousteau
9. Martín - Paulina Kisielewska
10. Xime H.- Bronislaw Huberman
11. Xime J. - Raoul Wallenberg
12. Patricio L. - Carl Lutz
13. Damian - Harriet Tubman
14. José Ramón - Malala Yousafzai
15. Pamela- Princess Diana
16. Emilio - Jane Goodall
17. Fer S. - Doc Henley (Wine to Water)
18. Santinelli - Miep Gies
19. Juan Pablo - Gilberto Bosques Saldívar
20. Alexa - David Garcelon
21. Zamora- Bill Gates

Videos for Homework

Answer the following questions:

Who was Solly Ganor?
Why were Japanese people important in his life? Give two examples.
Why was he in Dachau, Germany?
Why couldn't he talk about his Holocaust experience for many years?
How did he break the silence?

Thursday's Homework

This is the link to review Spelling

http://www.spellingcity.com/taking-a-spelling-test.html?listId=498302

Wednesday's Homework

This is a link of regular and irregular plural nouns:

http://www.ezschool.com/playgame/Games:_English/Singular-Plural/Singular_To_Plural/Add_s%2C_es%2C_ies%2C_ves%2C_or_irregular%3F/Fill_in_the_Blanks/Set_3


Read here about Francisco Jiménez, author of Inside Out, and write me an
e-mail with your opinion.

Francisco Jiménez was born in 1943 in San Pedro, Tlaquepaque, Mexico, the second of two children in a family that would later number nine. Currently a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University, Jiménez is author of The Circuit and Breaking Through, notable fictionalized memoirs about migrant worker life as seen through the eyes of a boy.

Francisco was four years old when his family first migrated without papers to the San Joaquin Valley of California, hoping to leave behind forever their life of poverty. Instead of the good life they sought, the Jiménez family found years of backbreaking work as migrant workers -- living in tent camps, moving constantly to follow the harvest, and always trying to avoid "La Migra," the immigration authorities.

Young Francisco went to work in the fields at age six. Even though his schooling was sporadic because of the constant moves, he came to realize early that education would be his salvation. But the obstacles were formidable. In schools where only English was spoken, Jiménez remembers, "My first experience in school was very traumatic simply because I couldn't speak, and I couldn't communicate with the teacher, and I couldn't understand what she was saying... It scarred me for life." He failed the first grade, but Jiménez persisted, eventually becoming student body president of his high school and graduating with a 3.7 grade point average. Along the way there were many tough times, including the deportation of the entire family back to Mexico when they were finally discovered. A border patrol officer came to Jiménez's eighth-grade class and took him away. But the family was fortunate to find a way back, this time on a legal footing, when a Japanese sharecropper they had worked with agreed to sponsor them.

A literary epiphany came to Jiménez when he was a sophomore in high school. His English teacher thought he might like to read John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, after she was struck by an autobiographical assignment he turned in. "For the first time I was able to relate my life to something I was reading," recalls Jiménez. "The story of my family as migrant workers was part of the American story, just like the Joad family."

Lyrics for Best Day of My Life

Spelling Homework

This is a review for tomorrow's test


http://www.spellingcity.com/taking-a-spelling-test.html?listId=498263

Homework Wednesday, Oct. 1

Name: ____________________________________________

Common and Proper Nouns
Determine whether each noun is a common noun or a proper noun.

● If the noun is common, write “common noun” on the line.
● If the noun is proper, re-write the noun on the line using correct capitalization.

example: waterfall common noun 

niagara falls Niagara Falls

1. march ___________________ 2. month ___________________

3. day ___________________ 4. tuesday ___________________

5. holiday ___________________ 6. christmas ___________________

7. cereal ___________________ 8. cocoa puffs ___________________

9. dr. cube ___________________ 10. doctor ___________________

11. city ___________________ 12. boston ___________________

13. street ___________________ 14. main street ___________________

15. burger king ___________________ 16. restaurant ___________________

17. slate creek ___________________ 18. creek ___________________

19. dog ___________________ 20. snoopy ________________