Everyday Beauty- Beautiful or Not by Kirsten Anderson

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Book: Beautiful or Not
            Everyday Beauty
Author: Kirsten Anderson
ISBN: 978-0-02-202438-3
            978-0-02-202543-4

Chapter 1: The Perfect Picture

1. What did Carly take a picture of?
2. What was the first thing Carly did when she got home?
3. How did Carly react to her photos once she saw them on the computer?
4. Who plays the drums in Carly’s family?
5. What is Carly’s brother’s name?
6. What did Carly do with her camera once she saw the pictures of the hummingbird on the computer?
7. Did her brother keep her camera?
8. What has Carly always been fascinated with?

Chapter 2: A Tip from a Visitor/ A Visitor

9. Carly and Brad never helped their parents at their place of business.  True or False
10. What type of business did Carly’s family own?
11. Where did tourist go to fish and camp during the summer?
12. In what state was this wildlife refuge located?
13. What was the name of Carly’s town?
14. Was Carla bored living in this area?
15. What type of animals would Carla see?
16. In what city did Carly’s cousins lived?
17. What did Carla wondered in page 9?
18. Where was the young couple heading to?
19. When was the dam built?
20. What did the dam block?
21. What did dam create?
22. Carla discovered a new photographer on this day.  What was the name of the photographer?
23. When was the picture in the magazine taken?

Chapter 3: Learning from the Past/ Carly Learns from the Past

24. Was Carly fascinated with the glamorous pictures that Margaret Bourke-White took?
25. Which series of pictures did Carly find the most interesting?

Chapter 4: The Perfect Picture, Part II/ Carly Tries Something New

26. What were the names of her dogs?
27. Compare and Contrast you and Carly.
28. Compare and Contrast your neighborhood and Carly’s neighborhood.
29. Quote 3 facts
a. _______________________________________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________________________________
c. _______________________________________________________________________________
30. Quote 3 opinions
a. _______________________________________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________________________________
c. _______________________________________________________________________________
31. Write down one event that happened in the story.  In a few sentences write the cause and the effect of the event.

About The History of the Calendar by A.E. Evenson

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Summary: Traces the history of the calendar from ancient times to the sixteenth century when the Gregorian calendar used today came into being.

Comment:  Excellent book for your elementary school child to read.  This is history that isn't covered in school text books.

Book: About The History of the Calendar
Author: A.E. Evenson
ISBN: 0-516-08092-X

Chapter 1: Nature’s Calendars

1. What are natural calendars?
2. How did the farmers tell time long ago?
3. What natural calendar did the farmers have to know when it was time to plant?

Chapter 2: Moon Calendars

4. What do you call when the moon changes shape?
5. How many days does it take for the moon to go through all its phases?
6. What do you call a calendar that is based on the phases of the moon?
7. What was the first day of the month called?
8. What were the names of the months in the lunar calendar?
9. Lunar months were shorter than our months.  True or False
10. Twelve lunar months were greater than a year.  True or False
11. What was the 13th month in the lunar calendar called?

Chapter 3: The Calendar of Julius Caesar

12. Who decided to add the extra month to the lunar calendar?
13. Why, sometimes, wouldn’t the rulers of Rome not add the extra month?
14. Why did some rulers often add extra months?
15. What did adding and not adding the extra month to the lunar calendar cause?
16. How was the calendar when Julius Caesar became ruler of Rome?
17. When was December appearing when Julius Caesar became rule of Rome?
18. What did Julius Caesar do to correct the calendar?
19. How did Julius Caesar correct the calendar?
20. How many days did the year 46 B.C. have?
21. What was this year called?
22. What was accomplished by this action?
23. What calendar did Julius Caesar do away with?
24. What calendar did Julius Caesar start using?
25. What was this calendar based on?
26. What do we call the year that we add an extra day?
27. How many days does February have in a Leap Year?
28. How many days does February have?
29. What did Romans call their solar calendar?
30. What was the name of the month in the lunar calendar Julius Caesar was born?
31. The Romans renamed Quintilis to ____________________.
32. Augustus renamed Sextilis to August.  True or False

Chapter 4: Pope Gregory Changes the Calendar

33. How many days in a year?
34. How many minutes off was the Julian calendar?
35. How many days was the Julian calendar off by the 1500s?
36. What did Pope Gregory XIII do in 1582?
37. The calendar jumped from Thursday, October 4th to Friday, October 15th.  True or False
38. What was this new calendar called?
39. Which country and territory didn’t use the Gregorian calendar?
40. In what year did this country and territory change to the Gregorian calendar?
41. Did the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar agree?
42. By 1745 these calendars were ________ days apart.
43. In the 1740s before American changed to the Gregorian calendar, what did people have to write after the date in order not to be confused with the date?

Chapter 5: How We Got the Week

44. The old Romans divided the months into periods.  What were these periods called?
45. What did they call the first day of the month?
46. How did we get the word calendar?
47. In what continent did the seven-day week get started?
48. How did it get to the western part of the world?
49. When was the seven-day week added to the calendar?
50. Roughly when did Christianity become the official religion of Rome?
51. The seven-day week were named after planets.  What is the name of Sunday in German?
52. What is the name of Sunday in Latin?
53. What is the name of Monday in German?
54. What is the name of Monday in Latin?
55. What is the name of Tuesday in German?
56. What is the name of Tuesday in Latin?
57. What is the name of Wednesday in German?
58. What is the name of Wednesday in Latin?
59. What is the name of Thursday in German?
60. What is the name of Thursday in Latin?
61. What is the name of Friday in German?
62. What is the name of Friday in Latin?
63. What is the name of Saturday in German?
64. What is the name of Saturday in Latin?


Chapter 6: A.D. and B.C.

65. What does A.D. mean?
66. What does it mean in Latin?
67. Who came up with the idea we should count our years from the birth of Christ?
68. What does B.C. mean?

Fighting for Rights by Ann M. Rossi

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Book: Fighting for Rights
Author: Ann M. Rossi
ISBN: 978-0-02-202941-8

Introduction

1. “In the early 1800s women in the United States had few rights.” What types of jobs could they do?
2. What types of jobs couldn’t they do?
3. Could women vote during this time?
4. Did men and women earn the same for the same type of job?
5. When a woman married, who got to keep all her property?
6. Did the wife have control of her money and who decided if she got spending money?
7. Who stayed with the children if they divorced?
8. Which two women played a role in changing the way women should be treated?

Chapter 1: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

9. In what year was Elizabeth Cady born?
10. What did Elizabeth’s father studied?
11. In what field did Elizabeth’s father work?
12. What did Elizabeth’s father let her read at home?
13. How many brothers and sisters did Elizabeth have?
14. Did colleges accept women in the 1830s?
15. What was the name of Elizabeth’s cousin who introduced her to people who wanted to end slavery?
16. Who did her cousin introduce her to?
17. When people got married in the 1840s, what word was included in most wedding vows?
18. What were women expected to do when they married in the 1840s?
19. To what city did the Stanton’s travel to in 1840 for a antislavery meeting?
20. Who did Elizabeth meet in London?
21. The men attending the 1840 antislavery meeting in London planted a seed on their wives.  What was the seed?
22. Lucretia Mott was aQ_________________ minister and a well-known a______________.  She started the P_____________________ F______________________ A____________________________ S_________________________.
23. In what year was the trip to London?
24. In what year was the convention held?
25. How many years had passed between the trip and the convention?
26. Why do you think it took so long to hold their first convention?
27. Compare and contrast yourself to Lucretia Mott or Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
28. What did the women right for their first convention?
29. How many women wrote this document?
30. What was this document about?
31. What was a big idea in this document?
32. Imagine if once you reached 18years old, you couldn’t vote.  Compare and contrast how your life would change and stay the same.
33. Where was the convention held?
34. What was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after?
35. Were the newspapers for or against the goals of the convention?

Chapter 2: Susan B. Anthony

36. What did the Quakers believe in the 1820s?
37. Was this belief rare in the 1820s and why?
38. Susan was born 5 years after Elizabeth.  In what year was Susan born?
39. Susan learned to read by the age of ____________.
40. What did Susan’s father decide to do?
41. In what state did Susan go to boarding school?
42. What did Susan’s father own?
43. What profession did Susan do when she finished school?
44. What was the name of the academy that Susan taught in?
45. What type of group did Susan join?
46. What is a temperance group?
47. What was the Underground Railroad?
48. The slaves that escaped through the Underground Railroad went to the country of ______________________.  Why did they go to this country?
49. Who, was an escaped captive and famous abolitionist, helped people escape using the Underground Railroad?
50. In what year did Susan and Elizabeth meet?
51. How did they meet?
52. Give one fact for chapter 1, write and quote the sentence here:___________________________________________________________________________________
53. Give one opinion for chapter 1, write and quote the sentence here: _________________________________________________________________________________________
54. What event in 1852 changed Susan’s life that made her decide to start a temperance group ran by women?

Chapter 3: Working Together
55. Compare and contrast the two women, Susan and Elizabeth, on page 15.
56. What was the 1854 petition about?
57. What event caused the women’s rights movement to slowdown during the years of 1861 to 1865?
58. In 1863, Elizabeth and Susan helped form a group called the __________________________________________________________________________.  This group collected ____________________________ of people who supported an end to slavery.
59. Why were the signatures important?
60. Why was this amendment important?
61. Disagreement over what issue caused suffragists to form two groups in 1869?
62. What were the names of the two suffrage groups?
63. What was NWSA supporting?
64. Who was not allowed to join NWSA?
65. What was AWSA supporting?
66. If you were living back then, which group would you join and why?
67. In what year were women allowed to vote in 2 states?
68. How many years passed since the disagreement of the two groups (1869) and the two states allowing women to vote?
69. In what year did the two suffrage groups merge?
70. What was the name of this new group?
71. What number was the amendment that gave the women the right to vote?
72. How many states had to ratify it to become law?
73. When was the 19th Amendment passed?
74. In what year did Elizabeth die?
75. In what year did Susan die?
76. How many years after Elizabeth Stanton died, did the 19th Amendment get passed?
77. How many years after Susan B. Anthony died, did the 19th Amendment pass?
78. Who started the League of Women Voters?
79. In what year did she start this?
80. What was her belief in starting this organization?
81. This organization was designed to ____________  ______________________ become educated about political issues.
82. What did the organization encourage women to do?

The Goldsmith's Apprentice by Kirsten Anderson

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Book: The Goldsmith’s Apprentice
Author: Kirsten Anderson
ISBN: 978-0-02-202981-4

Chapter 1: A Glorious Day in Florence

1. Who is the owner of the goldsmith shop?
2. From whose perspective is the story being told?
3. What is the name of Piero’s fellow apprentice?
4. Why was Piero going to Signor Trocciano’s house?
5. How many apprentices did Signor Agnolo have?

Chapter 2: A Promise to Keep

6. Who declared a holiday in the honor of his son’s wedding?
7. What did the people of the town do during this holiday?
8. What did the groom throw at the audience?
9. What did Piero and Benvenuto buy with the coins?
10. What did the two apprentices decide to do after the parade?
11. Who did they encounter while practicing their sketching?
12. Where was Principessa Maria visiting from?

Chapter 3: Working Undercover

13. Who showed up to the shop?
14. What did this person want?
15. Where did the apprentice live?
16. Who caught them working on the brooch that night?
17. How much was Principessa Maria paying Benvenuto?
18. How much of the money was Benvenuto suppose to give Signor Agnolo?
19. How much did he give Piero?

Extreme Weather by Susan Ring

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Book: Extreme Weather
Author: Susan Ring
ISBN: 978-0-02-202544-1

Introduction

1. What do Meteorologists use to forecast the weather?

Chapter 1: Rain

2. What is rain?
3. What is water vapor?
4. What is the atmosphere?
5. What is the lower 6 miles of the atmosphere called?
6. What is a characteristic of the troposphere?
7. How are floods created?
8. What are thunderstorms?
9. How are lightning bolts created?
10. The amount of light produced by a flash of lightning is about the same as _________________________ light bulbs.
11. The lightning flash does not produce head.  True or False
12. The lightning flash is not 5 times hotter than the sun.  True or False
13. What is thunder?
14. What is a supercell?
15. What is the difference between a thunderstorm and a supercell?
16. What is mist?
17. Mist is made up of billions of small droplets of water suspended in the air.  True or False
18. What is fog?
19. What is a monsoon?
20. In which continent do the people write poems, play music, and have festivals that honor monsoons?
21. In which continent is the monsoon seen as a symbol of a mythic five-toed dragon?

Chapter 2: Ice and Snow

22. What is an ice storm?
23. What is sleet?
24. What is the coldest temperature recorded in the United States?
25. Where was this coldest temperature recorded?
26. What are snowflakes?
27. How many sides do snowflakes have?
28. How is a blizzard created?
29. How strong are the winds during a blizzard?
30. If you were walking outside, can you see during a blizzard?
31. What is a whiteout?
32. How many inches of snow does the South Pole get a year?
33. What are hailstones?
34. There’s a region in the U.S. that hailstorms occur often.  What is this region called?
35. What states are included in this region?
36. How long do hailstorms last?
37. What does hail sound like?

Dorothea Lange, The Eye of a Photographer by June Avignone

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Book: Dorothea Lange, The Eye of a Photographer
Author: June Avignone
ISBN: 978-0-02-203058-2

Chapter 1: Looking Closely at the World

1. In what year was Dorothea Lange born?
2. Where was Dorothea Lange born?
3. What happened to Dorothea when she was seven years old?
4. What happened to her right foot?
5. To what city did Dorothea moved to with her mother?
6. What was the name of the university that Lange attended?
7. What was the name of Lange’s professor?

Chapter 2: Portraits by a Young Artist

8. At age 22, Lange moved to ______________________________, California.
9. Who is credited with this quote?  “You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, a part of your body that shares your life with you.  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
10. What was the name of Dorothea’s husband?
11. How many children did they have?
12. What were the boys’ names?
13. “Dixon made his living painting __________________________  ________________________.
14. What happened in 1929?
15. How many people were out of work by 1933?
16. What happened to Lange and Dixon during this period?
17. What was this period known as?
18. What was the wealthy woman who set up the breadline known as?

Chapter 3: Capturing the Great Depression

19. What program was developed by the New Deal program?
20. What was the name of Lange’s second husband?
21. When was the Dust Bowl?
22. What happened during the Dust Bowl?
23. Which U.S. writer wrote about this time period?
24. Lange did not considered herself an activist.  True or False
25. Lange’s work is often called _________________________________  ______________________ because it records a time in history.



Chapter 4: World War II and Beyond

26. What happened on December 7, 1941?
27. What did President Roosevelt do?
28. When did Lange die?

Sleeping Beauty and the Prince of Andequesta by Rebecca Motil

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Book: Sleeping Beauty and the Prince of Andequesta
Author: Rebecca Motil
ISBN: 978-0-02-202897-8

Scene 1: After School

1. Who got the part of Sleeping Beauty in the play?
2. Whose house are they going to celebrate?
3. Who said that Pauline is too busy and never has fun?
4. Who said that Pauline is like Sleeping Beauty?
5. Who had to go to soccer practice?
6. Who thinks Rafael is cool?
7. Who thinks Rafael is a real prince of a guy?

Scene 2: The Soccer Game

8. Who scored a goal in a soccer game?
9. What language is Pauline taking in school?

Scene 3: The Phone Call

10. Who was the man in the suit that handed him the cell phone?
11. Rafael’s father is king of __________________________.
12. Rafael’s father is king of a small island off the coast of what continent?

Scene 4: The Rehearsal

13. Who will now play Sleeping Beauty since Pauline didn’t show up?
14. How long did the group wait for Pauline?

Scene 5: The Next Day

15. At the end, did Pauline forgive Rafael?

A Change of Weather by Kirsten Anderson

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Book: A Change of Weather
Author: Kirsten Anderson
ISBN: 978-0-02-202343-0

Chapter 1: Lonely Town

1. Where do Mark and Alicia live?
2. Their town is located outside of what city?
3. In what state is the town located?
4. Mark and Alicia just moved from ________________________.
5. What were the names of Alicia’s friends in Miami?
6. What was the name of their dog?

Chapter 2: Weather Trouble

7. What was the name of the elementary school they attended?
8. What was the name of Mark’s elementary teacher?
9. What was the name of Alicia’s elementary teacher?
10. What are Mark and Alicia going to do their project on?
11. What were the names of Alicia’s classmates she saw at the library?
12. Why was their mother not able to pick them up at 3pm?

Chapter 3: Making the Best of Things

13. What did Alicia pick up at the picture book section?
14. Who asked Alicia what she was reading?
15. What sports do Alicia and Julie have in common?
16. What did Mark do to help stop the children from crying in the library?

Chapter 4: Library Party

17. Who gave them something to eat?
18. What were they offer to eat as the storm past?
19. As their mother pulled-up to the library, she said “I hope you two weren’t too bored.”

Survival in the Sahara Desert by Kathy Kinsner

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Book: Survival in the Sahara Desert
Author: Kathy Kinsner
ISBN: 978-0-02-202937-1

Introduction

1. Which desert is over 3,500,000 square miles?
2. What desert is about the same size of the United States?
3. Over how many countries does the Sahara Desert stretch?
4. Deserts begin as rocks.  True or False

Chapter 1: Plants: Surviving in a Dry Climate

5. What is the name of the plant that has adapted to survive in the desert?
6. Where do Date Palms grow?
7. What do humans use the fruit from a Date Palm for?
8. What do humans use the seeds from a Date Palm for?
9. What do humans use the wood and leaves for?
10. What do humans use the sap from a Date Palm for?

Chapter 2: Animals: Surviving in Extreme Heat

11. Where do the fennec fox and the jerboa sleep during the day?
12. The fennec fox looks like what type of animal?
13. What is a jerboa?
14. How fast can a jerboa run?
15. How high can a jerboa leap?
16. What is a desert monitor?
17. How long can a desert monitor grow?
18. How far can a desert monitor travel in search for food?
19. Why are desert monitors endanger?
20. What do silver ants have internally that track how many steps they take?
21. How has a camel adapted to the desert?

Chapter 3: People: Surviving in the Desert

22. What is a nomad?
23. Who are the Tuareg?
24. What does Tuareg mean?
25. What are the Tuareg often called?
26. Who is known for their fighting ability and their artwork?
27. What are qanats?

Preserving Unique Places, Our National Parks by Emily Wortman-Wunder

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Book: Preserving Unique Places, Our National Parks
Author: Emily Wortman-Wunder
ISBN: 978-0-02-202829-9

Chapter 1: Badlands National Park

1. In which state is the Badlands National Park located?
2. What color is the earth at the Badlands National Park?
3. Long ago the Badlands resembled what state?
4. What is the most popular activity at the Badlands National Park?
5. What is the name of the Native American nation that lives near the Badlands National Park?

Chapter 2: Death Valley National Park

6. Where is Death Valley located?
7. What nation was living in this land when the European settlers arrived?
8. When did Death Valley become a National Park?
9. A desert is a place that gets less than 10 inches of rain every year.  True or False
10. What is the name of the fish you can find in Death Valley?

Chapter 3: Everglades National Park

11. When were the Everglades created?
12. Can you find pine forests in the Everglades?
13. Can you find a savanna in the Everglades?
14. The marsh in the Everglades is covered with ______________________.
15. Which writer called the sawgrass of the Everglades a “river of Grass”?
16. In what year was the Everglades National Park created?
17. What are the names of the four Native American nations that live in the Everglades?
18. Compare and Contrast the Badlands National Park, Death Valley National Park, and the Everglades National Park.

The Story of San Francisco by Dan Furey

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Book: The Story of San Francisco
Author: Dan Furey
ISBN: 978-0-02-203040-7

Introduction

1. What is San Francisco’s most famous landmark?

Chapter 1: A Land of Riches

2. Who were the first residents of San Francisco?
3. The Ohlone nation was a single nation.  True or False
4. The Ohlone nation was made up of ______ different bands.
5. Did the Ohlone nation have different languages?
6. Did the Ohlone nation have different customs?
7. Did the bands that made up the Ohlone nation live in the same area?
8. What does the word Ohlone mean?
9. What items did the Ohlone use to build small boats?
10. Who was the first explorer to meet the Ohlone?
11. From which country was this explorer?
12. In what year did this explorer arrive to San Francisco?
13. What was this explorer doing when he arrived to San Francisco?
14. The landscape of San Francisco reminded Sir Frances Drake of which place in England?
15. What does Nova Albion mean in Latin?
16. What area did Sir Frances Drake name Nova Albion?
17. Who were the first explorers to settle in San Francisco?
18. In what year did the Spanish settle in San Francisco?
19. What is the name of the church the Spanish built in San Francisco?
20. What else did the Spanish build around the church?
21. The Ohlone forced the Spanish to work for them.  True or False
22. The Spanish forced the Ohlone to work for them.  True or False
23. Mission Dolores was able to survive without the harsh treatments impose to the Ohlone people.  True or False
24. According to the book, “without the Ohlone to raise food and do much of the work, the mission town struggled.  There was talk of closing the outpost.”  True or False
25. Where does the word California come from?
26. From which land did the Russian trappers come from?
27. What was the name of the seaport?
28. What does Yerba Buena stand for in Spanish?
29. Why was it called Yerba Buena?
30. What is a rancho?
31. Who owned the ranchos?
32. How far were some ranchos from each other?
33. By some ranchos being far apart, some began to look like ______________________.

Chapter 2: A Gateway to Gold

34. By 1822 California was part of the U.S.  True or False
35. California joined the United States in 1850.  True or False
36. About how many people lived in Yerba Buena in 1845?
37. About how many people lived in San Francisco by 1850?
38. Yerba Buena’s name was changed to San Francisco in ___________________.
39. What was the name of the company that transported gold, money, and important papers all around the country?
40. What is the symbol of San Francisco?
41. Who designed the electric cable car or trolley?
42. San Francisco became the first major city of the American West.  True or False
43. What were the names of the two African American men who opened a store in San Francisco in 1853?
44. Who became the first African American judge in the United States?
45. Which ethnic group was seen as taking jobs from some Americans?
46. In what year did the government pass a law banning Chinese people to enter the United States?
47. What was this law called?

Chapter 3: A City of Hope

48. In what year did San Francisco suffer a terrible earthquake?
49. For how many days did the fires burn after the earthquake?
50. What percentage of the population lost their home during the earthquake?
51. In what year was the Panama Canal opened?
52. In what year did San Francisco host the World Fair?
53. Who designed the Golden Gate Bridge?
54. How many years did it take to complete the Golden Gate Bridge?

The Three Sisters by Louise Orlando

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Book: The Three Sisters
Author: Louise Orlando
ISBN: 978-0-02-203054-4

Chapter 1: Rose, Poppy, and Lily

1. When does the story take place?
2. How many daughters did the lady have?
3. Where did the family live?
4. What were the names of the daughters?
5. What was Rose’s job?
6. Where did Poppy and Lily work?
7. Who baked bread?
8. What did the girls do after finishing their chores?
9. What did they do with the flowers they collected?
10. What did Rose want to become as an adult?
11. What did Poppy want to become as an adult?
12. What did Lily want to do as an adult?
13. Who was the oldest?
14. Who was the middle child?
15. Who was the youngest sister?
16. How did Rose disappear?
17. Did Rose return home that evening?
18. Who searched for Rose the net morning?
19. What caught Poppy’s eyes?
20. Did Poppy’s mother react different when she disappeared compared to Rose’s disappearance?
21. What was Lily’s younger brother’s name?
22. Lily disappeared by smelling a flower by the edge of a small lake.  True or False

Chapter 2: Francis

23. Did the girls’ mother go looking for her daughters?
24. Did the girls’ mother find them?
25. Did Francis go out looking for his sisters?
26. Who did Francis run into when looking for his sisters?
27. What items did the uncle give the brothers?
28. Were the items powerful?
29. What would the boots do?
30. What powers did the hat have?
31. What would the key do?
32. Who wanted to keep all the presents to himself?
33. Did Francis steal the 3 items from the brothers?



Chapter 3: The Feather, The Golden Bridle, and The Troll

34. Where did Francis go after he said, “Boots, take me to my eldest sister!”?
35. Who did Francis see when he knocked on the door?
36. What happened to the owner of the stone mansion on the high mountain peak?
37. What happened to the troll as he tried to break into the house?
38. What was the name of the Eagle?
39. What happened when Elliot said to Francis to take his sister far away?
40. What did Elliot say you have to do in order to defeat the troll?
41. Where did Francis find Poppy?
42. What was the name of the young man that saved Poppy from the troll?
43. What did Elliot, the eagle, give and tell Francis to say if he ever needed help?
44. What did Thomas, the stallion, give and tell Francis to say if he ever needed help?
45. Where did Francis find Lily?
46. The cave was guarded by a troll and he was forcing Lily to do what before he gave her a little bit of food?

Chapter 4: The Scissors

47. What did Francis tell Lily to say to the troll?
48. What conditions did Lily say to the troll in order for him to marry her?
49. Why won’t the troll cut his hair?
50. Only one pair of scissors can cut the troll’s hair and where are those scissors located?
51. How did Francis get to the highest mountain?
52. Who did Francis ask for help?
53. Who helped Elliot find the jeweled box?
54. What slithered out of the jeweled box?
55. Who did Francis ask for help?
56. Where did they find the snake?
57. What happened to the troll as Lily cut his hair?
58. What happened to Elliot and Thomas once the troll got his hair cut?

Changing Earth by Barbara M. Linde

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Book: Changing Earth
Author: Barbara M. Linde
ISBN: 978-0-02-202476-5

Chapter 1: Shifts in the Land

1. How do earthquakes occur?
2. What is a volcano?
3. What flows out of a volcano?
4. What is a glacier?
5. How old are glaciers?
6. Glaciers move downward as they grow.  True or False
7. What forms from hollowed-out bowls in the ground from melted glaciers?
8. What is a landslide?
9. What is deposition?

Chapter 2: Changes Due to Water

10. How much of the Earth’s surface is covered with water?
11. What is the water cycle?
12. What is a wave?
13. What is a tsunami?

Chapter 3: Changes Due to Weather

14. How many major hurricanes were recorded in 2004?
15. What is a hurricane?
16. When is hurricane season?
17. What is a tornado?
18. When is tornado season?
19. What is weathering?
20. What is chemical weathering?

Towns of the West, from Boom to Bust by Dan Furey

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Book: Towns of the West, from Boom to Bust
Author: Dan Furey
ISBN: 978-0-02-203099-5

Introduction

1. In which part of the country did most of the population live in the 1800s?
2. What was the name of the land transaction in which the U.S. purchased land from France?

Chapter 1: The Boom Begins

3. In 1849, so many people went west to California to search for gold that they became known as ______________________.
4. What is a prospector?
5. Not everyone was looking for gold in the West.  Many people hoped to strike it rich by opening stores and selling supplies to miners.  True or False
6. What is a boomtown?
7. Supplies were scarce in the Old West.  A shovel might cost $_________.  A box of sleep in might cost $_____________.  A glass of water could cost $___________.

Chapter 2: Life in the Boomtowns

8. The Old West had immigrants from all over _________________, _____________________, and ______________________________.
9. California was a free state or slave state?
10. Many women moved west during this time period.  True or False
11. What types of jobs did women have who moved west?
12. During this time period, can women own property in the East Coast?
13. Did women have more rights in California?
14. What were women able to do with these rights?
15. What happened to Mexican ranchers and Native Americans when squatters settled on their lands?
16. Were Native Americans citizens of the United States?

Chapter 3: From Boom to Bust
17. Was it dangerous to live in the West?
18. What is a claim jumper?
19. Did all boomtowns have a sheriff?
20. For how many people was a sheriff responsible?
21. What was the only thing the townspeople had to fight fires?
22. What did the town’s people form when a fire got started?
23. What is a ghost town?
24. Which city is an example of a modern day boomtown?

My Diary from Here to There by Amada Irma Perez

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Book Title: California Treasures, 4th Grade Edition  ISBN: 978-0-02-199970-5

     The first story in Unit 1 is "My Diary from Here to There," by Amada Irma Perez.

Pages 13-19

1. How many brothers and sisters does the main character have?

2. How many brothers does she have?

3. How many sisters does she have?

4. In what city do they live?

5. In what country is this city located?

6. What did the main character hear her parents talking about?

7. Is the main character worried about leaving her city?

8. To what city does her family plan to move to?

9. In what country is this city located?

10. What is the name of her friend?

11. From your perspective, why do you think her brothers are excited to be moving to the states?

12. Michi and the main character braided each other’s hair, why?

13. To whose house will the family leave in two weeks?

14. Where does this person live?

15. What will the father do as the family stays with their grandfather?

16. Why do you think the father had to borrow a car for this trip?

17. Why did the family have to sell all their belongings?

18. What is the character worried about when she arrives to Los Angeles?

19. What is the name of the main character?

20. Her father said he was born in _____________________.  When he was __________ years old his parents moved to ____________________.

Name: _________________________________________________            Date: ________________

Pages 20-29

1. What are giant saguaros?

2. At what time did they arrived to Mexicali?

3. Who greeted them?

4. They had a feast of ___________________, ______________, ____________________, and ______________________________________________________.

5. What did Nana mean by saying Papa is a U.S. citizen?

6. What do you think is a green card?

7. Why do you think is a green card?

8. Why do you think the rest of the family needs a green card?

9. In what city/town did Amada’s father worked in picking grapes and strawberries?

10. What was the name of the man that worked in the same fields with her father?

11. Do you think Amada’s father has a high school diploma?

12. Do you think Amada’s father has a college degree?

13. Do you think Amada’s father knows English?

14. The family lived in _____________ different houses while their papa was in California.

15. Which aunt took the family in after Nana?

16. What was the name of the border city where they crossed?

17. How many shoes did Mario have when they crossed the border?

18. How did he lose his shoe?

19. In what city in California did they move to?

20. Who did Amada write to when she arrived to East Los Angeles?