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.

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.”

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?