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Grade 5 Week 2 Day 4 At Home Learning ELA Thursday, April 2, 2020

Online Resources: https://www.myngconnect.com/login https://www.imaginelearning.com/ https://www.getepic.com/ https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-3-5.html https://www.storylineonline.net/

Independent Reading- Read for 20 minutes each day

Focus on reading: Non-fiction (article)

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Grade 5 Week 2 Day 4: Scholastic Article: Read the two articles How Pizza conquered America by Anna Starecheski and Sushi Takes Over by Kristen Lewis. Write a response to the first bullet under Continue the Learning Journey. https://storyworks.scholastic.com/issues/2018-19/100118/How-Pizza-Conquered- America.html#On%20Level

Remember, readers think about the main ideas and supporting details when they are reading non-fiction texts.

Grammar – Complete Grammar and Writing PM 2.15

Vocabulary – Games from myngconnect.com

Reading Comprehension – Focus is: Viewpoint. Read The Eagle and the Cactus. Answer the comprehension questions at the bottom of the text.

Writing- Focus on Personal Narrative: Write about a time you had to adjust to a new place or situation. Use the following sentence stems to help you start. The biggest change I ever had was ______I remember when I______One thing that happened to me was______Name Date

Grammar: Grammar and Writing Edit and Proofread Choose the Editing and Proofreading Marks you need to correct the passage. Look for the following: • correct placement of commas Editing and Proofreading Marks • correct use of introductory Add. elements Take out. • correct use of different sentence types Move to here. Add comma. Add period.

The Young Man and the Sun: An Island Legend

The young man had work to do, but the sun was setting. He ? couldn’t work in the dark could he. If the sun moved more slowly he would have more time for his tasks. He asked his mother for help.

“Mother I need a rope to catch the sun and make him slow down.”

His mother said, “Yes I’ll help. Cut some of my hair. Because it is strong it won’t burn in the sun’s heat.” He made a long rope from her hair.

The next morning he threw the rope around the sun. The sun pleaded,

“Young man release me won’t you?” But the young man held fast.

He said, “Sun slow down so we can do our work!” The sun agreed.

From that day on it moved more slowly for six months of the year.

The Eagle and the Cactus This text is adapted from an original work of the Core Knowledge Foundation.

Between the years of 1325 and 1521 CE, a great civilization arose and thrived. They were the Aztec people, who lived in what is today central Mexico.

According to legend, the Aztec were once a nomadic tribe. They wandered the land, setting up temporary homes here and there, fighting off attackers, and surviving on snakes and lizards. The legend says that one day, the god of the sun spoke to the people. The god told the Aztec people to look for a sign-an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus. In legend, the Aztec built their capital on the spot On the spot where the eagle perched, the Aztec where they saw an eagle perched on a cactus while holding a snake in its beak. were to build a great city.

The legend goes on to describe how the Aztec finally received the sign the god had told them about. The eagle appeared on a swampy island in Lake Texcoco (/tesh*koh*koh/). On that day, the Aztec's wandering ended. They settled down and began building a city. The Aztec people called their new home Tenochtitlán (/tay*noch*tee*tlahn/), which means "the place of the prickly pear." Even today the eagle and serpent are shown on the flag of Mexico.

ReadWorks.org · © 2017 ReadWorks®, Inc. All rights reserved.This article is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ The Eagle and the Cactus - Comprehension Questions

Name: ______Date: ______1. What sign did the god of the sun tell the Aztec people to look for?

A. a prickly cactus standing alone on a hill B. a large cluster of snakes and lizards in the desert C. an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus D. a swampy island in Lake Texcoco

2. What does this text describe?

A. This text describes the reason the Aztec people named their new home Tenochtitlán, or "the place of the prickly pear." B. This text describes the way an eagle and serpent are displayed on the flag of Mexico. C. This text describes the reason the Aztec people transitioned from being a nomadic tribe to being a great civilization. D. This text describes the types of food Aztec people ate when they were nomads and the types of food they ate after settling down.

3. The Aztec were once a nomadic tribe.

What evidence from the text supports this statement?

A. The Aztec people called their new home Tenochtitlán (/tay*noch*tee*tlahn/), which means "the place of the prickly pear." B. The Aztec wandered the land, setting up temporary homes here and there, fighting off attackers, and surviving on snakes and lizards. C. Between the years of 1325 and 1521 CE, a great civilization arose and thrived. They were the Aztec people, who lived in what is today central Mexico. D. The legend goes on to describe how the Aztec finally received the sign the god had told them about. The eagle appeared on a swampy island in Lake Texcoco.

4. Read these sentences from the text:

The god told the Aztec people to look for a sign - an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus. On the spot where the eagle perched, the Aztec were to build a great city . . . Even today the eagle and serpent are shown on the flag of Mexico.

Based on this information, what can you conclude about the flag of Mexico?

A. The sign from the Aztec legend influenced the design of the flag of Mexico. B. Mexico copied their flag design from a design that the Aztec used on their flag. C. The flag of Mexico has nothing to do with the Aztec legend. D. The flag was poorly designed because an eagle does not look good next to a serpent.

5. What is the main idea of this text?

A. The Aztec people were originally a tribe of nomads. They wandered the land and set up temporary homes here and there. They fought off attackers and survived on snakes and lizards. They lived like many of the other people during that time. B. The Aztec were once a nomadic tribe. One day, however, the god of the sun told the Aztec people that they were to settle down after seeing a specific sign. When they finally received this sign, the Aztec built a great city around this location. C. The Aztec people called the great civilization that they built Tenochtitlán (/tay*noch*tee*tlahn/), which means "the place of the prickly pear." There was probably a lot of cactus in the area that they decided to settle down. D. From 1325 to 1521 CE the Aztec people built and cultivated a civilization in what is today known as central Mexico. Today the flag of Mexico is decorated with an eagle and a serpent, figures from an Aztec legend.

1. C 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B