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Grade 6 Reading Student At–Home Activity Packet
Printer Warning: This packet is lengthy. Determine whether you want to print both sections, or only print Section 1 or 2. Grade 6 Reading Student At–Home Activity Packet This At–Home Activity packet includes two parts, Section 1 and Section 2, each with approximately 10 lessons in it. We recommend that your student complete one lesson each day. Most lessons can be completed independently. However, there are some lessons that would benefit from the support of an adult. If there is not an adult available to help, don’t worry! Just skip those lessons. Encourage your student to just do the best they can with this content—the most important thing is that they continue to work on their reading! Flip to see the Grade 6 Reading activities included in this packet! © 2020 Curriculum Associates, LLC. All rights reserved. Section 1 Table of Contents Grade 6 Reading Activities in Section 1 Lesson Resource Instructions Answer Key Page 1 Grade 6 Ready • Read the Guided Practice: Answers will vary. 10–11 Language Handbook, Introduction. Sample answers: Lesson 9 • Complete the 1. Wouldn’t it be fun to learn about Varying Sentence Guided Practice. insect colonies? Patterns • Complete the 2. When I looked at the museum map, Independent I noticed a new insect exhibit. Lesson 9 Varying Sentence Patterns Introduction Good writers use a variety of sentence types. They mix short and long sentences, and they find different ways to start sentences. Here are ways to improve your writing: Practice. Use different sentence types: statements, questions, imperatives, and exclamations. Use different sentence structures: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. -
Sea Monsters and Real Environmental Threats: Reconsidering the Famous Osborne, ‘Moha-Moha’, Valhalla, and ‘Soay Beast’ Sightings of Unidentified Marine Objects
IMAGINARY SEA MONSTERS AND REAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS: RECONSIDERING THE FAMOUS OSBORNE, ‘MOHA-MOHA’, VALHALLA, AND ‘SOAY BEAST’ SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED MARINE OBJECTS R. L. FRANCE Dal Ocean Research Group Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University Abstract At one time, largely but not exclusively during the nineteenth century, retellings of encounters with sea monsters were a mainstay of dockside conversations among mariners, press reportage for an audience of fascinated landlubbers, and journal articles published by believing or sceptical natural scientists. Today, to the increasing frustration of cryptozoologists, mainstream biologists and environmental historians have convincingly argued that there is a long history of conflating or misidentifying known sea animals as purported sea monsters. The present paper provides, for the first time, a detailed, diachronic review of competing theories that have been posited to explain four particular encounters with sea monsters, which at the time of the sightings (1877, 1890, 1905, and 1959) had garnered worldwide attention and considerable fame. In so doing, insights are gleaned about the role played by sea monsters in the culture of late-Victorian natural science. Additionally, and most importantly, I offer my own parsimonious explanation that the observed ‘sea monsters’ may have been sea turtles entangled in pre-plastic fishing gear or maritime debris. Environmental history is therefore shown to be a valuable tool for looking backward in order to postulate the length of time that wildlife populations have been subjected to anthropogenic pressure. This is something of contemporary importance, given that scholars are currently involved in deliberations concerning the commencement date of the Anthropocene Era. -
Urban Myths Mythical Cryptids
Ziptales Advanced Library Worksheet 2 Urban Myths Mythical Cryptids ‘What is a myth? It is a story that pretends to be real, but is in fact unbelievable. Like many urban myths it has been passed around (usually by word of mouth), acquiring variations and embellishments as it goes. It is a close cousin of the tall tale. There are mythical stories about almost any aspect of life’. What do we get when urban myths meet the animal kingdom? We find a branch of pseudoscience called cryptozoology. Cryptozoology refers to the study of and search for creatures whose existence has not been proven. These creatures (or crytpids as they are known) appear in myths and legends or alleged sightings. Some examples include: sea serpents, phantom cats, unicorns, bunyips, giant anacondas, yowies and thunderbirds. Some have even been given actual names you may have heard of – do Yeti, Owlman, Mothman, Cyclops, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster sound familiar? Task 1: Choose one of the cryptids from the list above (or perhaps one that you may already know of) and write an informative text identifying the following aspects of this mythical creature: ◊ Description ◊ Features ◊ Location ◊ First Sighting ◊ Subsequent Sightings ◊ Interesting Facts (e.g. how is it used in popular culture? Has it been featured in written or visual texts?) Task 2: Cryptozoologists claim there have been cases where species now accepted by the scientific community were initially considered urban myths. Can you locate any examples of creatures whose existence has now been proven but formerly thought to be cryptids? Extension Activities: • Cryptozoology is called a ‘pseudoscience’ because it relies solely on anecdotes and reported sightings rather than actual evidence. -
Cryptozoologicon: Volume I Online
PYrNA (Free and download) Cryptozoologicon: Volume I Online [PYrNA.ebook] Cryptozoologicon: Volume I Pdf Free John Conway, C. M. Kosemen, Darren Naish ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #506077 in Books Darren Naish C M Kosemen John Conway 2013-11-07Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .26 x 8.50l, .44 #File Name: 1291621539102 pagesCryptozoologicon Volume I | File size: 48.Mb John Conway, C. M. Kosemen, Darren Naish : Cryptozoologicon: Volume I before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Cryptozoologicon: Volume I: 16 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Cryptozoology finally gets the treatment it deservesBy Cameron A. McCormickCryptozoology claims to be a lot of things — normally something along the lines of searching for "hidden" or "unexpected" animals — but effectively it's the art of taking anecdotes and even softer evidence way too seriously. For a practice purportedly focused on discovery, cryptozoology is ironically hyper-conservative and tends to rehash the same old information and hypotheses even if they've been shown to be improbable, wrong or fake. While cryptozoology has been stuck in a purgatory-like existence since the 1960's, people eschewing or unaware of that label have been going around discovering new and sometimes large and exciting species, even when initially starting from soft evidence like anecdotes.Just because cryptozoology is (largely) an unintentionally serious study of mythical creatures doesn't make it worthless. The thing is, lots of the cryptids are really compelling. Some of my favorite monsters are cryptozoological creations. -
Book Section Reprint the STRUGGLE for TROGLODYTES1
The RELICT HOMINOID INQUIRY 6:33-170 (2017) Book Section Reprint THE STRUGGLE FOR TROGLODYTES1 Boris Porshnev "I have no doubt that some fact may appear fantastic and incredible to many of my readers. For example, did anyone believe in the existence of Ethiopians before seeing any? Isn't anything seen for the first time astounding? How many things are thought possible only after they have been achieved?" (Pliny, Natural History of Animals, Vol. VII, 1) INTRODUCTION BERNARD HEUVELMANS Doctor in Zoological Sciences How did I come to study animals, and from the study of animals known to science, how did I go on to that of still undiscovered animals, and finally, more specifically to that of unknown humans? It's a long story. For me, everything started a long time ago, so long ago that I couldn't say exactly when. Of course it happened gradually. Actually – I have said this often – one is born a zoologist, one does not become one. However, for the discipline to which I finally ended up fully devoting myself, it's different: one becomes a cryptozoologist. Let's specify right now that while Cryptozoology is, etymologically, "the science of hidden animals", it is in practice the study and research of animal species whose existence, for lack of a specimen or of sufficient anatomical fragments, has not been officially recognized. I should clarify what I mean when I say "one is born a zoologist. Such a congenital vocation would imply some genetic process, such as that which leads to a lineage of musicians or mathematicians. -
Picking the Vice President
Picking the Vice President Elaine C. Kamarck Brookings Institution Press Washington, D.C. Contents Introduction 4 1 The Balancing Model 6 The Vice Presidency as an “Arranged Marriage” 2 Breaking the Mold 14 From Arranged Marriages to Love Matches 3 The Partnership Model in Action 20 Al Gore Dick Cheney Joe Biden 4 Conclusion 33 Copyright 36 Introduction Throughout history, the vice president has been a pretty forlorn character, not unlike the fictional vice president Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays in the HBO seriesVEEP . In the first episode, Vice President Selina Meyer keeps asking her secretary whether the president has called. He hasn’t. She then walks into a U.S. senator’s office and asks of her old colleague, “What have I been missing here?” Without looking up from her computer, the senator responds, “Power.” Until recently, vice presidents were not very interesting nor was the relationship between presidents and their vice presidents very consequential—and for good reason. Historically, vice presidents have been understudies, have often been disliked or even despised by the president they served, and have been used by political parties, derided by journalists, and ridiculed by the public. The job of vice president has been so peripheral that VPs themselves have even made fun of the office. That’s because from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the last decade of the twentieth century, most vice presidents were chosen to “balance” the ticket. The balance in question could be geographic—a northern presidential candidate like John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts picked a southerner like Lyndon B. -
Is There an Abominable Snowman? Rennie Bere
'I 11 ! ~ i IJ d J 1 i t 6 I' ""--.-.~-"- 1, Right forefoot of Vrsus arctos isabellinus; 2, right hindfoot of V.a, isabellinus; 3. left hindfoot ofPresbytis entellus; 4, right forefoot ofSelenarctos thibetanus; 5, right hind foot of S, thibetanus; 6, left hindfoot of Gorilla gorilla beringei; 7, hypothesised left hindfoot ofyeti; 8, left hindfoot ofHomo sapiens, Drawings by Jeffery McNeely, first published in 'Oryx' Vo/, 12, No, 1, 100 Is there an Abominable Snowman? Rennie Bere Mysterious footprints in the Himalayan snows have been reported at intervals since early in the 19th Century. So have tales of monsters, whether man-like apes or ape-like men is never quite clear. Similar stories are told in many coun tries, though the Himalayan versions do seem to have more substance than most. They are often accompanied by eye-witness accounts which, however, are difficult to substantiate and inclined to be suspect; unsophisticated people like the Sherpas do not easily distinguish direct evidence from hearsay or re ality from myth. There are few recorded European sightings of any relevance but this is not surprising as climbing parties are rarely silent and have other objectives in mind. The position thus is that if the footprints and genuine sightings are not attributable to animals already known to science-and several large mammals occasionally move up to considerable altitudes in the Hima laya and adjacent ranges-the creature concerned must be the Yeti, the term which will be used in"this article. If such an animal exists it must surely be a primate, presumably an ape not a hominid. -
163 Marco Ciardi As a Real Science Fiction Novel, This Essay
book reviews 163 Marco Ciardi Il mistero degli antichi astronauti. Rome: Carocci, 2017, 220 pages, isbn: 978-88-43-08546-0. As a real science fiction novel, this essay begins with a classical “what if?” sce- nario: what if Earth was invaded by a civilization with an advanced knowledge and technology in ancient times? The “theory of the ancient astronauts” was exactly this: the possibility that extraterrestrial entities reached our planet in the past and left evidence of their stay, such as archaeological finds of their coherent historical context or even genetic manipulations of the prehistoric hominids, therefore constituting a direct influence on human evolution. The literature on this topic has been flourishing since the xix century, but the issue is not only a historical one. What about the scientific basis of this “theory”? The answer to this question is actually an enigma: Marco Ciardi tries to solve the puzzle in his book, piecing together the origins of this theme. Ciardi uses scientific and pseudo-scientific books as means to investigate the precincts in which the problem has been addressed, showing how “the theory of the ancient astronauts” has influenced popular texts such as science fiction novels, short stories and comics. The book is structured in three parts: “The context of the mystery”, “The definition of the mystery” and “The diffusion of the mystery”: a chronological as well as logical division that explains when the problem was born, how it consolidated and became a popular subject. In the first part of the book, the author shows how men believed that uni- verse was populated by different creatures since ancient times, while only in the last two centuries this belief became a pre-eminent topic in literature. -
Neanderthal: the Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman by Bernard Heuvelmans, Translated by Paul Leblond, with Afterword by Loren Coleman
Journal of Scientifi c Exploration,Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 604–606, 2016 0892-3310/16 BOOK REVIEW Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman by Bernard Heuvelmans, translated by Paul LeBlond, with Afterword by Loren Coleman. San Antonio, TX: Anomalist Books, 2016. 284 pp. $22.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-1938398612. The story of the Minnesota Iceman, the alleged corpse of an unknown hominid, might be conflated by some today, with a more recent iteration on this theme—the claim by charlatans Rick Dyer and Matt Wheaton to have recovered the corpse of a shot and dispatched Bigfoot and their sophomoric attempt to entomb it in a block of ice. It turned out to be an off-the-shelf Bigfoot costume, laced with roadkill. In fact, there was a second attempt by Dyer to pass off an alleged Bigfoot corpse (what is the adage?—“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice . ”). In the second more notorious incident, Dyer claims to have shot the unfortunate specimen himself outside of Austin, Texas. Eventually, the supposedly taxidermied skin was stuffed and displayed in a crude plywood coffin placed in a garishly decorated trailer, while the skinless corpse itself was reportedly sequestered in a secret lab facility, being examined by unnamed specialists. The resemblance between these tales and the Minnesota Iceman largely ends there, at least as far as the lead-in goes. In 1968, the Iceman incident involved a credentialed and reputable scientist, Bernard Heuvelmans, and a renowned naturalist, Ivan T. Sanderson, who jointly examined Frank Hansen’s exhibit extensively in December 1968. -
State of the Palaeoart
Palaeontologia Electronica http://palaeo-electronica.org State of the Palaeoart Mark P. Witton, Darren Naish, and John Conway The discipline of palaeoart, a branch of natural history art dedicated to the recon- struction of extinct life, is an established and important component of palaeontological science and outreach. For more than 200 years, palaeoartistry has worked closely with palaeontological science and has always been integral to the enduring popularity of prehistoric animals with the public. Indeed, the perceived value or success of such products as popular books, movies, documentaries, and museum installations can often be linked to the quality and panache of its palaeoart more than anything else. For all its significance, the palaeoart industry ment part of this dialogue in the published is often poorly treated by the academic, media and literature, in turn bringing the issues concerned to educational industries associated with it. Many wider attention. We argue that palaeoartistry is standard practises associated with palaeoart pro- both scientifically and culturally significant, and that duction are ethically and legally problematic, stifle improved working practises are required by those its scientific and cultural growth, and have a nega- involved in its production. We hope that our views tive impact on the financial viability of its creators. inspire discussion and changes sorely needed to These issues create a climate that obscures the improve the economy, quality and reputation of the many positive contributions made by palaeoartists palaeoart industry and its contributors. to science and education, while promoting and The historic, scientific and economic funding derivative, inaccurate, and sometimes exe- significance of palaeoart crable artwork. -
Kennedy Assassination Newspaper Collection : a Finding Aid
University of South Florida Scholar Commons Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids and Research Guides for Finding Aids: All Items Manuscript and Special Collections 5-1-1994 Kennedy Assassination Newspaper Collection : A Finding Aid Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections and University Archives. James Anthony Schnur Hugh W. Cunningham Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scua_finding_aid_all Part of the Archival Science Commons Scholar Commons Citation Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections and University Archives.; Schnur, James Anthony; and Cunningham, Hugh W., "Kennedy Assassination Newspaper Collection : A Finding Aid" (1994). Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items. 19. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scua_finding_aid_all/19 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Finding Aids and Research Guides for Manuscript and Special Collections at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Kennedy Assassination Newspaper Collection A Finding Aid by Jim Schnur May 1994 Special Collections Nelson Poynter Memorial Library University of South Florida St. Petersburg 1. Introduction and Provenance In December 1993, Dr. Hugh W. Cunningham, a former professor of journalism at the University of Florida, donated two distinct newspaper collections to the Special Collections room of the USF St. Petersburg library. The bulk of the newspapers document events following the November 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. A second component of the newspapers examine the reaction to Richard M. Nixon's resignation in August 1974. -
Human Origins the Ape-Ancestry Myth
Human Origins the ape-ancestry myth David Pratt February 2004 Part 1 of 3 Contents (Part 1) 1. Darwinian claims and controversies 2. Genetic tales: Adam and Eve (Part 2) 3. Suppressed evidence of human antiquity 4. Giants and wildmen (Part3) 5. Anatomy and origins 6. Theosophy: fallen angels, fallen apes 1. Darwinian claims and controversies According to mainstream science, humans are evolved apes who, as a result of random genetic mutations and environmental pressures, happened to acquire the unique power of selfconsciousness. However, the loud publicity and slick propaganda for the ape-ancestry theory cannot alter the fact that the evidence is scanty and contradictory and open to other interpretations. Anthropologist Richard Leakey has said that ‘If someone went to the trouble of collecting together in one room all the fossil remains so far discovered of our ancestors (and their biological relatives) who lived, say, between five and one million years ago, he would need only a couple of large trestle tables on which to spread them out.’1 Most hominid fossils are fragments of jaws and scraps of skulls but, as palaeontologist Stephen J. Gould once said, ‘they serve as a basis for endless speculation and elaborate storytelling’.2 Beliefs, expectations, and prejudices inevitably play a role in the interpretation of fossils, as do personal rivalries and the desire for fame. More than one palaeoanthropologist has become famous overnight by announcing sensational and extravagant claims after finding some fragmentary remains of a creature he or she believes to be related to man’s origin. But such claims have a habit of being undermined or invalidated by further research and discoveries.