4th Grade Virtual Learning Day 3 – PDF Version ELA - VIRTUAL LEARNING MONDAY, 02/22 1. Morning Meeting It has been snowing outside and some of you have built a snowman or snowwoman. Even if you have not built a snowman or snowwoman, you are going to pretend that you have. Think about your snowperson as being a character from a story or passage you have read. What characteristics or character traits would your snowperson have if he or she was a character from the story or passage? What would your snowperson look like? How would your snowperson behave or act? Type or write your responses on a piece of paper. Bring your completed essay to school when you return. 2. ELA Spiral Review Complete the attached Case 21. There are 16 questions. Number 16 is a writing prompt. 3. Independent Reading Time Read something of your choice for at least 20 minutes. 4. Reading Response Select a different writing prompt than you selected on your previous Virtual Learning Lesson to respond to after completing your independent reading assignment. If you are reading fiction: Who is your favorite character? Why? If you would like, draw a picture of this character. Predict what you think will happen next. Explain your thinking. Explore how the main character changed (especially in thinking or feeling about or toward someone/something) throughout the story. Make sure to write about the character before the change, what happened to cause the change, and the character after the change? Summarize the chapter you just read. If you are reading nonfiction: List five facts you learned about the topic covered in the book or article. Would you read another book by this author or about this subject matter? Why/why not? 5. P.E. (25 minutes) Be Active! Check out a Go Noodle video or go to https://family.gonoodle.com/ Math - VIRTUAL LEARNING MONDAY, 02/22 6. Math Spiral Review Complete the attached Case 21. There are 15 questions. 7. Math Fluency Practice Practice math fluency for 15 minutes. You can use flashcards, write the multiples for numbers 2-12 on paper, or Splashlearn and https://www.mathplayground.com/grade_4_games.html have free math games. 8. Activity Time (40 minutes) Draw, create art, listen to music, or play your favorite computer game! 2. ELA Spiral Review T.J. has worked all season to pitch for his baseball team, the Pirates. When he finally gets a chance to pitch, every batter hits his pitches, and T.J. begins to doubt himself. Fortunately, T.J.’s grandfather comes to help him out. 1 After the White Sox game, T.J. did not practice his pitch for several days. The Pirates won another game to keep pace with the Cardinals. But T.J. stayed at second base and felt that somehow his dreams of pitching in a real game had disappeared. 2 Finally, one warm evening, T.J. gathered his last bit of hope and dragged out the tattered mattress from the garage. He set it up against the fence, trudged 46 feet, and started throwing baseballs again. 3 A few minutes later, he heard a familiar voice call out, “Hey, what do we have here, a young Rip Sewell?” 4 T.J. turned and saw his grandfather smiling from his wheelchair. 5 “Hi, Grandpa. I was just fooling around,” T.J. answered. 6 “Looks like the old eephus pitch to me,” said Grandpa. 7 T.J. scrunched up his face and asked, “What’s an eephus pitch?” 8 “That was Rip Sewell’s big pitch back in the 1940s. He used to lob it way up there and everybody would try to [hit] it,” said Grandpa Burns. “Did really well for a while, until Ted Williams got a hold of one back in the 1946 All-Star Game. Knocked it clear out of the park.” 9 The older man moved his wheelchair closer. Grandpa Burns was a big baseball fan. T.J. guessed that his grandpa knew just about everything there was to know about baseball. 10 “Did you ever see Rip Sewell pitch?” T.J. asked. 11 “Sure. A couple of times back in the old Polo Grounds,” Grandpa said with a big grin. “That was quite a ballpark. Short left and right fields, but almost 450 feet to center field. Sewell had the Giants hitting fly balls out of center all day.” 12 “Why did he throw the eephus pitch, Grandpa?” 13 “Well,” Grandpa said, stroking his chin and trying to remember, “I think he hurt his foot in a hunting accident, and he couldn’t get enough of a push from his legs to throw hard. So he came up with the eephus pitch.” 14 “Was he any good?” 15 “Good?” Grandpa started. “Sure he was good.” Then Grandpa Burns motioned to the house with his hands and said, “Why don’t you run inside and get your dad’s copy of The Baseball Encyclopedia and we’ll look him up.” 16 T.J. dashed back into the house and returned with a heavy hard-covered book. He handed it to his grandfather who leafed through the pages as T.J. leaned on the arm of his grandfather’s wheelchair. 17 “Let’s see. Settlemire. Severinsen. Seward. Sewell. Truett Banks Sewell. Here we go.” 18 T.J. moved closer to his grandfather and looked over his shoulder to the columns of numbers set below Rip Sewell’s name. 19 “See, he started in 1932,” said Grandpa Burns. “Then I think he got hurt and came back with the eephus pitch in 1939. Won twenty-one games in 1943 and 1944.” 20 “Has anyone tried the eephus pitch since then?” T.J. asked. 21 “Sure they have. No one threw it as often as Sewell, but a couple of pitchers threw it every once in a while. Kept the batter guessing.” 22 “Who threw it, Grandpa?” 23 “Bill Lee of the Red Sox threw it. They used to call him ‘The Spaceman.’ Threw it one too many times though. Lobbed one up to Tony Perez of the Cincinnati Reds in the seventh game of the 1975 World Series, and Perez knocked it out of sight. Sox lost 4-3. Nearly broke my heart.” Grandpa shook his head at the memory. “Steve Hamilton and Dave LaRoche of the Yankees threw it too. Hamilton called it the ‘Folly Floater’ and LaRoche called it ‘La Lob.’” 24 Grandpa pointed at the mattress. “Let’s see you try it, T.J. Show your old Grandpa what you’ve got.” 25 T.J. walked back to the worn patch of backyard that was his pitcher’s mound, wound up, and floated the ball into the air. The ball landed just below the box on the mattress and plopped into the basket. A perfect strike. 26 “Not bad, T.J.,” Grandpa said with a wink of his eye. “Keep practicing. You’ll be a pitcher yet.” Grandpa swung his wheelchair around and rolled across the patio. With a wave of his hand, the old man turned the corner toward home, just a few blocks away. “See you later, Rip,” he called. 27 T.J. turned, wound up again, and threw another perfect strike. “Rip Sewell,” T.J. said softly to himself. Excerpt from T.J.’s Secret Pitch by Fred Bowen. Copyright 1998 by Peachtree Publishers. Item 1 What is the meaning of the word lobbed as it is used in paragraph 23? ○ A blocked ○ B returned ○ C switched ○ D tossed Item 2 Read the sentence from paragraph 21. Kept the batter guessing. What does the author mean by this sentence? ○ A The batter did not know which pitch would be thrown. ○ B The pitcher did not know which pitch was best to use. ○ C The batter wondered when the pitcher would throw the next pitch. ○ D The pitcher wondered if the batter would swing at the next pitch. Item 3 Which two quotations support the inference that T.J. wanted to learn more about Rip Sewell? A “A few minutes later, he heard a familiar voice call out, ‘Hey, what do we have here, a ○ young Rip Sewell?’” (paragraph 3) ○ B “‘That was Rip Sewell’s big pitch back in the 1940s.’” (paragraph 8) C “T.J. guessed that his grandpa knew just about everything there was to know about ○ baseball.” (paragraph 9) ○ D “‘Why did he throw the eephus pitch, Grandpa?’” (paragraph 12) E “‘Why don’t you run inside and get your dad’s copy of The Baseball Encyclopedia and ○ we’ll look him up.’” (paragraph 15) F “T.J. moved closer to his grandfather and looked over his shoulder to the columns of ○ numbers set below Rip Sewell’s name.” (paragraph 18) Item 4 Which quotation from the passage best illustrates what is shown in the image? ○ A “After the White Sox game, T.J. did not practice his pitch for several days.” (paragraph 1) B “He set it up against the fence, trudged 46 feet, and started throwing baseballs again.” ○ (paragraph 2) C “T.J. walked back to the worn patch of backyard that was his pitcher’s mound, wound up, ○ and floated the ball into the air.” (paragraph 25) D “‘Keep practicing. You’ll be a pitcher yet.’ Grandpa swung his wheelchair around and ○ rolled across the patio.” (paragraph 26) Item 5 How do T.J.’s feelings about his pitching ability change from the beginning of the passage to the end? A At the beginning, T.J. is comfortable with his pitching ability, but at the end, he becomes ○ bored.