Essentials - Weeks 13 through 18

Week Thirteen
- Write 3 prgs about your weekend.
- Write 3 prgs about why Tuesday is your favorite day of the week.
- Pg (4-29) White Book # 1-8
- Write 3 prgs about your week in Review.
Week Fourteen
- Animals use thier tails for balance, for wrapping around tree branches, and for swatting away insects. If humans had tails, how might they help us? How might they make our lives more difficult?
- Pg (4-29) White Book # 9-13.
- What if all beds were suspended from the ceiling on ropes? How would you climb into bed? How would you make yoru bed? what would be the good points and bad points about having a bed suspended from the ceiling? 3prgs.
- Pg (4-29) White Book # 14-19.
- In 3prgs, describe how you will someday become famous.
Week Fifteen
- Write 3 prgs about what is on your mind.
- Pg (4-29) White Book # 20-25.
- Plants "eat" by absorbing minerals and nutrients through thier roots. What if humans ate by absorbing food throught thier feet? Describe what a typical meal might be like. 3prgs.
- Pg (5-28) White Book # 1-4.
- Write 3 prgs about your week in Review. Looking back what would you change, why? How can you learn from making the same mistakes twice?
Week Sixteen
- Imagine you have invented a time travel machine. Would it travel to the past, the furture or both? What would it look like? Describe where you would go in this time travel machine and what might happen.
- Pg (5-28) White Book # 5-9.
- Nature provides some wonderful topics for poetry. Many poets have used colorful language to describe a beautiful sunset or the sound of waves crashing on a shore. Try this challenge: create a poem about a very ordinary item or event, such as a table fork or finding gum on your shoe.
- Pg (5-28) White Book # 10-14.
- Write 3prgs about your week in Review.
Week Seventeen
- Imagine that you are the teacher for a day. What plans will you make for the class? What will the class learn by the end of the day? Describe your day. 3prgs.
- Pg (5-28) White Book # 15-19.
- You are trapped in a room. The door is locked, and the window is too high to reach. The room is empty. All you have are a key chain, and ink pen, a belt, and a roll of tape. Describe how you might excape.
- Pg (5-28) White Book # 20-22.
- Pg (5-28) White Book # 23-26.
Week Eighteen
- No BellWork this week. Please have a seat and continue working on your final projects.