Our first book this year will be The First Voyage to America by Christopher Columbus. It is a re-writing of the original log that was kept by Columbus on his first trip to "discover America." Actually, he thought the whole voyage that he and his sailors and admirals were headed to India for spices and silk. He even mentions another sailor wanted to continue on to Japan from India once they would arrive. What a shock it must have been to realize that they had landed somewhere totally unexpected!
I will give you your book on Monday, with some questions that will guide your reading AND help you pass your reading quizzes. Below are your reading assignments for this coming week and Monday, August 30. Your spelling words and vocabulary are also included in this post.
Parents, your child will be bringing home a Reading Log for you to sign each day. Each child needs to be reading at least 30 minutes every night, and on Saturday and Sunday, too--that's 210 minutes every week = 3 1/2 hours a week. Please sign this log on Thursday night so that it can be brought back to me on Friday for a grade that will be based on how many minutes a week he or she has spent reading AT HOME. If the assignment that I give them doesn't take that long, then your child can supplement his or her reading with a library book or a book from home. Thank you!
Happy sailing--I mean, reading!
READING ASSIGNMENTS:
To be read by Wednesday, August 25: pages 13-27
To be read by Thursday, August 26: pages 28-43
To be read by Monday, August 30: pages 50-65 (we are going to try and read pages 44-49 in class on Friday.)
SPELLING and VOCABULARY: Test on Friday, August 27 during Lit class
1. testament (be able to also write the definition)
2. Gospel
3. character
4. Christopher Columbus
5. league (be able to also write the definition)
6. caravel (be able to also write the definition)
7. admiral
8. uncharted (be able to write the definition)
9. reckoned (be able to write the definition)
10. amplitude (be able to also write the definition)
11. commencement (be able to also write the definition)
12. apparently
