Week 4

Hello, ELA! Daily Review AUGUST

Name ___________________________ Week of _________________________

meaningful Monday Date: _________

I know… Life is hard on Monday, but it’s time to awaken your brain! Let’s make today a Meaningful Monday!

Meg and her mother have a Friday night family When people go camping, they may feel like they
tradition of making homemade pizza together. are having a primitive experience. A big difference
Mrs. Murry has a special family recipe for the pizza between a planned camping trip and early humans
sauce, slow cooking it for hours. Meg is in charge is that when you go camping, you probably plan
of the pizza dough and the toppings. Of all the food you will bring and how you will prepare it.
toppings, cheese is their favorite. After making the Early humans were hunters and gatherers. For food,
crust, she spreads the sauce and sprinkles a liberal they hunted animals and gathered plants. If there
amount of cheese, followed by pepperoni. When was no food available in that area, they moved on.
the pizza is finished, they sit on the couch and Hunter-gatherers were nomads and migrated from
watch a movie, while savoring their delicious pie. place to place. They lived in small bands, which
included several families. The men hunted or fished,
while the women gathered berries, nuts, fruits, and
What does the word liberal mean as used above?
other plants. The children also worked to be sure
they had what they needed.
a. open to new concepts or ideas
b. broadly understood; not exact
What does the word nomad mean?
c. used in generous amounts
d. a person of liberal views
a. a person who moves from place to place
b. the act of moving place to place
Synonyms or Antonyms? c. a primitive person
1. burden, inconvenience_____________ d. a person who hunts and gathers food
2. optimist, pessimist ________________
3. prosper, flourish ______________ Which word means the opposite of primitive?
4. former, latter ___________________ a. ancient c. migrate
5. encounter, meet ________________ b. modern d. prehistoric

text structure Tuesday

Yay! You came back to school today! Give yourself a pat on the back simply for being here. J
Date:__________

Pizza has a long history of how it became one the world's favorite foods. An independent kingdom known
as Naples was famous for its large population of poor workers, called lazzarone. These people needed an
inexpensive food that could be consumed quickly. Street vendors and restaurants began filling this need
by providing a flatbread covered with cheese, tomatoes, oil, and other toppings. It was not considered a
fancy dish. In 1851, Naples became part of Italy. During a visit in 1889, King Umberto I and Queen
Margherita visited Naples and tried a variety of pizzas. Queen Margherita's favorite type of pizza is what
we now know as Margherita pizza, with white cheese, red tomatoes, and green basil.

Later in the 1900s, Italian immigrants began baking their tasty pies in the United States. Many Neapolitans,
people from Naples, moved to the United States for factory jobs during this time period. In 1905, the first
pizzeria was G. Lombardi’s on Spring Street in Manhattan, New York. The popularity of pizza continued to
grow and finally made its way back to Italy.

Which graphic organizer best fits with the structure of this text?
1 2 3 C
A B cause effect C problem solution

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wordy Wednesday
Guess what day it is?
Wordy Wednesday! Date:__________
Time to have some fun with words!

Superb Spelling Latin Roots

Choose the correct spelling of the word in each column. Color code the Latin root on the left to the meaning on the right.

ped feel
o preevius o furius o serious
o previus o furious o serius sens build
o prevous o furiuos o sirius
o previous o fureus o sirious struct foot

throwback Thursday It’s Throwback Thursday!

Let's review grammar skills! Date:__________

We or Us? I or Me?
Use we if the noun is the subject of the sentence. Subject Pronoun I watched the movie Ant-Man.
Use us if the noun is the object of a verb or preposition. used as the subject of the sentence

Object Pronoun My mother took me to see the

used as the direct object of a verb
new Ant-Man movie.
1 Percy Jackson has inspired we, us to follow or as the object of a preposition

what we believe is right.

1 Would you like to come with I, me to the
movies next week?
2 We, Us have truly enjoyed learning about
Greek mythology. I, me
2 am not sure what time the movie
starts.
3 My mom thinks we, us should read The Maze
Runner series next.
3 My sister and I, me have seen all of the
Marvel movies.
4 She has already ordered the book series
for we, us . I, me
4 have to get popcorn and Twizzlers!

figurative Friday
Figurative language uses words
and expression to have a greater Date:__________
impact on the reader.

A Lazy Day by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Alliteration is a type of figurative language in
which the author uses the same beginning
The trees bend down along the stream,
Where anchored swings my tiny boat. sounds in connected words. For example,
The day is one to drowse and dream Figurative Friday.
And list the thrush’s throttling note.
When music from his bosom bleeds
Among the river’s rustling reeds. Write examples of alliteration the poet used
No ripple stirs the placid pool, in this poem.
When my adventurous line is cast,
A truce to sport, while clear and cool,
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The mirrored clouds slide softly past.

The sky gives back a blue divine, ________________________________________
And all the world’s wide wealth is mine.
A pickerel leaps, a bow of light,
The minnows shine from side to side. ________________________________________
The first faint breeze comes up the tide—
I pause with half uplifted oar,
________________________________________
While night drifts down to claim the shore.