Moongame by Frank Asch

Book: Moongame
Author: Frank Asch
ISBN: 978-068983518-6
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1. Little Bird showed Bear how to play hid go seek.
2. Answers will vary
3. Bear asked the Moon to play hid go seek.
4. Bear hid inside anold hollow tree.
5. Yes, the Moon found Bear.
6. The Moon hide behind a big cloud.
7. At first, Bear thought he found the moon behind some rocks.
8. The second place Bear thought the Moon was hiding was inside someone's house.
9. Cheese was inside the house and Bear mistook the cheese for the moon.
10. Bear mistook a balloon with the moon hiding in a tree.
11. Bear asked Little Bird for help.
12. The animals in the forest asked for help.
13. Bear said, "Okay, Moon, I give up.  You win!"
14. The Moon was hiding behind a big cloud.

Tricycle by Elisa Amada and Alfonso Ruano

Book: Tricycle
Author: Elisa Amado, Alfonso Ruano
ISBN: 978-0-88899-614-5
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1. Clementina is the name of the dog.
2. Answers will vary
3. The girl's house, her dog, and Timoteo.
4. The shacks where Rosario, Chepe, and Juanita live.
5. She sees the girls' mother making tortillas in the doorway.
6. The girl's parents buy tortillas from Juanita's mom.
7. The girl likes to hide in the hole in the hedge.
8. The girl left her tricycle.
9. It feels very prickly to climb into the hedge.
10. The hedge smells dusty and the air is thick and dark.
11. Rosario hides in the hole of the hedge with the girl.
12. The name of the volcano is Volcan de Fuego.
13. The volcano has the name fire in it because it is always erupting.
14. Rosario and Chepe pulled the tricycle out of the hedge.
15. They hid the tricycle inside a box.
16. The girl's name is Margarita.
17. Margarita said some men with guns took the tricycle with them.
18. The color of the car the men were driving was black.
19. The men almost ran over Clementina.
20. Rosario's house can get burned up if Volcan de Fuego erupts.
21. Answers will vary
22. Answers will vary
23. Answers will vary

A Song for Cecilia Fantini by Cynthia Astor

Book: A Song for Cecilia Fantini
Author: Cynthia Astor
ISBN: 0-915811-75-8
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1. The story takes place in Willoughby Island.
2. Cecilia Fantini holds music lessons at her house.
3. Mrs. Fantini taught music for 40 years at the elementary school.
4. Emmaline has been studying piano and voice for 4 years.
5. Emmaline was Mrs. Fantini's star pupil.
6. Their favorite song was an old welsh air.
7. Mrs. Fantini was almost eighty.
8. Mrs. Fantini died by having a heart attack.
9. Mrs. Fantini died on Tuesday.
10. Friday was the day of the funeral.
11. Yes, it looked like the whole island was there.
12. Emmaline said to the casket, "Good-bye, Mrs. Fantini.  I shall never forget you."
13. Emmaline couldn't quite see Mrs. Fantini's face anymore and she couldn't quite hear her voice.
14. Emmaline felt disloyal because she was beginning to forget Mrs. Fantini.
15. Emmaline refused to take lessons from Augustus McQuin.
16. Emmaline would think about the duets with Mrs. Fantini.
17. Emmaline asked Morris Kiminski for help to find a way for everyone to remember Mrs. Fantini.
18. Emmaline got a sand dollar shell for Mrs. Fantini's grave.
19. Mr. Morris got a blue stone as smooth as glass for Mrs. Fantini's grave.
20. Isabella Starling owns the village bookstore.
21. The children know the village bookstore owner as Star.
22. Saturday is storytelling hour.
23. Star writes Mrs. Fantini a letter and places it on a kite, then she flies (sends) it up to the clouds.
24. False, Emmaline didn't fly her her kite at Ten Mile Point.
25. False, Star didn't fly her kite at South Bluff.
26. True, Star flew her kite at Ten Mile Point.
27. True, Emmaline flew her kite at South Bluff.
28. Answers will vary
29. Answers will vary

The Moon Over Star by Dianna Butts Aston

Book: The Moon Over Star
Author: Dianna Butts Aston
ISBN: 978-0-8037-3107-3
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1. The names of the astronauts are Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins.
2. Answers will vary
3. The children looked for the biggest watermelon.
4. The kids built a spaceship.
5. The moon is 240,000 miles from Earth.
6. They said the moon is moving away from Earth about an inch a year.
7. President John F. Kennedy said America would send men to the moon by May 1961.
8. Walter Cronkite said, "Man on the moon!"
9. Commander Armstrong said, "The Eagle has landed."
10. Armstrong was 38 years old when he landed on the moon.
11. Commander Armstrong said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
12. 600 million people were watching the telecast of the moon landing.
13. The astronauts landed on the moon on July 20, 1961.
14. Mae is the name of the main character.

Who Was Marco Polo? by Joan Holub, Chapter 1

Book: Who Was Marco Polo?
Author: Joan Holub
ISBN: 978-0-448-44540-3
Chapter 1: A Family of Merchants
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1. Marco Polo was born in 1254.
2. Marco Polo's father's name is Niccolo.
3. Marco Polo's uncle's name is Maffeo.
4. Marco was 15 years old when he met his father.
5. Venetians used coins for money.
6. The coins were called Silver Grossos or Gold Ducats.
7. The Venetians used their hands and feet for their measuring system.
8. No, Rome wasn't the most powerful trading city in the world during this time.
9. Venice is a group of 118 tiny islands connected by canals.
10. The Venetian boats were called gondolas.
11. Italy was not a country during this time.  Italy was a city-state.
12. 100,000 people lived in Venice during this time.
13. A city-state self governs themself.
14. Venice sold products like wood, wheat, and salt.
15. Salt was used to preserve food.
16. Without salt, fish and meat would rot within a week.
17. Salted fish and meat would last for months.
18. In 1260, Marco's father was in the city of Constantinople.
19. Constantinople is located in Turkey and it is now called Istanbul.
20. Kahn means ruler.
21. Genghis Khan was a warlord from Mongolia.
22. The Polos weren't able to return home because war broke out between Berke Khan and Hulagu Khan.  They were grandsons of the warlord Genghis Khan.
23. The Polos were trapped for 3 years in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
24. The people from Mongolia were called Mongols.
25. China at this time was called Cathay.
26. In the 1260's, people thought there were 3 continents.  The 3 continents were called Europe, Asia, and Africa.
27. It took the Polos over a year to reach China.
28. Polos gave Kublai's message to the Pope to send holy oil and 100 priests.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Prologue

Book: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
ISBN: 978-0-590-98886-5
Chapter: Prologue
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1. Yes, August hangs on the top of summer.
2. The first week of August is hot and motionless.
3. No, the first week of August is silent.
4. There is lightning in the sky.
5. Dog Days are strange days.  People will do things they are sure to be sorry for after.
6. One every 10 years, Mae meets her sons.
7. Their names' are Miles and Jesse.
8. The name of the village is Treegap.
9. Winnie Foster decided to run away.
10. Winnie Foster's family owns the Treegap wood.
11. No one knows what the stranger wanted.
12. The narrator compares the wood to a hub of a wheel.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Chapter 6

Book: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
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1. Miles is Jesse's brother's name.
2. They encountered the stranger as they came to the edge of the wood.
3. No, she didn't.
4. Answers will vary
5. Mae showed Winnie her music box.
6. Jesse said, they needed help from Winnie.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Chapter 5

Book: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
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1. Answers will vary
2. Winnie ran into the road.
3. Winnie saw an opening and a giant tree trunk.
4. Winnie saw a boy.
5. The boy was wearing battered trousers, a grubby shirt, and green suspenders.
6. No, the boy did not wear shoes.
7. He was sunburned with a thick mop of curly brown hair.
8. Underneath the pile of leaves was a fountain.
9. Winnie and the boy did not argue.
10. Jesse was 104 years old.
11. Winnie was 10 years old.
12. Winnie wanted to drink from the fountain because she was thirsty.
13. Jesse's brother was older between them.
14. Mae Tuck and her other son showed up and surprised Jesse and Winnie.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Chapter 4

Book: Tuck Everlasting
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1. A stranger came strolling up the road from the village.
2. The stranger wore a black hat.
3. The stranger was tall.
4. The stranger was thin.
5. The stranger had a beard.
6. The stranger wore a yellow suit.
7. The stranger's hair was gray.
8. Winnie's grandmother was born at the house.
9. A wisp of music came from the wood.
10. An elf played the music.
11. Answers will vary

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Chapter 3

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1. Winnie told her troubles to a toad.
2. Answers will vary
3. Winnie's grandmother yelled out for Winnie.
4. Winifred is Winnie's real name.
5. Answers will vary

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Chapter 2

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1. Mae Tuck
2. He was dreaming that they are in heaven.
3. Tuck
4. Mae is going to ride into the wood to meet the boys.
5. 10 years have gone by since Mae has been to Treegap.
6. A music box
7. Mae Tuck, her husband, Miles and Jesse look the same way for 10 years.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Chapter 1

Book: Tuck Everlasting
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1. The road became the property of the people.
2. It had a "touch-me not appearance"
3. It had an iron fence.
4. It send a message of "Move on-we don't want you here"
5. Yes, the village has a gallow.
6. Yes, the village has a jailhouse.
7. The cows
8. The Foster family owned the wood.
9. Winnie live in the cottage.
10. A spring was bubbling around the tree.

Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew by Carolyn Keene, Chapter 1

Book: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew: Case of the Sneaky Snowman
Author: Carolyn Keene
ISBN: 978-0-545-05473-7
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1. George Fayne
2. George
3. 2 days
4. a giant marshmallow
5. Sherlock
6. Clue Crew
7. dog kibbles
8. River Heights Ice Spectacular Show
9. George
10. Svetlana and Alexi Dubonov
11. Snack Shack
12. Toby Leo
13. A student at River Heights Elementary School

Best Friend Next Door by Carolyn Mackler, Chapter 5

Book: Best Friend Next Door
Author: Carolyn Mackler
ISBN: 978-0-545-86424-4
Chapter: 5, Hannah
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1. This is the 2nd event of the season.
2. Emme is swimming back and butterfly.
3. Hannah is swimming 2 freestyles.
4. Hannah and Emme are the OG twins.
5. The five things that Hannah and Emme have in common:
a. They have a palindrome thing
b. The peanut butter thing
c. They live on the same street
d. They have the same birthday
e. They both have sandy hair with a slight greenish hue
6. Emme is tiny and Hannah is tall.
7. Emme likes ice-skating.
8. Hannah is scared of ice-skating.
9. The Dolphins finished in 3rd place.
10. Coach Missy was crying because her sister might lose everything in the flood.
11. Mr. Bryce was reading the book "Holes."
12. Deer Park is in the Adirondacks.
13. Coach Missy is from Deer Park.
14. Mr. Bryce divided the class by girls and boys.
15. The girls decided to call their team "Cider Queenz."
16. Hannah walked home by herself on Monday.
17. Emme has art club on Mondays.
18. Hannah has an uncle named Peter.
19. Hannah is not happy she is having a baby brother.
20. Answers will vary
21. Customers stopped going to the girls' apple cider stand because they started going to the boys' stand.
22. The boys called their team Cider Dukes.
23. The boys are selling their apple cider for 50 cents.
24. The girls are selling their apple cider for $1.00.
25. Hannah threw the first cup of cider.
26. Layla threw the second cup of cider.
27. Mr. Bryce cancelled the fundraiser.

Best Friend Next Door by Carolyn Mackler, Chapter 4

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1. Answers will vary
2. Ms. Linhart hasn't smile since school started.
3. In Greeley it is raining and in Captiva it is sunny.
4. Answers will vary
5. Answers will vary
6. The girls have swim class on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
7. The Silver level is the top of their age group in the swim team.
8. Swim practice is held at the YMCA.
9. Gina, Alexa, and Haley are the 3 girls giving Emme a hard time.
10. Mom J would have gone to medical school if she didn't become a journalist.
11. Mom J has tea with Margo.
12. Mom C is a litigator.
13. Emme saved Sophie's smiley face.
14. Emme told Mom C that she is having a hard time at school.
15. Leesa is a total free spirited kid.
16. Emme is confused and she doesn't know who she is.

Best Friend Next Door by Carolyn Mackler, Chapter 3

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1. Hannah's dad cooks hashbrowns.
2. Mr. Bryce has turned out to be the best teacher.
3. Greeley Elementary's swim team is the Dolphins.
4. Coach Missy is the swim team coach.
5. Julia is a journalist.
6. Sophie drew a smiley face on the wall of her bedroom.
7. Blue Allure is the girls' favorite color.
8. Hannah was born in Colorado.
9. Hannah's dad rides his bike to work.
10. Ryan is the name of the lawyer that is handling Hannah's adoption.
11. Drew is the name of Hannah's dad.
12. Emme was in a swim team in Florida.

Best Friend Next Door by Carolyn Mackler, Chapter 2

Book: Best Friend Next Door
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1. Emme lived in Florida.
2. Hannah lives in New York.
3. Emme and Hannah live in the town of Greeley.
4. Emme  used to live in Captiva Island.
5. Mom C was the stay at home mom.
6. Mom C works for a Rochester law firm.
7. Emme has a cat.
8. Butterball is the name of the cat.
9. Mom J is going to write articles for a magazine.
10. Mom J used to cover parenting issues.
11. Answers will vary
12. Leesa is at a boarding school.
13. Margo bought Butterball a toy.
14. Emma thinks Butterball is lost because he hasn't returned home.
15. No, Butterball didn't return.
16. Butterball was wearing a new necklace.
17. Butterball's picture was on the flyer.
18. Butterball is also known as Radar.
19. Emma bought Butterball a catnip mouse and a string toy.
20. Ms. Linhart will be Emme's teacher at Greeley Elementary.

Best Friend Next Door by Carolyn Mackler, Chapter 1

Book: Best Friend Next Door
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1. Hannah's last name is Strafel.
2. Hannah's last name backwards is Le Farts.
3. Her best friend Sophie moved to Ottawa.
4. Ottawa is in Canada.
5. Hannah lives on Centennial Avenue.
6. Sophie's house sold fast.
7. Margo is the name of Hannah's stepmom.
8. Hannah practices swimming.
9. Hannah's hair is green from swimming practice.
10. Uncle Peter and a few of dad's friends are coming over for barbecue.
11. Mr. Bryce is the name of Hannah's teacher.
12. Hannah goes to Greeley Elementary School.
13. Margo is having a baby.
14. Hannah's family was planning on visiting the Bahamas this winter.
15. Answers will vary
16. Emme is the name of the girl who moved next door.
17. Emme's birthday is on New Year's Day.
18. Hannah's birthday is on New Year's Day.
19. Emme has two moms.
20. Julia and Claire are the names' of Emme's moms.
21. Marley carries an EpiPen.
22. Emme is like Hannah's identical twin.

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Chapter 2

Book: Shiloh
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN: 978-0-545-70277-5

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Chapter 2
1. Left overs from noon's lunch.  This night it is rabbit.
2. Cold cornmeal with Karo syrup.
3. 3 years old
4. 7 years old
5. rabbit
6. an egg
7. Answers will vary
8. Become a Traveling Vet
9. Use sentences from the book to support your answer
10. because he cheats people
11. Answers will vary
12. He spits tobacco really close to them.
13. Marty just ran into Mr. Travers at the fairgrounds.
14. He hunts deer out of season.
15. Answers will vary
16. Answers will vary

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Chapter 1

Book: Shiloh
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Chapter 1

1. Sunday at noon (page 2 paragraph 6)

2. No, he doesn't (page 1 paragraph 3)

3. page 2 paragraph 2

4. West Virginia (page 6 paragraph 2)

5. .22 rifle (page 7 paragraph 2)

6. 11 years old (page 7 paragraph 2)

7. Answers will vary

8. Friendly

9. Sistersville

10. Answers will vary

11. Answers will vary

12. Sistersville

13. Answers will vary

14. 4 room house

15. hills on the three sides

16. cats, dogs, frogs, cows, horses, groundhog, doe, fawns, gray fox

17. yes

18. a beagle

19. Answers will vary

20. fish (Bass)

21. whopping (page  5)

22. whistle (page 5)

23. true

24. because he may catch pneumonia

25. page 7 gives you a clue, Shiloh.

26. Judd Travers

27. Granda Slater

28. 2

29. Baseball and preaching

30. Sunday

31. Because it's Sunday and people go to school

The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis, Chapter 2: Wind

Book: The Dreamer
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1. Neftali’s brother
2. Practicing his singing
3. Jose
4. Teacher and headmaster
5. 15 yrs
6. a poor laborer
7. business or medicine

The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis, Chapter 1: Rain

Book: The Dreamer
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1. Chile
2. Temuco
3. Neftali Reyes
4. Mamadre
5. 2 months after he was born
6. yes
7. Rodolfo
8. Laurita
9. Orlando
10. A local newspaper
11. 4 years old

Unit 2 Lesson 6: How did California's early economy change?

Book: Our California, History-Social Science for California
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1. A hunter-gatherer is a person who gets food by hunting animals and gathering plants.
2. California Indians used pointed sticks, stones, spears, canoes, traps, and women baskets.
3. California Indians used bows and arrows for hunting.
4. California Indians built dams on rivers to gather fish.
5. False, the arrival of the Spanish changed the economy of the California Indians from hunter-gatherer to agricultural.
6. Franciscan missionaries taught many California Indians how to cultivate the land.
7. California Indians learned to grow wheat, corn, and vegetables.
8. California Indians learned to build irrigation systems for farming.

Unit 2 Lesson 5: What was life like in Spanish and Mexican California?

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1. The missions were set up mostly for religious purposes.
2. The men farmed and cared for the animals on a mission.
3. The women cooked, sewed, gardened, and made candles and soap on a mission.
4. The Spanish set up presidios to protect the areas they occupy.
5. Presidios became the centers of trade.
6. Soldiers and settlers lived in the presidios.
7. Pueblo was the name of the villages set up next to the presidios.
8. In 1821 Mexico won its independence from Spain.
9. Mexicans living in California or moving to California received land grants form the Mexican government.
10. The pueblos were mostly used for growing crops.
11. Ranchos were used to raise large numbers of livestock.
12. Ranchos replaced the missions as the center of the area's economy.
13. Raising cattle was an important way for California settlers to make a living.

Unshakeable Shelter by Fast Company

Magazine: Fast Company
Date: May 2016
Article: Unshakeable Shelter
Page: 16
Author:  Fast Company
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1. Answers will vary
2. A New York City firm is designing the schools in Nepal.
3. SHoP is designing and opening 50 schools in Nepal.
4. The schools are intended to be meeting points/places for families after an earthquake.
5. SHoP Architect has been included in the list of architects to design the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago.
6. SHoP plans to build a 73 story tower in Brookly.

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What's this all about? by Lev Grossman

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: July 6-13, 2015
Article: What's this all about?
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1. William Playfair was born in1759.
2. William Playfair worked for Engineer James Watt.
3. The unit of power is named after James Watt.
4. William Playfair pursued draftmanship, accounting, engineering, economics, silversmithing, land speculation, journalism, and extortion after working for Engineer James Watt.
5. William Playfair founded Statistical Graphics.
6. Playfair invented the pie chart, bar chart, and line graph.
7. Playfair's book, "The Commerical and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure and Debts of England During the Whole of the Eighteenth Century" in 1786.
8. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, said that every two weeks humanity creates a quantity of data equivalent to the entire amount created form the dawn of time up until 2003.
9. The Internet of Things is the global network of objects like cars, coke machines, glasses, pacemakers outfitted with sensors and transmitters that communicate with the cloud and one another.
10. Market-Research firm IDC estimates that the world of digital data would grow by a factor of 10 from 2013 to 2020.
11. IDC believes the growth from 2013 to 2020 will be 44 trillion gigabytes.
12. IDC believes the growth from 2013 to 2020 will be 44 zettabytes.
13. True, we're rich in data- but the returns are diminishing rapidly, because after a certain point the more information you have, the harder it becomes to extract meaning from it.
14. Visual Art makes complexity comprehensible and extracting meaning from chaos.
15. The best way to extract meaning from data is to make it visible.
16. CUNY Professor Lev Manovich conducted a visual analysis of 120,000 pictures on Instagram.
17. Women take more selfies.
18. People smile the most in Bangkok.
19. Older people are taking selfies in New York.
20. True, data is like water, data visualization is the flood wall.
21. At Bostonography.com, you can see a map showing the locations of all of Boston's buses.
22. Crimemapping.com shows locations of crimes as they're reported.
23. Neil Halloran created "The Fallen of World War II."
24. "The Fallen of World War II" uses charts and graphs to tell a story through the war and the Holocaust using almost exclusively abstract visualizations that represent the many millions of deaths they caused.
25. True, information doesn't just want to be free.  It wants to be visible too.

Reference
http://time.com/author/lev-grossman/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Playfair
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Lev-Manovich
http://bostonography.com/
http://www.crimemapping.com/
http://www.neilhalloran.com/

When it comes to new ultra-tall towers, the sky is the limit by Vivienne West

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: July 20, 2015
Article: When it comes to new ultra-tall towers, the sky is the limit
Page: 20
Author:  Vivienne Walt
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1. Adrian Smith designed Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
2. Gordon Gill and Adrian Smith are designing Kingdom Tower in Jidda, Saudi Arabia.
3. Kingdom Tower is taller than Burj Khalifa.
4. Kingdom Tower has double-deck elevators so they can stop at two floors at once.
5. Saudi Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is financing the Kingdom Tower.
6. Kingdom Tower will be located in the suburb of Kingdom City.
7. Kingdom Tower is expected to cost $1.23 billion.
8. Burj Khalifa cost $1.5 billion.
9. Architect Adrian Smith is from Chicago.
10. The Empire State Building is 1,454 feet.
11. The One World Trade Center is 1,792 feet.
12. The Wuhan Greenland Center is 2,087 feet.

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http://architizer.com/blog/kingdom-tower-10-facts/

What happened? by Time Magazine

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: July 6-13, 2015
Article: What happened?
Page: 46
Author:  Time Magazine
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1. Humans walked on the moon in1969.
2. The Internet was invented in 1980.
3. Emoji was invented in 1999 in Japan.
4. Mark Zuckerberg found Facebook in 2004.
5. The iPhone was unveiled in 2007.
6. Google unveiled its driverless car in 2014.
7. The first talking picture was unveiled in 1927.
8. The digital computer was invented in 1945.
9. The modern bikini was unveiled in France in 1946.
10. In 1952 Jonas Salk invented the vaccine for polio.
11. In 1957 the Russians launched Sputnik.
12. In 1967 was the first successful heart transplant.
13. In 1879 Thomas Edison patented the lightbulb.
14. In 1885 the first gas-powered car was unveiled.
15. 1903 the Wright Brothers made the first flight.
16. The modern nail polish was invented in 1920.
17. The first lie-detector test was administered in 1921.
18. Henry Luce found Time Magazine in 1923.
19. Television was invented in 1925.
20. The first humans were walking upright about 6 million years ago.
21. Stone tools were invented in Ethiopia about 2.6 million years ago.
22. Humans discovered fire about 1.9 million years ago.
23. The earliest use of paint was about 15,000 B.C.
24. The first calendar was created about 8,000 B.C.
25. People domesticated unruly cats around 7,500 B.C.
26. The first known wine was created in China about 7,000 B.C.
27. Papyrus was invented or discovered in Egypt around 3,000 B.C.
28. Soap was invented in 2,200 B.C.
29. The Assyrians created the aqueduct in 700 B.C.
30. The first play was performed in Greece in 534 B.C.
31. The first hospital was founded in Sri Lanka in 431 B.C.
32. Toilet paper was invented in 851 A.D.
33. The first university is founded in Morocco in 859 A.D.
34. Gunpowder is invented in China around the 9th century.
35. Humans discover the benefit of coffee in Africa around the 9th century.
36. An Italian invents the eyeglasses in 1285.
37. Gutenberg invents the printing press in 1440.
38. Copernicus posits that the Earth revolves around the sun in 1514.
39. Umbrellas become popular in the 18th century.
40. The first pizza parlor is founded in Naples, Italy in 1738.
41. The first symphony was written in 1740-1750.
42. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity's shocking secrets in 1752.
43. John Montagu invents the sandwich in 1762.
44. The first steam-powered engine for a vehicle was created in 1769.
45. America was founded in 1776.
46. A Frenchman took the first photograph in 1826.
47. The first revolver was invented in 1835.
48. The first fax machine was invented in 1842.
49. The first baseball game was played in New Jersey in 1846.
50. Antonio Meucci invented the telephone in 1871.
51. The first electric car was invented in 1837.

The long journey from North Korea to freedom by Bryan Walsh

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: August 17, 2015
Article: The long journey from North Korea to freedom
Page: 26
Author:  Bryan Walsh
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1. Kim IL Sung was the first leader of North Korea.
2. Kim Jong IL was the second leader of North Korea.
3. Kim Jong Un was the third leader of North Korea.
4. The North Korean famine was in the 1990s.
5. Eunsun Kim is the author of "A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea."
6. Joseph Kim is the author of "Under the Same Sky: from Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America."
7. Hyeonseo Lee is the author of "The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story."
8. Adam Johnson is the author of "The Orphan Master's Son."
9. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature.
10. Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
11. 100,000 to 1,000,000 people died in the 1990s North Korean famine.
12. All these authors have starved and lived through the famine.
13. The Korean War was over 60 years old.
14. 25 million people live in North Korea.
15. True, North Koreans live in a state that has total power over them and yet can offer them no real order, no real security, with little hope of change.
16. The United Nations Human Rights Chief reported that North Korea is in a brink of a massive drought and famine.

Come to the Castle by Linda Ashman

Book: Come to the Castle
Author: Linda Ashman
ISBN-13: 978-1-59643-155-3
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1. They fetch water, draw the curtains, help the Earl dress, run his errands, write his letters, serve him dinner, and clean his mess.
2. The Earl has millers, bakers, butlers, pantlers, porters, carters, jesters, knights, marshals, and a priest.
3. True, all servants are committed to the Earl's comfort.
4. True, all servants are convinced that the Earl is divine.
5. Answers will vary
6. The Steward writes notes, keeps accounts, and oversee lands.
7. Answers will vary
8. The Herald will sleep in a stable.
9. Upper class society will sleep in castles while traveling.
10. Lesser knights and nobles sleep ininns while traveling.
11. This book is about Daftwood Castle.
12. Gizzards, livers, feet, and kidneys were grind up as mystery meat.
13. The mystery meat was bind with eggs.
14. The mystery meat was mix with spice, currants and rice.
15. The mystery meat was dropped into stews.
16. The mystery meat was baked in pies.
17. Answers will vary
18. The mystery meat was presented with antlers or feathers.
19. The job of the cleaning servant was to clean the castle.
20. No, the servants didn't pick up after the dogs.
21. Yes, the servants hide the foul odors with heather and thyme.
22. The Gong Farmer shovels the human waste out of the castle.
23. Answers will vary
24. Answers will vary
25. The Healer heals the knight.
26. Answers will vary
27. Answers will vary
28. True, "A wealthy lord like the Earl of Daftwood might live in a huge castle (or castles!), with vast amount of land and more than one hundred servants."
29. False, The Herald delivered messages for the lord.
30. False, The Steward managed the lord's estates.
31. True, dishes during this time were often undercooked or cold by the time they arrived at the table.
32. The garderobe or privy is the medieval equivalent of the bathroom.
33. The doublet was the name of the undershirt a knight wore.
34. Aketon was the name of the padded undercoat a knight wore.
35. The suit of armor sometimes weigh more than 60 lbs.
36. True, marriages were typically arranged by parents for financial benefit.
37. Girls were married at 12 years old or in their late teens.
38. The Jester entertained and performed for the guests.
39. True, doctors during the Middle Ages considered astrology, numerology, and religion when diagnosing an illness.
40. True, herbal remedies were common.
41. True, bloodletting was used to drain the "bad" blood.

The most caring, trusted, likeable candidate does not always win by Michael Scherer

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: August 17, 2015
Article: The most caring, trusted, likeable candidate does not always win
Page: 21
Author:  Michael Scherer
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1. Hillary Clinton's campaign is losing voters.
2. The public has issues about her honesty, trustworthiness and favorability.
3. Vice President Joe Biden calls himself a "fingertip politician."
4. Answers will vary
5. Joel Benenson, Clinton's campaign pollster thinks U.S. voters want a tenacious fighter.

Unit 2 Lesson 4: What was Spain's influence in California?

Book: Our California, History-Social Science for California
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1. El Camino Real is the trail that connects all the missions.
2. The Spanish built forts along the trail to serve as military and trading posts.
3. New Spain was the name of the territory that Spain controlled in the new world.
4. The missions were trading posts for the Spanish Crown and the priest controlled them.  They traded with the eastern United States.
5. Father Junipero Serra was given control of the soldiers in California.

Unit 2 Lesson 3: How did the Spanish change how California Indians lived?

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1. Gaspar de Portola is the name of the explorer that Spain sent in 1767.
2. Father Juan Crespi and Father Junipero Serra were the names of the two Spanish missionaries that traveled with the expedition of 1767.
3. Father Junipero Serra started the mission at San Diego in 1769.
4. A mission is a settlement setup by a religious group to teach their religion and other ways of life to native people.
5. Captain Juan Bautista de Anza settled in San Francisco.
6. 1775 is the year Captain Juan Bautista de Anza settled in San Francisco.
7. Measles, smallpox, and other diseases killed the natives that went to the missions.
8. 1775 is the year California Indians destroy the San Diego Mission.
9. Junipero Serra was a Franciscan priest in the Catholic Church.
10. Junipero Serra is from Majorca, Spain.
11. Miguel Jose Serra was Junipero Serra's original name.
12. Junipero Serra left Spain in 1749.
13. Junipero Serra built 9 missions for the Catholic Church.

Unit 2 Lesson 2: How did early Europeans come to California?

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1. Juan Cabrillo is the Spanish explorer that sailed north from what is now Mexico to find a route to Asia.
2. Upper California or California is the name of the area Juan Cabrillo explored and landed on.
3. San Diego, Cape San Martin, and San Miguel Island are present day name of the areas this Spanish explorer explored.
4. Sir Francis Drake is the name of the English explorer that came after Cabrillo.
5. Nova (New) Albion is the original name of San Francisco.
6. Sir Frances Drake arrived in California in 1579.
7. Albion was an older name for the island of England.
8. Sebastian Vizcaino arrived in California in 1602.
9. 37 years (1579-1542) is the difference in years from Juan Cabrillo's arrival to Sir Francis Drake's arrival.
10. 23 years (1602-1579) is the difference in years from Sir Francis Drake's arrival to Sebastian Vizcaino's arrival.
11. Vitus Bering traveled northeast from Russia across the Pacific Ocean.
12. The Bering Strait is named after Vitus Bering.
13. Captain James Cook explored the Pacific Northwest in 1778.
14. James Cook was an apprentice to a storeowner and a shipowner.
15. James Cook joined the Royal Navy.
16. James Cook mapped the coastlines of New Zealand and eastern Australia.
17. Endeavour and Resolution are the names of the ships James Cook sailed on.

Anthony Bourdain by Jack Dickey

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: August 17, 2015
Article: Anthony Bourdain
Page: 60
Author:  Jack Dickey
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1. Anthony Bourdain saw a food hall in Singapore and used it as his model.  It is called a hawker center in Singapore.
2. These food halls in Hong Kong are called Chinese dai pai dong.
3. Bourdain finds the word authentic in U.S. food culture ridiculous and snobbish.
4. Bourdain says the 1st and 2nd generation immigrants are making amazing mash-ups of food.
5. True, the type of people who are attracted to the restaurant business has stayed the same since the 19th century.
6. Bourdain's big break was his book, "Kitchen Confidential."
7. No, Bourdain didn't expect his success.
8. Bourdain found Uruguay amazing.
9. He says Croatia had really spectacular food.
10. He said Budapest is a mind-blowing city.
11. Bourdain felt Marseille was a major center of awesomeness.
12. He feels Marseille is just fantastic.
13. Ariane is the name of Bourdain's daughter.
14. Bourdain's daughter grew up eating Italian food.
15. Ariane likes watching the Food Network.

Energy drinks have doctors worried-but business is booming by Alexandra Sifferlin

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: July 6-13, 2015
Article: Energy drinks have doctors worried- but business is booming
Page: 22
Author:  Alexandra Sifferlin
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1. Heather Chace is the name of the Biology Teacher at Stroud High School in Oklahoma.
2. Pediatrics Magazine reported that about 50% of adolescents consume energy drinks.
3. Pediatrics Magazine reported that about 31% of adolescents consume energy drinks on a regular basis.
4. Adolescents opt for energy drinks instead of soda.
5. The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior reported that 46% of energy-drink advertisements on television aired on channels that appeal to adolescents.
6. The energy-drink business is expected to grow 11% by 2019.
7. Annual revenue for energy-drinks will be $26.6 billion.
8. The Center for Science in the Public Interest asked the Food and Drug Administration to force energy-drink makers to add safety warnings on their bottles.
9. Senators Edward Markey, Dick Durbin, and Richard Blumenthal have asked for a banning on marketing energy-drinks to minors.
10. Natural-sounding supplements guarana and ginseng are stimulants in energy-drinks.
11. Energy-drink companies say their drinks contain no more caffeine than a cup of coffee.
12. No, we don't send out alerts when an energy-drink sends someone to the hospital.
13. Energy-drinks are market as food or dietary supplements that they don't require premarket safety approval by the FDA.
14. It is difficult for public-health experts to prove if energy-drinks are safe or not.
15. It would be unethical for scientists to design a study in which scientists wait to see if people have dangerous reactions to a product.
16. Energy-drink ingredient blends are proprietary.
17. The FDA collects consumer health complaints.
18. Supplement companies are required by law to file health complaints.
19. No, energy-drink companies are not required to file consumer health complaints.  They are voluntary.
20. The complaints that are voluntary filed are not automatically made available to consumers or even scientists.
21. The FDA received from January 2012 to November 2014 a total of 224 adverse event reports from energy-drink companies.
22. The American Beverage Association represents the energy-drink companies.
23. Red Bull and Monster say they don't market to kids.
24. Monster has a social-networking site called the Monster Army.

Unit 2 Lesson 1: How did early people live in California?

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1. Archaeologists learn that most of California's Indian groups use the natural resources in their area to survive.
2. Archaeologists study how people lived in the past.
3. California Indians wove grasses, roots, and bushes into baskets and mats.
4. Trees were used to build homes and boats.
5. Animal bones were used to make tools.
6. Trade is what we call something that is to exchange good and services.
7. The Cahuilla lived near what is now called the Mojave Desert.
8. The Cahuilla hunted antelope and small animals.
9. The Cahuilla lived in a type of reed house called a kish.
10. A tradition is a special way that a group does something, which is part of their way of life.
11. The Cahuilla used the baskets to store their food and water.
12. The Cahuilla men sang the "bird songs."
13. The "bird songs" tell stories about the Cahuilla people.
14. The Chumash ate acorns, fish, shellfish, whales, sea birds, deer, and small animals.
15. The Chumash respected the condor.
16. The houses were shape like domes and covered with woven grass.
17. Chumash used whalebones to make tools.
18. The Chumash used clamshells for money.
19. The Miwok in Winter lived in homes that were dirt-covered that were built halfway underground for warmth.  In summer they lived in bark houses above the ground to keep cool.
20. The Hupa ate elk, deer, salmon, trout, sturgeon, and fish.
21. True, acorn was a staple source of food for the Hupa and Miwok.
22. Hupa homes were 20 feet long, rectangular out of cedar-wood planks.  Their bottom halves were built underground.
23. The Chumash believe in 3 worlds.
24. The eagle lives in the upper world.
25. Humans live in the middle world.
26. Two serpents live in the lower world.
27. Ceremonies were held for the purpose of preventing earthquakes, floods, or crop failures.
28. True, one Cahuilla myth tells about twin brothers who created the world.

Unit 1 Lesson 5: How are California's communities alike and different?

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1. Los Angeles and San Francisco
2. An urban area describes a city area.
3. A suburban area refers to an area just outside a city.
4. A rural area is an area of small towns and farms.
5. Modesto was founded in 1870.
6. Eureka is located in Northern California.
7. Death Valley had a temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit or 57 degrees Celsius in 1913.
8. You can see giant sequoias at Yosemite National Park.
9. Joshua Tree National Park is located in the Mojave Desert.
10. No, Joshua Tree is not a tree.  It is a type of plant that can grow to be forty feet tall and hundreds of years old.
11. Architecture is the style and design of a building.