The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, Chapter 1

Book: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Author: Brian Selznick
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Chapter 1: Thief

1. Answers will vary
2. Answers will vary
3. The old man grabbed Hugo before he got away with the windup toy.
4. The old man called the Station Inspector.
5. Answers will vary
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7. Answers will vary

U.S. lambastes Netanyahu over claim by Tracy Wilkinson and Joshua Mitnick

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, September 11, 2016
Article: U.S. lambastes Netanyahu over claim
Writer: Tracy Wilkinson and Joshua Mitnick
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1. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is saying that the Palestinian leadership wants a Palestinian State with no Jewish people living in it.
2. Opposition Lawmaker Tzipi Livni believes Netanyahu's message was aimed to Republicans in the U.S. that support Israeli settlements.
3. Yoav Kisch, Legislator to Likud Party, defended Netanyahu's reference to ethnic cleansing as a way to expose hypocrisy.
4. Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War.

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley

Book: The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Author:  Barbara Kerley
ISBN: 0-439-11494-2
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1. The story takes place in 1853.
2. London is the setting at the beginning of the story.
3. The character painted animals.
4. The name of the character is Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
5. The character was building dinosaurs.
6. The Crystal Palace Museum was the building that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert built.
7. No, people didn't know what dinosaurs looked like.
8. Scientist Richard Owen helped Waterhouse.
9. Answers will vary, he wanted to be accepted by the other paleontologist of the time.
10. The scientist dined inside of an iguanodon.
11. Crystal Palace is located in Sydenham Park.
12. 40,000 spectators attended the regal ceremony.
13. Waterhouse came to the United States in 1868.
14. Waterhouse visited New York City.
15. Central Park in New York City wanted Waterhouse to build them a dinosaur.
16. Hadrosaurus and Laelaps were the dinosaurs that Waterhouse was going to build.
17. Waterhouse was known for being the first to build a complete dinosaur skeleton.
18. The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia is the museum that Waterhouse presented with the Hadrosaurus.
19. The Paleozoic Museum was built in Central Park.
20. William "Boss" Tweed stopped work on the Paleozoic Museum.
21. Waterhouse made his speech on March of 1871.
22. Waterhouse went to Princeton University in New Jersey after New York City, then the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
23. Waterhouse was 21 years old when he completed his work in the U.S.
24. Iguanodon skeletons are found in a coal mine in Belgium.
25. Waterhouse's cottage was named Fossil Villa.

The Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston

Book: The Moon Over Star
Author:  Dianna Hutts Aston
ISBN: 978-0-8037-3107-3
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1. The story took place in 1969.
2. Grandpa led the singing in church.
3. The church congregation prayed for the 3 astronauts.
4. The 3 astronauts in space were Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins.
5. The girl's grandpa thought the space program was a waste of money.
6. The children looked for a watermelon in grandpa's watermelon patch.
7. Lacey is the name of the youngest cousin.
8. The children build a spaceship.
9. The girl got to be Commander Armstrong.
10. The spaceship traveled 25,000 miles per hour.
11. Saturn was the name of the rocket.
12. The spaceship travels 25,000 miles per hour in space.
13. The moon is 240,000 miles from Earth.
14. The name of the spaceship is called the Eagle.
15. Walter Cronkite was the name of the newsman.
16. Commander Armstrong was directing the landing of the Eagle.
17. Gramps was a farmer.
18. Gramps was "lifetime-tired."
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20. Answers will vary
21. The astronauts landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.
22. 600 million people were watching the moon landing on television.
23. Answers will vary

Frida by Jonah Winter

Book: Frida
Author: Jonah Winter
ISBN: 0-590-20320-7
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1. Frida was born in Mexico.
2. Frida's house color is blue.
3. Frida's house was located in Coyoacan, Mexico.
4. Frida's father was a photographer and an artist.
5. Frida's father taught her how to use paintbrushes.
6. Frida's mother took care of 6 children.
7. Yes, Frida was a lonely child.
8. Yes, Frida had imaginary friends.
9. Frida fell ill.
10. Frida taught herself how to draw when she fell ill.
11. After Frida got better she wanted to be an artist.
12. Frida made copies of other paintings.
13. Frida's father painted onto photographs.
14. Yes, Answers will vary
15. Frida's father showed her how to paint onto paintings.
16. Frida gets inspiration by looking at things closely and using a microscope.
17. Frida studied science at school.
18. Frida was involved in a vehicle accident going home from school.
19. A trolley runs into the bus.
20. Painting helped Frida survive the hospital stay.
21. Frida walked with a cane after the accident.
22. Answers will vary
23. Answers will vary
24. Frida dealt with not leaving the house by painting and using her imagination.
25. Answers will vary
26. "Exvotos" are paintings with magical scenes with words at the bottom.
27. Answers will vary
28. Frida turns her pain into something beautiful.  It is like a miracle.
29. Frida was born July 6, 1907.
30. Frida was born in Coyoacan, Mexico.
31. Frida's father's name is Guillermo Kahlo.
32. Frida's mother's name is Calderon de Kahlo.
33. Frida was 7 years old when she was struck with polio.
34. Frida was in bed for 9 months.
35. Frida's right leg shrunk because of polio.
36. Since Frida's leg shrunk because of polio, she walked with a limp.
37. Frida was in a horrible bus accident at the age of 18 years old.
38. Frida died on July 13, 1954.
39. Frida married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in 1929.

Making Connections

Book: Science Resources, Grade 4
ISBN-10: 1-59242-996-3

Physical Sciences

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Section: Magnetism and Electricity
Making Connections

Making Static
1. Static electricity starts with atoms.
2. Atoms are the small particles that everything is made of.
3. Atoms have a nucleus in the center.
4. False, the nucleus has a positive charge.
5. Atoms have tiny electrons.
6. Electrons move around the nucleus.
7. True, electrons have negative charge.
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Edison Sees the Light
9. No, Thomas Edison didn't invent the electric lightbulb.
10. Thomas Edison invented the photograph, the motion picture camera and the first copy machine.
11. The filament is the part of the lightbulb that actually makes the light.
12. Answers will vary (on the top)
13. The filament burns as the current of electricity flows through it.
14. No, electricity can't be delivered to the bulb if the lightbulb is not in the bulb holder.
15. The electric current has energy.
16. heat energy and light energy
17. The electric energy converted to heat energy and light energy.
18. Thomas Edison
19. Lewis Latimer got the patent for the carbon filament.
20. Inventors get patents from the government when they invent something new.
21. Thomas Edison bought Latimer's patent.
22. Answers will vary
23. Lewis Latimer wrote books on electrical engineering.
24. Lewis Latimer wrote patents for new inventions.
25. Lewis Latimer was a founding member of the Edison Pioneers.
26. Lewis Latimer was an African American member of the Edison Pioneers.

Summary: Making Connections
27. Electrons are tiny particles that go around the larger nucleus of an atom.
28. Electrons have negative charges.
29. The nucleus has a positive charge.
30. negative charge
31. positive charge
32. Items that have negative charges repel.
33. True, two objects with a negative charge always repel.
34. True, two objects with a positive charge also repel.
35. The objects will attract
36. True, opposite charges attract.
37. Current electricity is a charge on the move.
38. current electricity
39. A copper wire is an electricity conductor.
40. circuit
41. Answers will vary
42. energy
43. Conversion means change
44. When electric energy is traveling around a circuit then it converts to light energy.
45. When electric energy is converted to motion energy.
46. Answers will vary

The Force

Book: Science Resources, Grade 4
ISBN-10: 1-59242-996-3

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Section: Magnetism and Electricity

When Magnet Meets Magnet
1. Answers will vary
2. Answers will vary
3. Magnetics stick to iron.
4. You make steel by mixing iron with other metals.
5. Magnets stick to steel because steel is mostly iron.
6. The five metals magnets do not stick to aluminum, copper, silver, gold and brass.
7. The two metals that magnets stick two are iron and steel.
8. Answers will vary
9. Answers will vary
10. Magnetic poles are at the end part of a magnet.
11. Magnetic poles are called north poles and south poles.
12. The magnetic poles are located at the end of the magnet.
13. True, magnets always have a north pole and a south pole.
14. Like poles repel.
15. Opposite poles attract.
16. A force is a push or a pull.
17. Magnetism is a force.
18. You feel the magnetic force when you pull two attracting magnets apart or push two repelling magnets together.
19. Induced magnetism is magnetism in the iron.
20. Lodestone is when magnetite is magnetic by itself.
21. The area that is rich with lodestone is Magnesia, present-day Turkey.
22. Utah, Arkansas, Minnesota, and New York are the 4 magnetite sources in the U.S.

Magnificent Magnetic Models
23. The ancient Egyptians and Romans used magnets to create artwork.
24. The Egyptians hung iron and lodestone figures from ropes.
25. The Romans used magnets to suspend a figure of the god Mercury in midair in one of their temples.

Make a Magnetic Compass
26. A magnetic field is invisible lines that loop.

Summary: The Force
27. True, magnets are attracted to iron and steel.
28. True, iron changes into a temporary magnet.
29. True, magnets that enter the magnetic field of another magnet reorient to line up with the invisible field.
30. A compass is a magnetic needle that is free to rotate at its center.
31. True, Earth is a huge magnet.