Mr. Kochis – 7 th Grade Reading 5/8/17 - Day 5 ATB: Word of the Day Copy the definition of the word below and answer the multiple choice question. warrant \ˈwȯr-ənt, ˈwär-\ noun and verb noun: formal and explicit approval verb: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of But this girl will have the warrant of all the world to justify a second choice. Source: Lady Anna In this sentence, warrant means: A. exclusion B. disapproval C. clamor D. sanction https://nyti.ms/2pdxBHw Activities: 1. Bionics Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPhkVPNKtVA 2. Freak the Mighty Web-Quest Quiz 3. Complete Freak the Mighty Chapters 1-4 Questions 4. Found Poem Due 5/9/17. Obj. 1. Write a definition for the word bionics. 2. Describe the setting for the novel Freak the Mighty.
verbnoun: formal and explicit approval verb: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of Butthisgirlwillhavethewarrantofalltheworldtojustifyasecondchoice.Source:LadyAnnaInthissentence,warrantmeans:A.exclusionB.disapprovalC.clamorD.sanctionhttps://nyti.ms/2pdxBHwActivities:1.BionicsVideohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPhkVPNKtVA2.FreaktheMightyWeb-QuestQuiz3.CompleteFreaktheMightyChapters1-4Questions4.FoundPoemDue5/9/17.
Type1:Answerinthreesentences.Has the fidget-spinner fad come to your school? Are you a fan? Why or why not?AnswerinGoogleClassroom.Whenyouarefinishedreadtherelatedarticle.
How Fidget Spinners Became a HulaHoop for Generation ZBy ALEX WILLIAMS MAY 6, 2017
One “horrible” summer in 1993 Unable to play with her daughter Sara, then7, because of her myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder that causes muscleweakness, a Florida inventor named Catherine Hettinger invents a prototype of afidget spinner as way to bond with her daughter, Ms. Hettinger recently told TheGuardian.
1997 Visions of Rubik’s Cubes, Koosh balls and Pet Rocks presumably dancingin her head, Ms. Hettinger goes to Washington to secure a patent for the toy.
1997-2015 All in all, a pretty slow couple of decades on the fidget-spinnerfront. After Hasbro declines to market Ms. Hettinger’s invention, the patentexpires in 2005. Small manufacturers, meanwhile, begin to market endlessvariations of the spinner, often as a therapeutic aid for children with attentiondeficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety or autism, to help them focus and relievestress. Most are three-prong or snowflake-shape devices made of plastic or metaland fitted with ball bearings, allowing them to spin between users’ fingertips. Noone so far has explained why this is considered fun.
September 2016 While spinners are nothing more than a Detroit-based soulact from the early 1970s to most people, early-adopter entrepreneurs are beginningto sense a potential fidget-based gold rush. In Denver, two 20-something brothers,Mark and Matthew McLachlan, seek to raise $15,000 on Kickstarter for their“Fidget Cube.” They end up attracting more than $6 million. “We checked out whattools were available for fidgeting,” the founders told Adweek, “and we couldn’t find
any that we’d feel truly comfortable using in a professional setting.”
Dec. 23, 2016 The hype train begins chugging. Just in time for Christmas, Forbesdeclares fidget spinners “the must-have office toy for 2017,” observing thatstressed-out executives whose fingers are “a raw, bloody mess” because of“boredom-induced nail-biting” are trading their stress balls for fidget spinners likeMD Engineering’s Torqbars, priced from $129.99 to $259.99 but which beginselling for as much as $400 on eBay, because of their limited availability. It’s like anew iPhone for those who do not actually require their gadgets to do anything.
March 22 YouTube, along with Reddit, is filling up with videos on fidget-spinner reviews, hacks, and tricks. “Fidget spinning is a lifestyle,” DavidKing, anAustralian tech blogger, says in his video, “Fidget Spinner Tricks With aProfessional Fidgeter,” which has been viewed more than 3 million times. He waskidding. We think.
March 31 Lest you be confused, the fidget spinner is not just a child’s toy forgrown-ups. Children love them too, according to The Boston Globe, as fidgetspinners have apparently supplanted recent fads like bottle-flipping andhomemade slime as a teacher nuisance. “When we got back from Christmas break,a couple of kids had them, then a couple more kids had them, and then they weredefinitely en vogue,” one New Hampshire schoolteacher said.
April 10 It’s not a party until the celebrities show up. InStyle recounts howGwyneth Paltrow’s son, Moses, recently celebrated his 11th birthday by being given“a set of cool new fidget spinners before spending a sun-filled day at Legoland inCalifornia with friends and his proud mama.”
April 20 As school districts around the country ban these focus tools forbeing too, yes, distracting, a New York schoolteacher named Cristina BolusiZawacki takes to Working Mother to denounce fidget-spinners: “Let’s stop with theflowery euphemisms. It’s a toy and I hate it. I actually have a visceral reactionwhen they emerge from a pencil case or pocket, like a sadistic version of Pavlov’sbell experiment.”
May 2 The backlash is in full effect. In an article called “Are Fidget Spinners aScam?” Britain’s Daily Mail quotes Dr. Mark Rapport, the director of the Children’s
Learning Clinic at the University of Central Florida’s department of psychology, assaying that “using a spinnerlike gadget is more likely to serve as a distraction thana benefit for individuals with A.D.H.D.”
May 4 What backlash? Fidget-spinners occupy 17 of Amazon’s 20 best-sellersin the Toys & Games category (and fidget cubes account for two more). A GoogleTrends chart of the search term looks like a hockey stick.
May 5 Ms. Hettinger still has not seen a dime from any of this, at least sincethe 1990s, when she sold a few thousand spinners at fairs in Florida, she toldMoney. But that could change. Ms. Hettinger, now 62, plans to start her ownKickstarter campaign for a “classic” spinner soon.
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ATB:StudentOpinionType1:Answerinthreesentences.Would you ever move to another country for work? Why or why not?Answer in google classroom. Read the related article when you complete the question.
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write whatyou think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.
1. “. . . she said she’s delighted that you and Kevin are going to be friends.”
2. “She’s quite a remarkable young woman, you know. Raising that poor boy all on her own.”
3. “We were all of us living over in the tenements in those days, because the rent was so cheap and we were all just starting out.”
4. Gwen says, “Kevin please,” and her voice is real small, like she’s embarrassed.”
5. “Expel the object!” Freak shouts. “Regurgitate, you big moron!”
6. “Expel the object!” Freak shouts. “Regurgitate, you big moron!”
7. “Amazing perspective up here,” he’s saying. “This is what you see all the time.”
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Freak the Mighty Vocabulary Chapters 5 - 7 Continued
8. “They’ve locked on to us. Their trajectory is converging. Go to the left,” he says. “Make it quick if you want to live!”
9. “They’ve locked on to us. Their trajectory is converging. Go to the left,” he says. “Make it quick if you want to live!”
10. In a small voice I say, “Tell me what to do,” and Freak pats me on the shoulder and says, “Just give me a nanosecond to process the alternatives.”
Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.
Answer Vocabulary Word Definition
1 delighted a. to vomit
2 remarkable b. apartment houses over-crowed and poorly maintained
3 tenements c. the path of a moving body or particle
4 embarrassed d. a view or outlook
5 expel e. choices
6 regurgitate f. very happy
7 perspective g. to feel self-conscious or ill at ease
8 trajectory h. eject forcefully
9 converging i. uncommon; worthy of notice
10 alternatives j. coming together in one place
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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - Freak The Mighty
Chapters 1 - 4 1. Who is telling the story? 2. Who are Gram and Grim? 3. Max sees Freak for the first time in day care. What does Max think of Freak? 4. Identify Him. 5. Why is Grim concerned about Maxwell? 6. What didn’t Max have until Freak moved down the street? 7. Describe the down under. Why does Max like the down under? 8. The second time Max sees Freak, he is giving orders to the moving men. Describe how Freak looks when Max sees him. 9. What does Max retrieve from the tree for Freak?10. What observation does Max make about how Freak talks?11. What does Freak do and say when Max asks him why he calls his mother “Fair Gwen of Air”? 12. What does Max know about King Arthur?13. What is Freak’s version of the Arthurian Legend?14. Why is Freak really interested in the knights?15. What does Freak tell Max about robots?16. What is Freak’s mother’s reaction to seeing Max? Chapters 5 - 7 1. Describe how Max feels when he goes to the place in his head. 2. What was Gwen’s relationship with Max’s mother? 3. What does Gwen think of Max’s father? 4. People say that Max is the “spitting image” of his father. Why is it bad for Max to look like his father? 5. Why does Max cry like a baby when he goes to bed after having dinner with Freak and Gwen? 6. What happens to Max and Freak when they are walking to the millpond to see the fireworks? 7. Identify Blade. 8. Why does Max put Freak on his shoulders at the fireworks display? 9. Describe what happens to Freak and Max after the fireworks.10. How do Freak and Max get out of the pond after escaping from Tony D. and his gang?11. After rescuing Freak and Max from the pond muck, who does the cop say Max is?12. When the police officers ask for the boys’ names after rescuing them, what name does Kevin give the police?
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SundayReview | OPINION
Go East, Young AmericanBy SUKETU MEHTA APRIL 21, 2017
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — One of the fiercest debates in the nationthese days centers on immigration to America, and whether it takes jobs away frompeople already here. But maybe the solution is emigration from America. Today,there are nine million American civilians living abroad — up from four million in1999. In the 21st century, America’s greatest export could just be … Americans.
Just as India’s greatest export has long been Indians. In 1936, when mygrandfather was 16, he had to help support his five younger siblings in a village inGujarat. His father sent him to Nairobi, Kenya, where he began his career sweepingfloors in his uncle’s accounting office. In turn, his children moved, to America, toEngland, to Australia. In the 1970s my father stood for nine hours a day at theDiamond Dealers Club on West 47th Street in Manhattan because he couldn’tafford an office. My grandfather’s descendants are doctors, lawyers, publicservants, corporate executives all over the world. Mobility is survival.
Many Americans recoil at the idea that they should have to go abroad foranything more taxing than sightseeing. The number of Americans working abroadis very low compared with other developed countries. Only a third of Americanshave a working passport; three-quarters of Britons do, and 60 percent ofCanadians.
If you were to believe President Trump, and even some supporters of SenatorBernie Sanders, you would think that this is because every American has a divineright to a well-paid job in his own country.
The 20th century was the American century; the 21st, not so much. A young
person in Denmark or New Zealand has a better quality of life than a young personin the United States. There you can go to college free, not have to worry aboutmoney when you’re sick, and enjoy two months’ vacation even if you’re only anintern. Partly this is due to the significant underinvestment by the government ineducation, health care and the arts, which has left sections of the United Stateslooking like postwar Europe.
Americans who work abroad do quite well; American pilots for Chinese airlines, forexample, make $300,000 a year. All around the world, there are legions ofAmericans making a good living as engineers, corporate executives, Englishteachers.
Critics say this kind of globalization is only for the elite, those lucky andwealthy enough to have been educated at the best schools. But it’s not just jobsrequiring a college degree that Americans should consider doing overseas. A 150-peso-an-hour job in an automobile plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, isn’t the sameas a $40-an-hour union job in Detroit; but you will live much better than if youmade $8 an hour slinging burgers in Scranton, Pa. Maybe, instead of building awall, President Trump should be demanding that Mexico open up its labor marketto Americans.
I certainly understand why Americans might be attached to their house, theirfriends and family, their home country. I’ve made New York my home, the lasthome for those who have no other. The United States is a beautiful country, a safecountry and, for most people, a comfortable country. It’s true that we should fightfor better-paying jobs at home; companies move jobs abroad so they can payworkers less, in countries with looser environmental and labor laws.
But American jobs are disappearing not because they’re moving to Mexico orChina; it’s because they are increasingly being done by robots. What we need is nottariffs, but training. We also need to gently teach our children: You might prefer tostay in the house you were born in all your life, but it’s not a constitutional right.
My family had to move because there was no future in rural Gujarat; 200 yearsof British colonialism had left the Indian economy in ruins. When we moved, wemissed our vegetarian food, our family, the trees, the rivers and our language.Some of it we could take with us; some of it we couldn’t. We returned to Gujarat
when we could.
Americans are more fortunate; the whole world looks like America now.Americans who emigrate don’t have to go without cheeseburgers, “Seinfeld” or theEnglish language.
So go forth into the world with confidence, young American! Don’t believe Mr.Trump’s defeatist talk of “American carnage.” Americans have a spirit ofenterprise, efficiency and honesty that is unparalleled in the world. If you don’tbelieve me, try visiting a Chinese or Indian or Russian government office — and seehow an American government office compares.
Some of my former New York University students were able to land lucrativejobs in the booming Indian news industry because they have writing and editingskills honed at a top American university. In India, their salaries can buy them anapartment, nice dinners, domestic help. Most of their peers in New York are stillstruggling in unpaid internships and have to be supported by loans or parents.
For my college-going sons, there is no guarantee that there will be a jobwaiting after graduation in America. But they have already worked, withconfidence, in Brazil and Indonesia. Growing up in New York has made themcomfortable with the idea of living anywhere in the world. The other day, my olderson, who wants to be a journalist, told me he was thinking about looking for a jobin … India.
Suketu Mehta is the author of “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found” and teachesjournalism at New York University.
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A version of this op-ed appears in print on April 23, 2017, on Page SR11 of the New York edition with theheadline: Go east, young American.
ATB:WordoftheDayCopythedefinitionofthewordbelowandanswerthemultiplechoicequestion.amenities \ə-ˈme-nə-tēz, -ˈmē-\ noun : things that make you comfortable and at ease Which of the following would best be described as a car's amenities? A. assembly line workers B. passengers C. air conditioning and leather seats D. brakes and a steering wheel https://nyti.ms/2q8QE9PActivities:1.FreaktheMightyChapters1-4KahootQuiz
SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - Freak The Mighty
Chapters 1 - 4 1. Who is telling the story? 2. Who are Gram and Grim? 3. Max sees Freak for the first time in day care. What does Max think of Freak? 4. Identify Him. 5. Why is Grim concerned about Maxwell? 6. What didn’t Max have until Freak moved down the street? 7. Describe the down under. Why does Max like the down under? 8. The second time Max sees Freak, he is giving orders to the moving men. Describe how Freak looks when Max sees him. 9. What does Max retrieve from the tree for Freak?10. What observation does Max make about how Freak talks?11. What does Freak do and say when Max asks him why he calls his mother “Fair Gwen of Air”? 12. What does Max know about King Arthur?13. What is Freak’s version of the Arthurian Legend?14. Why is Freak really interested in the knights?15. What does Freak tell Max about robots?16. What is Freak’s mother’s reaction to seeing Max? Chapters 5 - 7 1. Describe how Max feels when he goes to the place in his head. 2. What was Gwen’s relationship with Max’s mother? 3. What does Gwen think of Max’s father? 4. People say that Max is the “spitting image” of his father. Why is it bad for Max to look like his father? 5. Why does Max cry like a baby when he goes to bed after having dinner with Freak and Gwen? 6. What happens to Max and Freak when they are walking to the millpond to see the fireworks? 7. Identify Blade. 8. Why does Max put Freak on his shoulders at the fireworks display? 9. Describe what happens to Freak and Max after the fireworks.10. How do Freak and Max get out of the pond after escaping from Tony D. and his gang?11. After rescuing Freak and Max from the pond muck, who does the cop say Max is?12. When the police officers ask for the boys’ names after rescuing them, what name does Kevin give the police?
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