Language Arts:
Get 4 signatures:
1. Story test
2. Opinion writing
3. 4 Scholastic Articles summary
4. Spellcabulary-be sure to write each missed word AND definition ten times.
5. Complete RCC 18-23
6. Reading logs came home today-due May 1, 2019
7. Reading Contracts are due on Wednesday.
Book recommendations are at bottom of today's blog!

Math:
1. Get 2 parent signatures on Place Value Quizzes
2. Complete:
p. 38   #19, 21-26
p. 39 ALL
p. 40   #14-15, 18-21

Topic 1 test = Friday
Study all homework and quizzes

Science:
Chapter 6 test = Wednesday
Study!

Other:
Picture day is NEXT Tuesday, Sept. 18. Bring all forms/money on that day. :)

Our class NEEDS a PTA rep, if you're interested please email me at mcannon@gusd.net.

Book Recommendations:

Historical Fiction:

Author	Title
Avi	Iron Thunder (1861-1865; Civil War)
Anderson, Laurie Halse	Chains (American Revolution; Slavery)
Barrow, Randi	Saving Zasha (WWII; Russia)
Birney, Betty	Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs (1923; Missouri)
Blackwood, Gary L.	Around the World in 100 Days (Victorian England)
Bruchac, Joseph	Children of the Longhouse (1400's; Mohawk Village)
Choldenko, Gennifer	Al Capone Does My Shirts (1935; San Francisco)
Curtis, Christopher Paul	Elijah of Buxton (1859; Freed Slaves in Canada)
	Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 (1963; US)
Cushman, Karen	Midwife's Apprentice (Middle Ages; England)
De Angeli, Marguerit	Door in the Wall (13th Century; England)
Dumon Tak, Bibi	Soldier Bear (WWII; Middle East & Europe)
Erdrich, Louise	Birchbark House (1847; Lake Superior)
	The Game of Silence (1849; Ojibwa Indians)
Giff, Patricia Reilly	Willow Run (WWII; Michigan)
Going, K.L.	Liberation of Gabriel King (1976; Georgia)
Gutman, Dan	Ted & Me (Baseball Card Adventures Series - 1941; Pearl Harbor)
Haas, Jessie	Chase (post Civil War in mining town)
Hartnett, Sonya	The Midnight Zoo (WWII; Romany)
Hayles, Marsha	Breathing Room (1940; Tuberculosis)
Kadohata, Cynthia	Weedflower (WWII; Japanese American)
Kelly, Jacqueline	The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (1899; Texas)
Klages, Ellen	Green Glass Sea (WWII; Los Alamos)
Lai, Thanhha	Inside Out & Back Again (Vietnam War; Immigration in Alabama)
Levine, Kristin	Lions of Little Rock (1958; Little Rock)
Martin, Ann	Here Today (1960's)
McCaughrean, Geraldine	Kite Rider (13th Century; China)
Meyer, Susan	Black Radishes (WWII; French Occupation)
Peck, Richard	A Year Down Yonder (1937; Illinois)
	Teacher's Funeral (20th Century; Indiana)
Philbrick, Rodman	Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (Civil War)
Prevost, Guillaume	The Book of Time (Timetravel: Egypt; Dark Ages; WWI)
Rinaldi, Ann	The Last Full Measure (American Civil War)
Schmidt, Gary D.	Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy   (1911; Freed Slaves)
Selznick, Brian	The Invention of Hugo Cabret (1931; Paris, France)
Speare, Elizabeth George	Witch of Blackbird Pond (Colonial Connecticut)
Stone, Phoebe	The Romeo and Juliet Code (WWII; Maine)
Timberlake, Amy	One Came Home (1800s; Wisconsin)
Vanderpool, Clare	Moon Over Manifest ( Great Depression; Kansas)
Wells, Rosemary	On the Blue Comet (Timetravel: Great Depression)
Wilder, Laura Ingalls	Little House in the Big Woods (Little House Series - 19th Century America; Wisconsin)
Williams-Garcia, Rita	One Crazy Summer (1968; California)
Wilson, Diane	Firehorse (19th Century; Boston)
Winthrop, Elizabeth	Counting on Grace (1910; Child Labor)
Woods, Brenda	Saint Louis Armstrong Beach (2005; New Orleans)
Yelchin, Eugene	Breaking Stalin's Nose (WWII; Soviet Union)

REALISTIC FICTION 5TH & 6TH GRADES

AUTHOR	TITLE
Ames, Mildred	Without Hats Who can Tell the Good Guys?
Avi	S.O.R. Losers
Banks, Lynne	Alice-By-Accident
Bauer, Joan	Hope Was Here
	Stand Tall
Bauer, Marion	On My Honor
Bennett, Frances	A Little Princess
Birdsall, Jeanne	The Penderwicks
	Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy
Blume, Judy	Blubber
Burnett, Frances	A Little Princess
Buyea, Rob	Because of Mr. Terupt
Choldenko, Gennifer	Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
Clements, Andrew	The Janitor's Boy
Conly, Jane	Crazy Lady!
Connor, Leslie	Crunch
Conway, Celeste	The Goodbye Time
Creech, Sharon	Heartbeat
Crum, Shutta	Spitting Image
Danzinger, Paula	Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars
Dorris, Michael	The Window
Dowell, Frances O'Roark	Secret Language of Girls
Draper, Sharon	Out of My Mind
Eige, Lillian	Dangling
Fehler, Gene	Never Blame the Umpire
Frazier, Helen	The Other Half of My Heart
Gantos, Jack	Joey Pigza Loses Control
Grant, Katy	Hide and Seek
Greene, Constance	A Girl Called Al
Hannigan, Katherine	Ida B.nd Her Plan to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World
Hiaasen, Carl	Chomp
Holm, Jennifer	Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf
Hamilton, Virginia	Plain City
Henkes, Kevin	Words of Stone
	The Birthday Room
Horvath, Polly	Everything on a Waffle
Johnson, Emily	Write Me If You Dare
Kelley, Jane	Nature Girl
Kelly, Jacqueline	The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Konigsburg, E.L.	A View From Saturday
Koss, Amy	Stranger in Dadland
Lord, Cynthia	Rules
Lowery, Lois	Attaboy Sam
	Gossamer
MacLachlan, Patricia	Journey
Martin, Ann	Corner of the Universe
Mass, Wendy	Finally
McDonald, Megan	Cloudy with a Chance of Boys
Mills, Claudia	Lizzie at Last
Myracle, Lauren	Eleven (series)
Na, An	A Step from Heaven
Park, Barbara	Graduation of Jake Moon
Paterson, Katherine	Bridge to Terabithia
	The Great Gilly Hopkins
Paulsen, Gary	Lawn Boy
	Winter Room
Perkins, Lynne Rae	Criss Cross
Pevsner, Stella	Keep Stompin' Till the Music Stops
Rhodes, Jewell	Ninth Ward
Roberts, Willo D.	Hostage
Rodowsky, Colby	Clay
Sachar, Louis	Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
Schmidt, Gary	Okay for Now
Smith, Roland	Zach's Lies
Spinelli, Jerry	Crash
	Maniac Magee
Tolan, Stephanie	Surviving the Applewhites
Ure, Jean	Skinny Melon and Me
Vanderpool, Clare	Moon Over Manifest
Voigt, Cynthia	Dicey's Song
	A Solitary Blue
Wallace, Barbara B.	Sparrows in the Scullery
Wallace-Brodeur, Ruth	Blue Eyes Better
Wiles, Deborah	Love, Ruby Lavender
	Each Little Bird That Sings
Wilson, Jacqueline	The Lottie Project
Wolfson, Jill	What I Call Life
Woodson, J.	Peace, Locomotion
Wright, Betty	The Wish Master
Yee, Lisa	Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time
Zinnen, Linda	Truth About Rats, Rules and Seventh Grade