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Students will take a set of data from the book, If the World Were a Village by David Smith, and make a bar graph to show the data. Students will write conclusion statement concerning the data they graphed. They will also formulate questions related the their graph.

Students will write a six frame comic strip tracing the travels of an Oxygen molecule as it travels throughout the human body. Vocabulary words studied in class will be used in the story to describe the respiratory process. The six steps given will be utilized in the correct order in in comic strip. Work will be neat and easily read. Students will share their comic strips with class members.

Students will write a free verse poem using a given "I Am..." Format. Poem will reflect the student's thoughts and feelings and will contain figurative language. The poem will be typed in correct format on the word processor.

Students will write to describe a connection that they made with the book, Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Ryan Munoz.

Students will classify a set of solid geometric shapes using number of vertices, shapes of sides, number of edges, etc. They will be able to state their "rule" and identify which shapes are included in their grouping. They will be able to state why each shape in properly included in their group or why no other shapes can be included. Students will sketch and label each shape that fits in their grouping.