Fraction Pizza Practice

You'll need to find equivalent fractions and multiply fractions to get your pizza orders out correctly and on time. Are you up for the challenge?

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Causes of the American Revolution

Causes of the American Revolution- Social Studies Project

Your task: Over the next 2 days, you will choose 4 events that contributed to the Revolutionary War. You may use charts/notes/readings from class and websites provided on the class blog.

You will collect the following information about each event:

Who was involved

A description of the event

When the event took place

Where the event took place

Why the event was significant in leading to war

The reaction of colonists after this event

We have discussed more than 4 events, but you will only need to collect information on 4 causes of war. Organize the information you collect and be ready for the next step of the project...Mrs. Woods will explain that on the second day!

Reducing Fractions/Simplifying fractions/Lowest Terms

Reducing Fractions/Simplifying fractions/Lowest Terms all mean the same thing! We want to find the smallest equivalent fraction for our answer that we can.

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Adding and Subtracting Fractions with like and unlike denominators

Here is a video to help you remember how to add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators.

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Changing an improper fraction into a mixed number

Here is a video to remind you how to change an improper fraction into a mixed number. It will explain what it means and show you a shortcut, as well.

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Changing a Mixed Number to an Improper Fraction

Would you like a refresher on changing a mixed number to an improper fraction? Check this video out!

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RRJ Entry

Tonight for homework, I would like you to do some thinking and some writing about the work you have been doing in your historical fiction book clubs or our class read-aloud My Brother Sam is Dead. Please complete a one-page entry sharing your thoughts. Some of the ideas you might write about could be:

-Setting (Where, when and what is the emotional atmosphere like?)
-Conflict/Tension
-Change (Who or what has changed? Why is this important?)
-Looking closely at character (Their traits, what motivates them, what pressures they face and the problems that exist for them)
-Repetition- What is being repeated and why? What could this mean?
-Themes

Your entry is due tomorrow, February 5, 2015.