Alliteration

This poem by Shel Silverstein is a great example of alliteration!

BAM! POW! READ!

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Tessellation Examples

Check out some of these tessellations made with regular polygons!

Tessellations

Geometry Practice

Check out these two sites for more practice with identifying and sorting quadrilaterals:

Quadrilateral Quest

Shape Shoot

Gary Paulsen

Here are some links to read more about Gary Paulsen. Try to learn as much as you can about his life from these websites. This is going to help us think about his writing. Record the info you learn in your RRJ!

Short Scholastic Bio

Trelease bio

HM Bio

Short goodreads bio

Paulsen Interview Bio

Random House Publishing Interview

A Visit to the Apothecary

Western Frontier

On the eastern seaboard, many apothecaries had customers who were wealthy, and the shops reflected this in their rich architecture, beautiful bottles of various sizes, wall-to-wall shelving and drawers, and huge sunny windows that fronted the streets.

On the Western frontier, apothecaries (the buildings) came in all shapes and sizes. Some were little more than shacks.

One of the popular utensils they used was a pestle and mortar, for crushing and mixing substances. (The pestle is the pounding tool, the mortar is the bowl.) They were often made of stone, marble, or brass—hard enough to crush the medicine without crushing fine particles of the tools themselves. The tools had to be extremely washable, where residue from one medicine would not mix with another. Apothecaries sometimes ground uncooked white rice in them to clean them—repeating the procedure until the rice came out completely white.

Apothecaries also had very fine tools and trays where they made their own pills, before pills were manufactured by machine. As you can imagine, precise measurement was extremely important, and keeping each pill exactly the same size was an art form. Apothecaries had their own precise system of weighing mass in liquid and solid form.

Until about 1900, most medical recipes were written in Latin. Latin was the universal language, understood in Europe and America.

Oregon Trail

Use these three websites to investigate the dangers you will soon face and what you need to prepare for them.

Site #1

Site #2

Site #3

**For site number 3, stay on the site. Do not use the videos or other links.