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progress monitoringDIBELS DIBELS is a registered trademark of Dynamic Measurement Group, Inc. Visit our website at www.dibels.org. Revised 5/17/10 DIBELS® Next Student Materials Daze/Level 6 Progress Monitoring Roland H. Good III Ruth A. Kaminski with: Kelli Cummings, Chantal Dufour-Martel, Kathleen Petersen, Kelly Powell-Smith, Stephanie Stollar, and Joshua Wallin Dynamic Measurement Group, Inc. ® Copyright 2011 Dynamic Measurement Group All rights reserved ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 1 progress monitoringDaze 1 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 1 Page 1 Taking Great Nature Photographs Many people love looking at a beautiful landscape or at waves crashing into rocks on a wind-swept beach. They may want to capture a distant need bit of it on camera in order to share blur how it with others. Because the subject is remember when so beautiful, they think, “This is rather whole sure to be a wonderful photograph!” However, pictures taking puddle a good nature photograph can be tricky shooting majestic . If you're not careful, a majestic will help mountain may look like a distant pebble. Wind Crashing Placing waves can easily become a gray vibrant light blur , with the seagulls above them appearing as strategy afternoon tiny specks in a washed-out sky. The attention frame vibrant colors of real life may not wonderful make be easy to capture in the photo. It is forest subject also easy to have all of your subjects you're weed come out too small. By following a beauty few uncluttered simple suggestions, you can learn to come take trunk photographs that capture the true beauty of nature detail achieve . The first thing to consider is what washed richer type of camera you have available. Some cameras photographers few are more suited to taking certain main kinds tricky of pictures than others. When shooting digital landscapes because , ©2011 All rights reserved professional photographers use special camera lenses that can even sky capture more far-off details than an ordinary learn focus camera. In a sense, they can “ reeds landscape grab ” more of the scene than a not narrow photos lens can. Some digital cameras have a special love shortly setting for shooting landscapes that can help shore if achieve the same effect. Cameras with this so same setting are best at shooting sweeping landscapes. Autumn Luckily Others , you don't need a special camera to take lens become a good nature photograph! It just depends sidewalk interesting on what you want to take a important picture beautiful of. If you have an ordinary camera great center , one strategy is to concentrate on capturing background sense smaller scenes and details. Rather than the whole photograph subjects forest, focus on an especially beautiful sun swept tree . Don't take a picture of the whole take lifeless lake; instead, focus on some interesting reeds bit capture by the shore. You may be surprised create finally at how effective and interesting a effective close photo can be when it focuses on a small surprised photographs detail. It is important to consider the position beach looking of the objects in the photo. Making Narrow One sure the background is uncluttered keeps the certain attention depends on the main subject. Also, placing the waves scenes subject off Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 1 Page 2 ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 1 Page 3 STOP center often creates a more consider interesting concentrate photo than if it is right in the leaves middle luckily of the frame. The right light ruin far can make or break a photograph. Shooting at mid-day easily good when the sun is high in the neighborhood sky warmer can lead to photos that look pebble camera lifeless and washed out. It can also create think lake harsh shadows that will ruin a late photograph just . Many professional nature photographers shoot only snail effect early in the morning or late in the crashing afternoon instead , shortly before sunset. Colors look warmer and richer best may when the sun is low in the mountain thing sky . Finally, remember that a great nature right photograph position may be as close as the careful simple backyard or a neighborhood park. Look for use following interesting colors and details, such as a ordinary break snail crawling up a tree trunk or autumn more early leaves in a puddle. Even a don't weed too growing in the crack in the often life sidewalk can make a beautiful photo. By paying harsh details attention to the suggestions above, anyone can growing suggestions take a great nature photograph. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 2 progress monitoringDaze 2 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 2 Page 1 The Pharmacist Pharmacists are experts in the science of medicine. They know about the kinds of drugs laws benefits that are used to treat all than types many of illnesses. They are also familiar with positions laws colleges that regulate their use. Because pharmacists know government research how medications can be used to interaction heal will certain illnesses, they help people get shipped well new and maintain a healthy lifestyle. People well care must go to college for many years to familiar much become pharmacists. They have to study math, as store nurses well as sciences such as chemistry and sold biology due . Like doctors and other workers in the go field costs of health care, they learn about information jobs how the human body works. They need to are know more what medicines are used for a variety bones medications of things, such as broken bones or the work workers flu . Each day, pharmacists give people the records study medicines that doctors advise them to take. In types if some cases, they will need to discuss a patient's such cases medicine with the doctor who ordered it. An chemistry gives important aspect of a pharmacist's job is working often science with people. The pharmacist gives the can analyze customers the items they have ordered. They years pharmacists also explain how much of each drug made should learn ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 2 Page 2 be taken. People who come into the doctors pharmacy body need to know how many times do sales each day and at what time of helping cover day they should take their medicine. Pharmacists health then effects let people know about any side hospitals put effects that the drug may cause, such as say traditionally aches and pains, fatigue, or runny nose. They kinds experts also tell people to call their doctor help risk if they have more serious side effects. Ensure Let Patients can put themselves at risk if the doctor's careful staff orders are not followed exactly. One of the most maintain because important jobs of a pharmacist is to college make people sure that patients taking more than contributing followed one drug don't have adverse effects due to the explain interaction safe of medications. Another job of the happy pharmacist companies is to order and store medicines. Drugs Based Illnesses are shipped from the companies where they are themselves one made. Pharmacists must keep careful records of which drugs know then they have in stock and which is are available sold out. It is also their used some job to ensure that all of the drugs they orders give fatigue out are safe and pure. Most pharmacists times another work in drugstores. Other pharmacists work in hospitals drugstores most or nursing ©2011 All rights reserved homes. There, they keep treat professional records of patient information for the doctors and nurses occupied plans . They may also tell the medical sciences become staff about new drugs that are going to patients enjoy be available soon. More and more pharmacists are customers nose working in new positions not traditionally regulate other occupied by pharmacists. Some work in sales or give conduct should research for groups that make medicines. Aches Military Others work for health insurance companies to advise use work out plans to cover the cost of certain use stock drugs or to analyze the costs and need benefits parts of medications. Even though these pharmacists important do efforts not give out drugs based on a insurance groups doctor's order, they still have to know get how biology the human body works. People who going coming work in sales for drug companies often stay give runny information to doctors and other pharmacists about new tell there drugs that are coming on the market items variety . Other positions include working for colleges, the things government pains , the military, or for professional pharmacy associations math medical . Most pharmacists say that they enjoy not community helping people in their efforts to stay healthy adverse discuss and happy. Contributing to a healthy take don't community is one of the best parts of their pure job come . G6/Progress Monitoring 2 Page 3 STOP ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 3 progress monitoringDaze 3 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 3 Page 1 The Appalachian Trail Twisting and turning from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail is among the longest footpaths in the United States. It crosses fourteen states as it delight see winds its way through deep forests, across beginning beautiful streams , and over craggy mountains. People come from all camps then over to hike it. However, few of them crosses walk other the trail from beginning to end. That's Study Vehicle hardly a surprise, because the entire days nature trail measures more than two thousand miles least pathway long . Hiking the complete trail would take about purchase five stores million footsteps! Still, to see even a clearing tiny dotted portion of it is to experience journey so some of the most beautiful landscape in the United States. The trail traveling way began as one man's proposal in 1921. Benton McKaye pictured crafts most the trail as a ribbon connecting winds length several mountaintop camps where people could relax and enjoy how purchased nature. His vision included hotels, inns, whose study simply centers, and villages where people could work working matter together farming the land, making crafts, and taking next eat care of the forest. At the forests time connecting , there were several hiking clubs whose one greatly members owned and looked after ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 3 Page 2 hundreds of challenging has miles of hiking trails. These clubs were all hotel protected in favor of the idea. However, it centers wasn't hikers until 1930 that work actually began on the because trail trees . Once it started, it progressed quickly. Hiking Wasn't Was club members, working without payment, did able almost five all the construction, clearing bushes and nearly trees walk and marking the pathway. Although the inns no public , study centers, and villages were never constructed restaurant come , the trail was completed on August 14, 1937. Beforehand Today Plans , nearly all the trail is on turning wonder public lands that are protected so people hike more will be able to enjoy them for needed food years to come. Every year, more than streams care three million people hike along at least a some would piece of the Appalachian Trail. Most hike for making life just a few days, but a few each inhabit heavy year hike the entire length of the pass long inns trail. That can take months of spends traveling looked , so these hikers must make careful plans completed mountaintop beforehand. Most begin in March or April at the supplies southern be end of the trail. A few starting start vision in the middle, hike to one its end ribbon of the trail, then return to their starting southern begin point by vehicle and hike to the just weary other end. The trail itself has campgrounds and careful complete shelters but no stores where food and campgrounds make other supplies can be ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 3 Page 3 STOP purchased. Hikers must ramble relax purchase these in towns that are dotted along the trail. Taking Sometimes Decide the towns are as much as trail three although days apart. For some hikers, reaching a town welcome quickly is a welcome relief. Towns provide them the hotels people opportunity to stay in a hotel or once eat together at a restaurant if hikers are payment weary club of the challenging life of the trail. Man's Other Every hikers will simply pass through, but all portion today must decide what supplies will be needed longest animals for the next segment of the long journey challenges . Despite the challenges, people greatly enjoy progressed hiking town the trail. They come for the included entire fun of hiking the craggy green mountains of the eastern tiny thousand United States. They enjoy the opportunity to almost ramble mountains through heavy forests that are crisscrossed by streams return much . They delight in seeing the animals that opportunity several inhabit the wilderness along the trail. No middle away matter how much or how little time began each crisscrossed hiker spends on the trail, all of them come landscape work away with a sense of wonder. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 4 progress monitoringDaze 4 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 4 Page 1 City of Rocks Picture in your mind a large, busy city. Do you see clusters of office buildings some tourists of different shapes and heights, forming columns followed nuts of steel and glass rising above displays busy visitors streets? Now imagine the same shapes, but a erupted little hundred smaller and made only of stone. Settled Some West of the structures are low to the areas picnic ground , and others are towering columns. The rocks geological built form arches, and there are passages that look height pieces like streets and alleys. This strange come city weather is in the middle of a didn't high pause desert. Instead of busy traffic, the formed only arches sound you hear is the whispering of the streets service wind between the columns of rock. Unlike other lived volcanoes cities, this one was made by nature structures trees , not by humans. This place exists in the saw southwestern rocks desert of New Mexico, near a town named big large Deming. It is the City of Rocks State Park. Visitors of same strange all ages come to climb the rocks and travelers designated walk among them, imagining that they see familiar form traveling objects in the fantastic rock shapes. Enchanting Ground Sometimes they see the outlines of people or animals began rain . Many of the rock formations have estimate been boulders named for the ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 4 Page 2 shapes they resemble. Peaceful Being Geologists estimate that volcanoes erupted thirty-three grains holes million years ago, spewing out fiery pieces of fireplaces rock geologists and ash. This rock and ash maintained spring settled and formed a layer of hard towering can lava , which cracked and splintered as the lava cooled clusters traffic . Over millions of years, blasts of recently sand today and rain driven by strong winds, as widths well kind as heat and cold, eroded the evidence softer journey spaces between the hard columns of stone overnight imagine . It took all of this time and mysterious weather settlements to bring into being the rock set shapes city as it looks today. The rocks vary looks other in height and width. Some reach fifty resemble stagecoach feet, and others are close to the ground outlines others . On average, the columns of rock close are eighteen fifteen to thirty feet high, with varying blasts park widths. Archaeologists have found evidence of settlements state later from the Mimbres Nation, who lived in the area little ash hundreds of years ago. Holes in time some have of the rocks show that they had found driven been used to grind seeds, nuts and grains alleys tables . Later, members of the Apache Nation settled in the region middle wanted , followed by the ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 4 Page 3 Spanish who arrived waters five well hundred years ago. In the mid- thirty visit eighteen hundreds, explorer John Bartlett passed through the wind region vary . He didn't see the City of Rocks. Instead, he forming saw took some stone pillars close by that he animals see called the “Giants of the Mimbres.” Also at about this busy time playground , the amazing scenery, as well as the hot only cities springs, began attracting visitors who were smaller traveling bathe west by stagecoach. A hotel was built instead scramble for travelers who wanted to pause in the middle one climb of their journey to bathe in the ages camping spring waters and visit the mysterious rock many eroded city . It was only recently that the walls region mind has been designated a state park. At this sometimes park objects visitors can spend the day or passed fifteen camp overnight. Camping areas are nestled among sound width trees and stone walls with picnic tables and fireplaces explorer mid in peaceful, private spots. A garden that friends is arrived maintained by the park service displays many cacti great types of cacti. ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 4 Page 4 STOP The City of Rocks is a great hear are park to visit with friends and cracked place family . Tourists of all ages can scramble over the bring boulders office in a kind of geological playground fantastic set hundreds against an enchanting desert and big blue was low sky. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 5 progress monitoringDaze 5 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 5 Page 1 The Boy Who Made a Difference John Benson Junior, or “Benny,” was a boy from Alaska. When Benny was a young boy, he left importance many home and began attending a mission twelve school voted . Here, he would be given one of the most also join incredible opportunities of his life. At this ten time mechanic , Alaska was still a territory. It life even was not yet one of the states of the U.S. Many Strength Small people, including the territorial governor, were working finally mission hard for the cause of statehood. The was governor opportunities had been to Washington, D.C., where he had grades seen final all of the flags of the forty-eight states song enter . He felt strongly that Alaska needed working its simple own flag. When he returned home, he state's persuaded became a group of army veterans to continued organize sky a flag-designing contest for children who were reminded reviewing in grades seven to twelve. Contest here rules scholarship were circulated to schools throughout the streets territory later and news of the competition soon statehood arrived explained at the school Benny attended. He youngest was honor in seventh grade at the time that he decided given respect to enter the contest. Benny's design was strongly large a simple one that showed stars on a blue referred ideas background. It featured ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 5 Page 2 seven small stars in the flower shape territorial of the Big Dipper and one large news star stars that represented the North Star. Benny explained that the shape make blue field represented the Alaska sky and the color father contest of a favorite flower, the forget-me-not. The North Star native years referred to the future of Alaska, which would persuaded not be the northernmost state in the Union when would group it was finally admitted. The Big Dipper, or Great Bear, as the Alaskan natives sent spent called it, symbolized strength. Benny's design was veterans one own of ten sent from his school for the watch exhibition final judging. Considering he was only in overnight forgotten seventh grade, he was also one of the use began youngest students to enter the contest. After designing reviewing be all the entries, the judges voted to citizens use hometown Benny's design. Overnight, Benny became a seen students celebrity for the people of Alaska. He ambassador received including a gold watch that showed his work flag hard emblem and a scholarship to use after most high gold school. Years later, Benny's description of his can design received became part of the Alaska state song returned time . After graduating from high school, Benny returned where northernmost to his hometown to work with ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 5 Page 3 STOP his field father first . Later on, he decided to use his high symbolized scholarship money to learn to become a description left diesel mechanic at a school in Seattle. He spent featured incredible most of the rest of his life been listening working as an airplane mechanic in Alaska. Benny Benson was were died not forgotten and for the rest of his anniversary life fifth he was admired as an unofficial organize flags goodwill ambassador for Alaska. He was the arrived admired first Alaskan native to join the Elks Club, and admitted many represented streets and schools were named for him. He was an Alaskan who attending because brought honor and respect to his people. Even Young Felt after Benny died he continued to emblem difference be honored, including in 2002 when an natives exhibition held celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the flag seventh school was held. The state's governor reminded citizens unofficial blue of the importance of listening to the ideas considering home of young people, because, as Benny Benson needed still showed , even a young boy can make a difference graduating entries . ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 6 progress monitoringDaze 6 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 1 Penguins at the Mall One day in early February, Esteban's little sister Ana watched a movie about penguins in school. At dinnertime that night, she couldn't told stop pointed chattering about it. She decided penguins were early have her favorite animal and drew lots of pictures rock blocks of them to display in her smiled room invertebrate . Esteban wanted to do something special for Ana for her perfect dinnertime birthday in March, and he knew there exhibit watched was a colony of penguins living in their each province attended of Alberta. These penguins lived together at the famous day size West Edmonton Mall, an enormous nearby shopping center. Esteban's here where parents agreed he could take Ana there to tugged see never the penguins, and Esteban's father recalled close getting overhearing that a baby penguin had hatched look there choice recently and that there had been a world contest caverns' to name it. Ana was excited, and smiling arrives brainstormed with Esteban about what the winning name giggled headed might have been. A few weeks could skin later , Ana and Esteban headed on down to the West Edmonton Mall. Ana had himself never surprised been there before, so Esteban showed her time some ships of the sights the huge shopping knew special center ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 2 had to offer. The size of forty-eight hatched name city blocks, the mall was the largest in North America and some eyebrow one of the biggest on the entire lived planet friendly . It had its own fancy hotel, next amusement giggling park, and even water park all contained others see within it. Esteban and Ana didn't there have dad time to see all those things, but they recently did something stop by a life-size model of the Santa Maria, one overhearing also of Christopher Columbus's ships. They also attended model later a sea lion show, where the meeting trainers looked talked about the animals while they performed than amusement . Esteban found himself fascinated by the walls creatures winning , and was surprised by how friendly they were own little . Ana giggled at meeting one of them touch afterwards one . Finally, it was time for Esteban and Ana to visit together offer the sea life caverns, where the stop mall penguins lived. They stopped by the caverns' invertebrate guide parents touch pool first, where an attendant center showed display them how to gently handle the visit drew underwater animals and plants without hurting them. Esteban excited been pointed out a starfish to Ana that means all was latched onto a rock, and they following planet both felt its cold, bumpy skin. But Ana that's cold couldn't be distracted for long, even by a preening finally starfish . She tugged on Esteban's sleeve, ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 3 and, might caverns smiling , he walked with her into the distracted next lion room. There were the penguins! Ana living was enormous enchanted. She ran around, following first agreed couldn't one penguin and then another, getting as close even afterwards as she could to the exhibit famous seemed walls . Esteban had to admit that the joy penguins wanted were cute. Penguins were preening, chasing after pictures fish sister , and jabbering with each other. They seemed how younger to be in their own world. “Esteban, look fascinated turned at that one!” Esteban turned and saw huge smaller the penguin Ana was indicating, which was a eye little animals smaller than the others, and had a gently white chasing eyebrow over each eye. A guide animal saw looking where he was looking. “That's one of our tenth younger were penguins,” said the guide. “It was the tenth be show penguin born here, and we held a fish favorite contest to name it.” “My dad told me about that,” held felt said Esteban. “So, what did you name it?” “Dayo,” said the jabbering did guide . “It means, joy arrives.” ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 6 Page 4 STOP Esteban looked over at Ana, who was penguins latched cooing and giggling at the penguin. He recalled smiled city . “I think that was a perfect choice take sleeve ,” he said. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 7 progress monitoringDaze 7 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 1 Jockey's Ridge State Park It's a hot, sunny day and a surfer is on her board, descending a gentle slope. Suddenly, the board wobbles to the herons left there , and the surfer is tossed off the lucky has surfboard . She tumbles a few times, then she gets gentle day up and retrieves her board. This surfer fill facilities doesn't have a drop of water on her, examples though first , because she isn't surfing in the waterfowl ocean protected . She's surfing the sand dunes at Jockey's Ridge State Park, in North Carolina. Jockey's Ridge islands year is the highest sand dune park in the trucks eastern changes United States. It is part of a set surfers months of low islands that separate the surf mainland pipers from the powerful waves of the Atlantic Ocean. The surfboard park mice has three very different areas. The called first features is the dune area itself, which is left powerful often called “The Living Dune” because it is are always air changing with the shifting winds. The winds dunes suddenly area is very harsh, not only back hot because of the winds and the shifting distinctive leaves sands but also because of the high heat violent other during the summer months. The temperature of the sands millions however can reach one hundred thirty degrees, making isn't open it impossible for plants and animals to make osprey been their homes here. ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 2 The areas around the dunes tubes lightning , however, have a variety of plants and animals often tracks . At the base of the dunes, sunny protected hollow from the winds and heat, some look might grasses can grow, and water accumulates. This area fish foxes features several types of trees and dunes bushes especially , including live oaks and red cedars. Effects Three Separate of wind and salty air from the make sea effects stunt the growth of the trees, causing low come them to look like bushes. Animals finely mainland such as foxes, raccoons, and deer make their hotter homes can in this area. The area where the Roanoke River empties reach slope into the sea has cattails, saw grass area water , and other plants. It is a cautioned habitat hognose for waterfowl and several kinds of united fish once . Pelicans and osprey, once almost extinct, stunt live daytime in abundance here. They share the waters storms reptile with herons, sand pipers, and snowy egrets impossible million . If you're hiking the park in the harsh dune early morning, you might be lucky enough to some see changing tracks made by lizards, mice, or the early hognose highest snake, which is a harmless reptile that pelicans leaves temperature a distinctive S-shaped track in the sand saw also . ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 3 The amount of sand in the walkways dunes years at Jockey's Ridge State Park would fill six million shifting dump wear trucks. The sand, which is mostly from quartz you're doesn't rock, has been finely ground by grow have millions of years of wind and water. The dunes do than bushes not blow away because the wind cedars causing changes directions, blowing the sands back and wind forth visit . Lightning often strikes the sand during ground blowing violent storms that blow in from the ocean live trees . The storms cause hollow tubes called ocean fulgurites be to form in the sand. Visitors can few harmless see examples of fulgurites at the park it's always headquarters. The park is open year animals round various during the daytime only. There are picnic sea rock shelters, but no overnight camping facilities. Shoes Information Dump panels along park walkways describe the form see various animals and plants found in the though morning area . Visitors are cautioned to wear shoes during the different hot grasses summer months, since the sand temperature base panels can be much hotter than the air salty temperature strikes . Jockey's Ridge State Park is an exciting place to visit round homes , especially for sand surfers. So grab ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 7 Page 4 STOP your board camping hundred and come along. The surf is always plants descending up at Jockey's Ridge. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 8 progress monitoringDaze 8 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 8 Page 1 Stargazer When we look up into the starry sky, we can see countless specks of light. Some of those specks form shapes we more suit can recognize, such as the Big Dipper. Is glasses became there a larger pattern to the stars? Do Astronomy Were the points of light relate to same one addition another in special ways? Astronomers have been school ways trying to answer these questions for small many no years. Toward the end of the questions nineteenth did century, astronomers began to use very specks large conclusions telescopes to study the sky. These had grew scientists huge mirrors that could gather very small stopped bits world's of light. For many years, the have when world's largest telescope was based on Mount Wilson in the U.S. It had a one astronomer lawyer -hundred-inch mirror. When the telescope stars was day put to use in 1919, a nineteenth scientist other named Edwin Hubble went to work at Mount Wilson. Surface Using Light this telescope, he became the best- known suggested another astronomer of the twentieth century. Hubble had relate telescope not always been an astronomer. Indeed, when he bang much was in high school, he was not known developed even an outstanding student. He was better known dirt way as an athlete who once held ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 8 Page 2 the recognize student high -jump record in Illinois, where he record accurate grew up. At the University of Chicago, Hubble studied made held math and astronomy and he also played on the school's one century basketball team. After college, Hubble won a Rhodes atmosphere only scholarship to Oxford University in England. There he using math studied law and he even became a lawyer law named for a short time, but it been did many not suit him. After serving in the army standing shapes in World War I, Hubble stopped practicing law and returned bits do to the study of astronomy. Many astronomers mirrors studied of Hubble's day depended on complex mathematical each use calculations and theories for their conclusions about the universe looking years . Hubble, though, relied on large numbers of end special observations and measurements made using the large telescope long measuring at Mount Wilson. His theories fit the orbit facts played and as a result, his conclusions were universe measurements very powerful. Hubble discovered that our scientist galaxy could , the Milky Way, is not the only galaxy in the tends such universe . He also observed that all the huge powerful stars and planets in the universe, in our facts galaxy away and others, were not ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 8 Page 3 STOP standing still but best instead based were moving away from each other at be is great speed. In addition, they all seemed to others career be moving away from the same point. This suggested was realized that the universe had originated in a single depended very place. Because all the stars and can jump planets in the universe were behaving like place moving bits of dirt after an explosion, the complex theory largest was called “the big bang” theory. Hubble, who behaving died calculations in 1953, made many more discoveries during his long get high career. Many of the ways of time began measuring things in astronomy today are the college won result of his work, but he realized that theory there inch were limits to what we can observe serving died from the Earth's surface, even with answer much points larger telescopes. This is because the Earth's big atmosphere look tends to get in the way, like looking gather observations through foggy glasses. A way to sky observe hundred from outside Earth's atmosphere had to relied observe be developed. When the world's largest and most explosion today accurate telescope was launched into orbit around the Earth in 1990, outside the atmosphere pattern great , scientists had no trouble coming up with a name fit discovered . They called it the Hubble Space Telescope. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 9 progress monitoringDaze 9 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 9 Page 1 Born to Win All parents have great dreams for their children and some go to great lengths to support and train their children from a very early age. That is exactly what Mike Agassi just advantages did with his son Andre. When Andre always was not just an infant his father would too have hang tennis balls over his crib. He competed traditional gave him miniature tennis rackets as toys and a full eighteen earned -sized racket for his second birthday. During Andre's girl game early school years, his father helped him tennis funds hit three thousand tennis shots every day. Later Especially Honors , when Andre was a teenager, his father day own sent him to a special tennis perhaps four school . Mike's ambition for and support of his son was train paid off and Andre Agassi became teenager one appeared of the world's greatest tennis stars. He needs would was the fifth male player to win the Grand Slam, which showed includes no all four of the major tennis helped titles more in the world. He has won hot dozens himself of other tennis tournaments and earned millions presented rock of dollars. Andre was no doubt influenced lengths shots by his father's ambition, but he lasted support was also probably influenced by his father's also athletic tournaments ability. Before immigrating to the United States ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 9 Page 2 and extraordinary settling school in Nevada, Mike competed as a cheeseburgers there boxer for his native country of Iran in the Olympic Games. Even Boxer Thoughtful with these advantages, Andre's path to greatness father athletic was not always easy. He became a air professional hair tennis player at the age of star sixteen easy and won a million dollars by the conditioner time ability he was eighteen, but an injured wrist miniature fifth interrupted his career. Then, there was the problem knows early of his public image. Andre was problem one became of the first players to have racket rock full -star length hair, wear an earring, and compete rededicated champion in colorful clothes, as opposed to the gave did traditional white clothing worn by tennis players. On the court sometimes wife , Andre was bold and sometimes a get brat bit of a brat, and off the head court community , he appeared reckless. His marriage to years movie morning star Brooke Shields lasted only a few wrist worn months , and his tennis game all but little disappeared immigrating . Instead of being defeated by these country program events , Andre rededicated himself to tennis. He stars began interrupted a rigorous conditioning program, and stopped conditioning eating installed so many cheeseburgers. He ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 9 Page 3 STOP shaved his sixteen balding began head. He began to win again and public white presented himself to the world in a age again much different way. He was more gracious and sent thoughtful rigorous . His focus was not only on others bedside himself and his tennis career, but also on clothing children giving back to others, especially children with court instead special needs. He founded the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation, which funds stopped hit a school and homes for children in infant greatness need in the Las Vegas community. Andre became known go disappeared as an extraordinary friend. When the hospital returned child of a friend was in the unnoticed length hospital , Andre showed up at three in the is morning clothes to sit by her bed so her great father opposed could get some sleep. When the little friend influenced girl complained of feeling hot, Andre left many second and returned with a window air one two conditioner he had bought and installed it at her world being bedside . This sort of kindness has not only focus gone unnoticed. Among his many honors, Andre was feeling probably named “Most Caring Athlete” of 2001. Andre and his birthday wife could , who is also a tennis champion, have has months two children of their own. Who sort back knows ? Perhaps their two children were born to win few special , too. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 10 progress monitoringDaze 10 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 10 Page 1 So You Want to Be a Pilot Choosing a career is an exciting part of being young. A popular option that many young top people is dream of is being a pilot. Programs When Flying planning a career as a pilot, it's exciting thinking good to start by deciding which all executives kind of pilot you would like to be getting displays . If you think about it, what pilots adventurous lot really do is carry different kinds of cargo students pilots from place to place. This cargo may schools learn be anything from people to letters and planes pilot packages . Pilots who work for the airlines carry eating health passengers to and from airports in addition many both cities around the world. Airlines fly to transport numerous maintaining destinations all over the world and you book training may even have an airport in your fly be city . Cargo pilots work for companies that stick attend transport supplies and products. Their cargo may be challenging having anything from electronic equipment to fresh seafood have products . When you order a book from the Internet, the planning numerous book may be shipped to you on a plane idea letters . As you might imagine, delivering goods on time work pressure is an important part of this colleges job equipment . Some pilots fly military aircraft. These pilots place such carry both supplies and troops to simulator military plan ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 10 Page 2 bases around the world. Some planes used carry goods by the military can carry very air instructor heavy objects like land vehicles or even companies taking helicopters . Many large companies use their own if planes stay to transport their executives to meetings plane condition all over the world. Pilots who work for these companies guide interest must have a lot of flying troops get experience to be hired, and they are conditions how usually paid well. Many pilots who work for whether read large companies say that getting to spend understand specialize time in other countries is the best think part first of their job. An interest in best different science is a plus when you begin your flight may currents training. Pilots must understand topics such as college very air pressure, which allows planes to stay in the air, and city aircraft how weather conditions affect air currents. To cockpit guide kinds their planes, pilots need to be kind able exercise to use computers and other electronic good regular equipment . For example, they need to know vehicles hired how to read all the displays on the job instrument ready panel in the cockpit. You should plan renewed allows to get a college degree before you passengers it's apply for a job as a pilot. Some Are Cities ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 10 Page 3 STOP colleges have programs that specialize in computers flight include training. These programs include courses in science someday know and math. Students who attend schools with flight own would programs can actually learn what it's like to practice destinations fly a plane. First, they practice virtual flights objects airlines using a simulator until eventually they might science are ready to start practice flying with an panel electronic instructor before taking a plane out independently. In addition really certainly to their education, pilots also must math able be in top physical condition. If you usually delivering are thinking of being a pilot someday, certificate it's airport a good idea to start eating a good can world diet and having an exercise program you can meetings instrument stick to. Before being hired, pilots have deciding important to obtain a certificate from a therefore doctor part stating that they are in good virtual shape paid , or fit to fly. This certificate fresh must time be renewed on a regular basis. Helicopters Flight Therefore , maintaining your good health will also be important begin packages . Being a pilot is an exciting and challenging order weather career. Whether you transport passengers or popular cargo example , you will certainly have an adventurous heavy job being ! ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 11 progress monitoringDaze 11 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 11 Page 1 A Famous Architect When he was a young boy, Frank Lincoln Wright wanted to be an architect. He had pictures of famous buildings hung flowing himself all over the walls of his recognized forms room . When he was a child, his grew school mother gave him glue, paper, and cardboard and way encouraged space him to explore shapes and forms. She also sheltering great gave him blocks to help him home become learn about three-dimensional space. He later stairs changed tired his middle name to Lloyd, in honor fifteen created of his mother, the person responsible for his firm early soon interests. When he was fifteen, before he big even glue finished high school, Wright entered a came university career to begin his formal studies. Later he moved southwest formal to Chicago, where he worked as a architecture second draftsman in several architectural firms. He soon became all appear the chief assistant to the most lectures famous encouraged architect of the day, Louis Sullivan. Wright moved learned if a great deal about architecture from also working worked with Sullivan. Sullivan believed that the architecture earthquake sturdy of America should be based on American studies needs open and ideas instead of European traditions. After a few central begin years, Wright set up his own differed firm promoter , and later practiced from ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 11 Page 2 his home. By this time make designing , Wright was developing his own unique style death set of architecture. It was this style that used design would eventually make him a famous architect finished still traditions remembered today. Wright's style differed from the only traditional would style of the time. He often used were generation blocks of concrete in the design of his known structures designed . Rather than building boxes with stairs in the day keep middle , Wright designed houses with low, sheltering architectural style rooflines , open inside spaces, and a central fireplace spaces explore . He thought that these houses fit thought winters better on the open prairies of the American makes mother west . With Wright's designs, the style that would been structures become known as the Prairie School of Architecture was made born writing . Over his long career, Wright designed over one often self thousand houses and buildings, about half of which architect were cardboard completed. His most famous home sits in a beautiful learn rooflines wooded spot. The design makes the collapsing home attractive appear as though a stream is changed born flowing out from under it. Wright was especially young deal proud of a hotel he designed in Japan. Very Based Today strong concrete was used in the half beautiful campus , open hotel to keep it from collapsing high safe if there were an earthquake. When a established years big earthquake ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 11 Page 3 STOP shook the land, the Imperial Hotel draftsman walls withstood the quake. Wright's designs were not learned better only attractive, but sturdy and safe. In addition practiced owned to being an architect, Wright was a fine uncle has self-promoter. He made himself into a star name given by writing books and giving lectures cold whenever not he was not designing buildings. He created eventually room a foundation and workshop where young, aspiring than beautiful architects could study with him. Wright's first prairies gave workshop was on land owned by his withstood later uncle in the Midwest, but as he university foundation grew older, he tired of the cold winters strong long and established a second campus in the three southwest working . By the time of his death, Frank Lloyd Wright had chief become wooded a great architect. He has been recognized child even around the world for his unique style hung building and modern designs. He came a boy long pictures way from glue and paper and middle cardboard inspired . He had given the United States a several new west , American form of architecture and inspired a unique generation there of architects. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 12 progress monitoringDaze 12 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 12 Page 1 Mayor Mom Today in school, we're having a discussion about local government. Our teacher is explaining that our very makes city has a government that makes and neighborhood collection enforces laws. It also hears and decides some make people court cases. Mr. Billings goes on to government problems say that people living in cities depend on diligently say municipal , or city, governments for numerous necessary beginning services pastimes . This includes police protection, fire protection, and levy enforces garbage collection. I am beginning to squirm a little talks elected in my chair, because I know leads local what's coming next. Some of my classmates are things have looking at me as Mr. Billings leader convinced talks about the mayor. That's because the ugly mayor allow of our city is also my mom tell community . I'm not embarrassed, because I know my just passed mother has a very important job, but I am all says a little self-conscious. Mr. Billings lease lot says that as the elected leader of our city's contribution mayor government, the mayor appoints people to advantage enforce be the laws and can also veto better laws agree passed by the city council. In our should city create , the mayor leads the weekly city council coming live meetings. She prepares the agenda for each town's explaining ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 12 Page 2 meeting and enforces time limits for mother marathon discussions during the meeting. The mayor helps solve some asks problems and makes this city a flower good asked place for us to live, Mr. Billings more we're summarizes . Then he asks, “Who can tell about a specific started important contribution our mayor has made to know something improve this community?” My friend Victor raises his garden hand give . “The mayor helped my neighborhood get access place favorite to a vacant lot and turn it into a then garden public ,” he says. He explains that his hand neighbors everyone thought the empty lot was ugly. It was governments neighbors full of garbage, yard debris and overgrown chair helps weeds. The neighbors started a petition in which they pretty includes asked the mayor to allow them to lease self isn't the lot for a reasonable price. They wanted debris think to clear the lot of waste and summarizes debris little and create a vegetable and flower also annual garden that all their neighbors could share. The access turns mayor fought diligently to allow the neighborhood to rent petition told the lot. She finally convinced the encouraged could city council to agree with this plan. My mother overgrown today had told me this story before. I don't am reasonable really pleased to hear Victor describe it weekly so prepares that everyone could hear about her goes efforts explains . After Victor's story, Mr. Billings ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 12 Page 3 STOP turns to me and job asks back me to give some more information about the mayor transportation appoints . I decide I should share something since I know thought half her pretty well. I'm proud of my mom's became discussion achievements, so it isn't hard to talked each think of something to say. I think specific living back to all the projects my mother has so jogging talked about during dinnertime since she became numerous use mayor. I say that the mayor is well mom always thinking of ways to make this a next information better city. She encouraged council members to approve depend improve a levy to improve public transportation so hears vegetable that it's easier to use the efforts county decides bus system. She also took advantage of county meeting one of our town's favorite pastimes, jogging, and coordinated city court an annual half-marathon to benefit teacher local not charities. When I think about all of the important made when things my mom has done as mayor, I know municipal hear I don't have to be self- members conscious good , just proud. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 13 progress monitoringDaze 13 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 1 Digging for Facts Imagine that you and some friends are helping to plant a garden. Your shovel slices deep into the archaeologists ground pocket and brings up another heaping mound of dirt came imaginary . But this time, you spy something take unusual studying in the dirt. You carefully dump the notes dirt complete onto the ground and pick up the object begin cooking , turning it over in your hand. The object interesting has bothering a particular shape to it, with a heaping pattern you've on the sides and a sharp pattern point ancient . It's an arrowhead, you realize. You've found occurring remains an object that was created many object years no ago. If you put the arrowhead in your naturally special pocket and take it home, not bothering to ask easily are questions about it, you're simply a finder earth some of objects. If, on the other hand moved years , you begin to wonder who might have deep having made the arrowhead and what it might site study have been used for, you're starting to think fill dig like an archaeologist. Archaeology is the degree made study of ancient people and their relationship to their environment gone utensils , or the world around them. Archaeologists computers are houses scientists who try to answer questions ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 2 about pool college how ancient people lived. They use clues to large find there out who the people were, where they originally things spotted came from, and what challenges they faced blanks garden . Their work is especially important when times no if written records were left behind by those objects close ancient people. Even when written records are sharp leads available , though, they don't always tell us archaeology enough very . Archaeologists can help fill in the another sticking blanks by studying objects left behind long after the written people try are gone. These objects may include tools exactly places , cooking utensils, weapons, and the remains of brings tell buildings and houses. Most archaeologists prepare for their simply work clues by getting a college degree. They satellites much usually begin with classes, but eventually help out at “ because prepare digs .” These are places where objects are it's dug tech up, in much the same way you dug up your may high imaginary arrowhead. The digging is done very detailed slowly classes and carefully, so as not to something destroy most any objects. Some items are very walls ecofacts delicate , having been in the ground for created hundreds think or even thousands of years. Archaeologists slices keep items detailed notes about the objects and about though finding exactly where they were found and ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 3 what things types shovel were nearby. Found objects that are ago easily shape moved, such as tools or weapons, are used scientists called artifacts. Objects that are not space dirt so easily moved, such as the walls of a sometimes house water or a pool for water, are has called not features. Still other objects that are naturally originally relationship occurring, like seeds and animal bones, are destroy getting called ecofacts. Archaeologists carefully examine all these hundreds often clues to try to create a complete picture find other of how ancient people lived. Archaeologists spy often answer work with other types of scientists. They use create where high-tech methods such as x-rays, carefully special features chemical tests, and computers. Sometimes they know imagine sides exactly where to look for objects faced look because there have been other digs close by. Can Occasionally Other times they use written records and dis maps too . Occasionally a dig site is spotted from the tools air buildings or even from space by satellites that world mound take detailed pictures of Earth. But archaeologists still home x-rays depend on luck, too. Sometimes an action especially digging as simple as sticking a shovel or a people spade found into the earth and finding ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 13 Page 4 STOP something way ask interesting leads to the discovery of a same large arrowhead dig site. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 14 progress monitoringDaze 14 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 14 Page 1 Overcoming Fear Many people do not like to speak in public. For one boy, trying to avoid unable later public speaking became a habit. He disliked public elected years speaking so much that he refused to leader do disliked so, even when he had to for school many slavery . Who was the boy? His name was involved is Daniel Webster and he went on to made become refused a lawyer and political leader. He was lawyer college also an admired public speaker. Daniel Webster was very brother's born in New Hampshire in the late seventeen four hundreds becoming . His parents were farmers who worked while son very hard. Webster was one of nine invited wanted children , but illness in his childhood meant he strong five was unable to work on the farm with his when late siblings . Instead, his parents hired many tutors to overcome appointed help teach their son and they sent him to children one other of the best schools in the completed boy country . They wanted to give their son the training best nominee possible education. Later, Webster went to education college childhood in New Hampshire. He joined a group in college that prevented made credited him practice speaking in front of work other moved people. Through these experiences, he mastered his seceding fear case of public speaking and was so opposed successful successfully that soon after his college graduation, farmers don't officials in his college town invited him ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 14 Page 2 to do give remembered the annual Independence Day speech. Webster studied office law annual and completed a legal apprenticeship. Before he was name able seventeen to finish, though, he took a nation history job as a schoolmaster to help support his hard joined older brother's educational pursuits. Eventually he returned to his town legal went training. Soon, he set up a legal regulations practice avoid near the town he grew up in and group trying also became involved in politics. His reputation as a skilled public schoolmaster lawyer and a public speaker began to instead spread think and he was even elected to the U.S. House of Representatives three because older of his opposition to the War of 1812. The war farm were was between Britain and the United States, over become members regulations that had hurt the shipping trade in New England. After serving can trade two terms in Congress, Webster moved to Boston. He achieved rights serving national fame as a lawyer and grew public eventually speaker and also successfully represented Dartmouth College in a represented case hundreds before the U.S. Supreme Court. He also meant served still in Congress once again, this time as a took representative practice from Boston. Only a few years sent began later , he was elected to the U.S. Senate. ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 14 Page 3 STOP Over the next issue so few years, Webster made three attempts to gain parents best the office of President. He was never habit reputation successful in becoming a nominee; however, President William Henry Harrison few appointed legal Webster as Secretary of State. Four studied years successful later, he served again in the Senate, and though experiences then returned as Secretary of State. While because still siblings serving in the Senate, Webster was credited again school with having prevented Southern states from seceding secretary much from the Union over the issue of slavery illness representative . Webster opposed slavery, but feared the defense breakup spread of the Union over the issue. He speech achieved is remembered for his strong defense of the having worked nation over states' rights. In 1957, over a want terms hundred years after his death, he was educational even states' named as one of the five schools most job outstanding Senate members in U.S. history. The death next front time you don't want to speak in only front be of others, think of Daniel Webster and finish know teach that it is a very common tutors never problem that can be overcome. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 15 progress monitoringDaze 15 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 15 Page 1 The Mayo Clinic You've probably heard the saying, “Every cloud has a silver lining.” It means that difficult situations often result hospitals difficult in changes for the good. It is that's species hard to believe that a disaster such telescope victims as a tornado could have a saying silver taught lining. Yet that's exactly what happened after a farm tornado beds struck the rural town of Rochester, Minnesota. Many Library Jokes townspeople were injured by this powerful tornado school good . Even worse, the town did not branch have opened a hospital. The injured citizens had to heard be were treated in temporary shelters. To prevent this from happening needed few in the future, a group of believe nuns set decided to build a hospital in the town sons boys . They hired William Mayo, a doctor who had first so helped the tornado victims, to direct the boys' project part . Soon the people of the town deaths could adolescents go to an organized hospital whenever they yet needed special care. The doctors on staff at the new townspeople other hospital were Dr. Mayo and his two new rural sons, William and Charles. A few years literature group after the hospital opened, the elder Dr. Mayo worse disaster retired . He left the hospital's operation in the hands loved was of his children. Today, the Mayo Clinic elder success is considered one of ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 15 Page 2 the best hospitals in the learning world quiet . The foundation of the clinic is a very staff saying by the elder Dr. Mayo, “No end soon one is big enough to be independent of teach one others .” This philosophy of teamwork and cooperation is citizens work a large part of the success of the Mayo Clinic. Throughout their could not lives , brothers Charles and William were very many parents different from each other. Charles loved practical plant helped jokes and was very social, whereas William was doctors operation quiet and reserved. As adolescents, their lives brothers family's were similar to many other teens of their injured clinic day . They went to school in the years often mornings and helped out with chores on the temporary family such farm later in the day. The boys' sharing doctor parents valued learning and taught their happened sons two about science. Their mother set up a forty telescope exactly on the roof so she could teach silver mother them about the stars. She also its helped stressed them learn the names of all the plant both cooperation and tree species on the farm. From their father decided hospital , they learned about chemistry and anatomy. The known town boys also learned Latin at a special today school similar and read classic literature from the family's tornado have library. ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 15 Page 3 STOP As they grew up, the foundation best brothers became known for their kindness, and they philosophy earned lives the respect of the people in their town thousands all . During the first years that the Mayo Clinic family was changed in operation, the brothers stressed to the hospital even show staff the importance of working as a team small training . Over time, the hospital became known for classic its means sharing of ideas among its doctors. Patients Today Time , it has a branch for training new complex retired doctors and a library for both doctors be hired and patients. Charles and William continued their anatomy is work for the Mayo Clinic until their deaths. At the end care hands of their lives, the hospital had changed cloud social from one small building with about struck kindness forty beds to a large complex of prevent every buildings that treated tens of thousands of patients also whereas each year. From tragedy to success, the Mayo Clinic just chemistry day goes to show that there is, in fact considered grew , a silver lining behind every cloud. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 16 progress monitoringDaze 16 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 16 Page 1 China's Great Wall Over two thousand years ago, the emperor of China wanted to find a way to make the borders of his country more secure. He decided to build a giant wall frequent sturdier , which would keep out invaders. The wall would stretches building go on to take millions of people added ancient and several centuries to build. Today, over people two miles millennia later, much of the wall sections still sweat stands. It stretches almost four thousand brick monument miles , longer than the distance from California to New York. While Mountains Often it no longer retains its original stone build function as a barrier, the Great Wall of China remains a thick popular only site for visitors who want to see feet much and experience a piece of an guard ancient warn world. China's winding wall is no lit came mere fence, as it is full of passes more visit and watchtowers. Fires would be lit from the varied than wall to warn of oncoming attackers. While the width stands attackers and height of the wall vary grasslands grew greatly at different points along its path, on all uneven average it measures from fifteen to thirty feet needed decorated wide and around twenty-five feet tall strength path . The shape and size of the simple frame wall have varied through the centuries. Before the mix walls emperor decided to build one great wall, built considered disconnected walls of different ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 16 Page 2 lengths and directions were terrain experience scattered across China. In building the wall, these layers repairs sections were connected and expanded until at one while wonders point, the wall was large enough that it transported took function one million soldiers to guard it. If Usually Were you followed the wall across China, you earth see would visit all the varied landscapes the million required country has to offer. The wall stretches from trip increased deserts to hills, from grasslands to mountains. The wall itself broke followed is formed from a wide range of the winding way various building materials available in China, from five ones popular as simple as mud and reeds to stand bricks tool that continue to stand centuries later. Many Go Mere of the materials used to make the wall made points came from locally available sources, as the uneven almost ambition terrain made it difficult to get building disconnected point supplies to the appropriate sites. Different building used materials piece required different methods. The walls made out of giant want mud and dirt stood around six inches thick scattered no and had several different layers. They dirt tall often had a wooden frame that was its packed meant with the earth. These walls broke down quickly wanted year and needed frequent repairs to keep ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 16 Page 3 STOP them standing site vary . The sturdier walls were usually a mix ropes longer of stone or brick. After baking in kilns fifteen several , the bricks would often have to appropriate greatly be transported to the building site with the not help ones of animals and ropes. As the fires size emperors built up the wall, it became sites help not only a useful tool for defense, but full baking also a monument to their strength. The towers six empire provided increased security and added to China's soldiers quickly image as a powerful empire. As the wall grew various remains and changed through the years, sections inches added still later were more decorated and imposing security be than the earlier sections. The wall is now formed seeing considered to be one of the keep millions human -made wonders of the world. Visitors to the wall sources available can see the results of centuries of get care take , sweat, and ambition. Today, the wall is find great no longer meant to keep visitors out of China. To emperors many bricks of the millions of people who methods thousand make the trip to China each year, seeing expanded shape the wall is what brings them in. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 17 progress monitoringDaze 17 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 17 Page 1 Through the Castle Jeremiah was excited to be miniature golfing with his grandmother. They arrived at the front office, excited rented struck clubs and balls, and headed over to the course buildings barrier . Jeremiah was amazed when he saw it. Scattered Actually Drew everywhere throughout the course were small sculptures first miniature and buildings, including a windmill, with blades took some that were actually rotating. Near another will went hole , there was a statue of an prepared acrobat started performing a flip, and still elsewhere was forward back what resembled a tiny stream with a small direction discussing bridge arching over it. It was like rotating being scattered in a shrunken fantasy world, and Jeremiah hang traveled couldn't wait to get started. On the grass doors peered by the first hole was a castle fantasy thinking , constructed so that the ball was bridge prevented asked from going around it. Inspecting the castle nice shot , Jeremiah saw three doorways going through it. Unless Begun Doorway he hit the ball directly through one clubs halted of the doorways, he wouldn't be amazed able realized to get past the building and into the hole than unless . Jeremiah decided to aim for the middle faster elsewhere doorway. He placed the ball ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 17 Page 2 on the halting green if to prepare his first shot. When Jeremiah rolled took complimented a swing, the ball zoomed forward, front eagerly much faster than he had intended. It struck zoomed building the side of the castle, bounced scorecard back jogged the way it had come, and demonstrate halted wouldn't farther back than where it had begun door can . Jeremiah laughed as he realized this swing wasn't another going to be as simple as he had grandma envisioned gotten . He decided to hit the ball said much didn't more softly until he had gotten the middle grass hang of it. After several attempts, Jeremiah stream managed saw to get the ball to stop right having thought in front of one of the castle arrives maze doors. He peered through it and get took bounced a swing, and the ball rolled locate world gently through the door. As Jeremiah hovered anxiously hit prepare , the ball plopped in. “Nice shot, Jeremiah,” his cheerfully grandmother castle complimented him. On his grandmother's turn, she stared hole tiny at the course, thinking hard. Then she more aimed be sideways at the wall! Jeremiah was including come astonished as the ball bounced off two plopped barely walls and traveled straight ©2011 All rights reserved through the castle watched doors farther and into the hole. “How did you straight going do that, Grandma?” he asked. “It's all about angles course traveling , Jeremiah,” she said cheerfully. “The ball will headed performing bounce off the wall at the three managed same angle it struck it.” She drew a perfect same diagram on the back of her scorecard to explained demonstrate walls . “If you know what direction you want turn bounce the ball to be traveling when it wait eager arrives at the door, you can calculate simple angle where to hit it.” She explained some fun more inspecting until Jeremiah thought that he understood what to office rented do . They jogged over to the next hole couldn't able , which had a small maze barring the know balls way . Jeremiah and his grandmother looked it over eagerly grandmother six , discussing what they thought would be the calculate most acrobat successful strategy. Jeremiah's grandmother went first, and her stared attempt how hit the first barrier before halting, having where still barely gone six inches. They both laughed astonished statue , and Jeremiah's grandmother prepared to try again all were . Jeremiah decided that even when they didn't aim directly succeed, miniature golfing was fun. He inches would watched his grandmother putt, eager for his even own do opportunity to locate the perfect angle. G6/Progress Monitoring 17 Page 3 STOP ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 18 progress monitoringDaze 18 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 18 Page 1 Finders but Not Keepers It was summer, and Gloria and Andres were excited about summer vacation. A family tradition was to spend the left first knew month of the summer vacation traveling. Are Occurred Almost as soon as the final school trip bell description had rung, Dad would attach the seemed symbol pop -up trailer to the bumper of the wanted family walls van, the kids would fill the chosen explore trailer with camping gear, Mom would pack snacks consider pleased for the road, and off they would pipestone belonged all go, on a new adventure. Gloria, Andres, and their parents honored proudly had chosen several national and state parks vertical very to visit during their trip this prairie school summer . They were going to see rivers, mountains massive stream , prairies, grasslands, and forests. Part of the family just fun would be to see anticipated sights. Day Possibly Unique the best part of the trip, weapon two though , would be the unplanned sights and park morning adventures . Something unexpected always occurred on these ahead been trips . The family's first destination was Palisades State Park, near Garretson, South Dakota. Before they flat arrived ranger at the park, Andres asked what a palisade informed generations was. Gloria searched for the definition in ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 18 Page 2 a could lofty dictionary the family always kept in the car when parents and proudly explained that a palisade was bumper final a line of lofty cliffs. Andres smiled searched vacation at his sister, who always seemed to welcome snacks be a step ahead of him. Gloria's gear definition make was a perfect description of the legend visit scenery the family witnessed when they arrived at the be passed park . A deep gorge, formed over many years park's features by a rushing stream, cut through a flat where rushing prairie. The whole family was awed by the massive dictionary area , vertical walls of the cliffs. Once the begun years family's campsite was in order, Andres and Gloria peace several took off to explore the area a part short adventure distance from the site. After only a minute almost family's or two, Gloria spotted a bright fun commandments red stone on the ground, which she picked prairies attach up and stuck in her pocket. The car next form morning, the park ranger stopped by the family's cut would campsite to welcome them to the park going showed . He informed them about the park's great many stuck features and activities. Gloria showed the picked soon ranger the stone she had found, and he responded summer always that she had found something very formed arrived unique . The stone was pipestone, which he said parks road Native Americans consider sacred and have bird used next for centuries ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 18 Page 3 STOP to make peace pipes. The minute ranger centuries explained that according to Native American legend do nations , in ancient times the Great Spirit location came bright to visit the Native people. The Spirit came in the form ground anticipated of a large bird and told pack all palisade the Indian nations that this unique van red no stone was a symbol of the Native people already new . The Spirit told the Indians that the made stone trips belonged to all of their people and that times no explained weapon could be made from it. The line distance ranger explained that the legend had been passed national stone down for many generations. The Great Spirit's commandments red used regarding the stone are honored to this day kids something . When he left, Gloria knew what she sacred wanted found to do. She returned to the location were pop where she had found the stone and campsite was placed it on the ground. It pleased her to unplanned destination think that the family had already had their first responded returned unexpected adventure, and the trip had people only rung just begun. ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 19 progress monitoringDaze 19 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 19 Page 1 The Competition As soon as the car was parked, Felicia bounced out, scurried to the trunk to grab her suitcase, and then hurried inside the airport. Her dad followed behind her. Waiting inside the waiting window airport were her three teammates and coach. They were strengths couldn't all getting ready to fly to a one excel national math competition, for which they had particular been scenery preparing all year. Felicia's math teacher had every paper invited her to join the team back in November. Felicia had year always tried enjoyed math, and thought working together with her fun excited classmates and going to competitions would be fun others' problems . So, every Saturday, Felicia and her team so competitions gathered to practice. In January, they won swarming session their district competition, and a month filed later gave they won the state meet. Now Felicia and her teammates brief staff were on their way to represent their state do hallways at the national competition. Felicia couldn't wait way sure . On the airplane, Felicia tried to aspired pencils take a nap, but found she was held too even excited to get to sleep. Instead, she won unpacked working some of the materials her coach had worked competition given her to work on. She had ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 19 Page 2 a packet needed level of problems from previous national level competitions knew already and worked through them. Finally, she just grab other watched the scenery out the window as the plane day how approached for a landing. The team welcome make arrived at their hotel. Swarming all over the followed focused lobby and hallways were kids from all over the breath country time . Everyone was friendly and eager to refreshed meet write other math competitors. By the time she calm headed got to her room, Felicia had met sleep watched teams from all over the country. The competition deep hand hadn't even begun, and Felicia was great already instead feeling exhilarated. The team met for want one went final practice that night. The competition in the everyone materials morning would consist of an individual round and a hadn't team thought round. Felicia and her teammates all arrived aspired would to do well in the individual round formulas district , but it was in the team round that they hoped next trunk to excel. They knew each others' particular some hurried strengths and how to work together to found microphone solve the tougher problems. They were confident that the work months breakfast of practice would pay off. Their plane pay practice session went well, so Felicia and her suitcase quizzed teammates headed off to get some ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 19 Page 3 STOP sleep so too was they would be refreshed for the next ready months day. In the morning, they quizzed each join hotel other over breakfast on the facts and walked formulas finally they would need to use during the get later competition . Felicia tried to remain calm. It car airport would be her job during the team hoped previous round to write down the final answer, and she begun needed director to remain focused if she didn't preparing want invited to make a mistake. Felicia's team filed seats lobby with all the other competitors into the then take great ballroom where the competition would be held morning bounced . They found their assigned seats and now made unpacked sure they had enough pencils and parked scratch schedule paper. Finally, the director of the classmates teams competition walked onto the stage and to the microphone getting begin . He gave a brief speech of competitors welcome given and outlined the schedule for the tougher stage day . Then he signaled the staff to hand kids got out the tests. Felicia took a deep feeling wait breath. The national math competition was about to begin round all . ©2011 All rights reserved STOP Practice 1 After playing in the dirt, Sam went home summer was to wash her hands. Practice 2 On her way home, she chair sleep saw an ice cream truck. Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ C: __________________________ I: __________________________ AS: __________________________ G6/Progress Monitoring 20 progress monitoringDaze 20 ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 20 Page 1 Boiling Springs State Park Visitors to the state of Oklahoma have their pick of things to do. First of all, the state has waterskiing rented many interesting historic sites to visit. In was addition park , there are mountains, lakes, and streams that parks are fireplace part of scenic recreation areas. For jobs more campsites than fifty years, the state has outdoor lakes developed parks around these lakes and streams. Fishing Very Reunions , boating, and waterskiing are just some of the caps just outdoor activities on hand for visitors to the deer region state parks and recreation areas. There are fifty-two state years surface parks and recreation areas in Oklahoma. One pool favorite small is Boiling Springs State Park. The park is in the want time northwest corner of the state and was television built groves by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the nineteen-thirties. The CCC, as it was same bike known, was created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His park's idea bar was to give work to people during a time attracted modern when jobs were hard to find and to built okay protect the nation's natural resources at the midst same find time. Millions of acres of federal and state not linens lands were improved through the work of the CCC. Boiling Springs Park common has golf several natural springs, but the springs trails don't more actually contain ©2011 All rights reserved Keep going G6/Progress Monitoring 20 Page 2 hot, boiling water. The strong area tables , churning flow of water below the turkey resources surface of the sandy-bottomed springs just streams makes only the water look as if it beautiful chance is boiling. The springs are not the only fifty mountains natural attraction in the park. On a hike events cookware through Boiling Springs Park, you'll see a small but there very shop beautiful lake. You'll hike in the visitors midst scenic of walnut, oak, and elm groves full open do of lovely, old trees. If you're alert attraction first , you might see a deer or idea even protect a rabbit. If you are very company offers quiet and take your time, you might hike also many spot a wild turkey or skunk. Motto Lovely Bobcats , beavers, and badgers live in the prefer badgers area as well. The springs and abundant acres eaten wildlife attracted early Plains Indians to this region. The water park recreation campgrounds contain fifty campsites along with work soon several shaded tent sites. For visitors who prefer bobcats don't more modern accommodations, there are several hard small you're cabins available for rent, each with a elm fireplace created , television, dishes, cookware, and linens. For tent large are groups of visitors, the park has ten stay abundant bunkhouses and a common building where ten nation's meals can be cooked and eaten. ©2011 All rights reservedG6/Progress Monitoring 20 Page 3 STOP Throughout the nature park snack there are many picnic tables. There are kinds millions three open-sided buildings that can is be building rented for family reunions, company picnics, and boating adventure other large events. There is even a park contain known swimming pool, a snack bar and a swimming people public golf course very close to the park. After a sandy shaded picnic and before a swim in the pool even sites , you can hike or bike on state picnic one of the park's three scenic hiking beavers trails boiling . These include a nature trail that hot offers wild visitors a chance to see many bottomed federal kinds of plants and animals native to the park. Bunkhouses It's Have not likely you'll soon forget a springs skunk visit to this state park. If you native sided want to be sure that you'll remember the also dishes adventure , the park has a gift shop activities swim where you can buy t-shirts, caps, and other picnics three souvenirs of your stay in Boiling Springs. 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