Name: ________________________ Homebase: ________________ Period:

______________
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Due: Friday, April 10, 2015
_______ Writing Center (Analytical Writing- Quiz Grade)
Create an Accordion foldable. Your name, writing center, and homebase
on the back of the foldable. Using "The Fortunes of Fragrance" on pg. 382385 in small book and the stories for the week in the Literature Anthology
book. You will need to write at least 3 sentences for each flap. Make sure
that you include text evidence.
Title: How people use natural resources.
Section 1: Protection- How do natural resources provide protection?
Section 2: Comfort and Pleasure - How do natural resources provide
comfort?
Section 3: Trade- How do we use natural resources in trade?
Section 4: Conclusions
________ Social Studies/ Science Center
Make a Time Line- Research natural resources in the United States.
Using the internet, create a list of natural resources that are found in the
United States. Also include which states they are found in. You will create
a t-chart. List the natural resources on one side and the state in which
they are found on the other side.
__________ Word Study Center
Read each Latin root and its meaning.
Write a word that uses the Latin root and then use that word in a
sentence. Complete the chart below.
Latin Root
Sim
Duct
solv

Meaning
Make like
To lead/ to bring
To loosen

Word

Sentence

________ Reading Center

Read the passage below and answer the questions.
Ghost Bird
In 1951, fifteen-year-old David Wingate examined the limestone cliffs of the
Bermuda Islands. He was looking for the Bermuda petrel, or cahow, a seabird once
so common that the Bermuda night sky was filled with its eerie cries. The bird,
thought to have been extinct for three hundred years, had reportedly been spotted
twice. Wingate, a bird lover and Bermuda native, had joined a team of naturalists
who were hoping to confirm the reports. For days they searched, the team found a
cahow chick tucked into a crevice, along with a few other cahow nests.
Wingate became focused on saving the cahow. After leaving Bermuda to
study zoology at Cornell University in New York, he returned in the late 1950s to
search the islands for the bird. He found eighteen nesting pairs, most of them fairly
healthy, on several remote islets. Though the cahow still existed, Wingate knew
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that its current breeding habitatburrows created in fragile limestone cliffswas

threatened by hurricanes, rising sea levels, and erosion.
Over a period of years Wingate, as Bermudas, conservation officer,
transformed an elevated,
uninhabited fifteen-acre Bermuda island that was unpopulated, called Nonsuch,
into a haven for this
endangered species. He restored native flora and created dozens of sturdy, soilfilled burrows, providing the cahow with safe nesting places. Speakers played
prerecorded cahow calls to attract the first birds. Soon, there were eight pairs of
cahows nesting on Nonsuch Island.
Wingate feels, however, that there is no sound more beautiful than the
haunting cries of the cahowthe unbelievably reappearing ghost bird, as he calls
itagain filling the Bermuda night sky. In 2009, eighty-six nesting pairs on
Nonsuch Island produced dozens of healthy chicks that left theyre burrows to fly
out to sea. Many of these birds returned to Nonsuch to make nests of their own.
1.

A. NO CHANGE
B. Days passed as they searched,
C. They spent days searching,
D. After days of searching,

2. Given that all the choices are accurate, which one most clearly emphasizes how close
the cahow
was to extinction when Wingate began his project?
A. NO CHANGE
B. some of the pairs having made sturdy nests in the cliffs,
C. likely the cahows entire breeding population,
D. more cahows than he had expected to find,
3.

A. NO CHANGE
B. years, Wingate, as Bermudas conservation officer,
C. years, Wingate, as Bermudas conservation officer
D. years Wingate, as Bermudas conservation officer

4.

A. NO CHANGE
B. area of Bermuda that was relatively high up,
C. place that was soon to be a haven,
D. Bermuda island,

5.

A. NO CHANGE
B. feels, therefore,
C. feels, likewise,
D. feels

6.

A. NO CHANGE
B. there
C. their
D. its

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