Ricardo has owned his car for 3 years.  His odometer reads 49,239 miles. If he drives the same number of miles each year, how many miles is this per year?

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Mirabel and her family are camping at the lake. Mirabel and her sister walk to the jetty on the lake. The last sign reads “JETTY,” but Mirabel notices the second T is upside down. Is the second T a translation, reflection, or rotation of the first T?

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Write a fictional diary entry about an exciting event that has happened during your lifetime.  Make your entry sound convincing using facts, as Great-Grandma Breckenridge does.

Use your research skills to locate 5 interesting facts about a subject in the story, like the Rosetta Stone, and share them.  Also, write about what research tool you used and how you found your facts.

Write a review of The King in the Kitchen.

Imagine you are a theater critic. Look back over the play to recall main events.

Begin your review with a short summary of the play.  Tell what you liked or didn’t like about the play. Give reasons to support your opinions. Tell if you think others should see the play.

Sixty-seven students are going on a field trip to the zoo. The principal needs to decide how many cars and vans are needed to transport the students. Each car can seat 5 students and each van seats 9. The principal would like to use the fewest number of vehicles possible.  How many cars and how many vans should she use?

_____________car(s) and __________van(s)

Remember to explain how you worked the problem.  The explanation is just as important as the answer.

In “The Gymnast”, the narrator describes a single event in his childhood. Think of a memorable event in your own life and create an autobiographical story of the event.  Stories should be at least two paragraphs for full credit.

Joan made a pie that she cut into six pieces. She began by cutting the pie in half across the middle. What is the name if the line segment of her first cut?

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Jill is cutting out fabric. The top of the material measures 1 ft, and the bottom measures 3 ft. Each side measures 2 ft. What shape is she cutting?

Very large and very small numbers in science are often written using bases and exponents. For example, the sun is approximately km from 1.5 X 10⁸ Earth. Write this number in standard form.