Teachers and homeschool parents, please share this with your classes. Using this guide will make your subjects more relevant and interesting to your students and will encourage creative thought. If you or your students have any suggestion or ideas for these teacher guides please email Sarah Nachin – [email protected] This guide is based on the newest Florida Standards for grade school through high school.
Activities and Questions based on the Nov. 1, 2024 – Nov. 7, 2024 issue
Mathematics activity for High School: (MA.K12.MTR.2.1) Demonstrate understanding by representing problems in multiple ways.
Study the information about the City of Brooksville budget summary on page A-2. Then put the information about revenue, ONLY, into a bar graph. Show the amount and source of each type of revenue. You can do this by hand or use Microsoft Word.
Extra Credit: Do the same for expenditures.
Composition Activity for High School: (ELA.11.R.3.2) Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
Read the article on page B-6 about raising money for hurricane victims. Then write an essay of 375 words or more paraphrasing the article. You may include quotes from the article but put those in quotation marks. Ninety percent or more of your essay should be in your own words.
Social Studies activity for Middle School: (SS.8.A.1.1) Provide supporting details for an answer from text, interview for oral history, check the validity of information from research/text, and identify strong vs. weak arguments.
Read the article on page A-1 and A-9 about “Wardy” Smith. Then answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1.What obstacles did Mr. Smith have to overcome in his early life and how did he overcome them?
2. What are two of his most significant accomplishments that he made to help the economy of Hernando County.
3. What ideals and characteristics did Mr. Smith have that made him a “Great Brooksvillian?”
4. In what ways do you believe that his grandfather influenced Kerry Smith in a positive manner?
Extra Credit: If you know someone (grandparent, other relative or a friend of the family who grew up in Hernando during the 1950s – 1960s, interview that person and write an essay of at least 350 words based on your interview. Ask questions similar to the following:
1. When were you born?
2. What was school like when you were a child?
3. What did you do for fun?
4. Name some of the biggest changes you’ve seen between the time you were a child and the present day.
5. How many people were in your immediate family?
Science activity for Middle School: (SC.7.L.17.3) Describe and investigate various limiting factors in the local ecosystem and their impact on native populations, including food, shelter, water, space, disease, parasitism, predation, and nesting sites.
Read the article on page A-7 about the mosquito problem in Hernando County. Write an essay of at least 350 words explaining the causes of this problem, the effects on the environment, people, and other living things, and how the problem is being fixed.
Composition activity for Elementary School: (ELA.3.C.1.4) Write expository texts about a topic, using one or more sources, providing an introduction, facts and details, some elaboration, transitions, and a conclusion.
Read the article on page B-1 and B-5 entitled “One Note at a Time.” Then, summarize the article in 300 words or more, using the five guidelines listed above. The majority of the essay should be in your own words. You can use direct quotes from the article, but be sure that you put quotation marks around the direct quotes.
Math activity for Elementary School: (MA.3.AR.1.2) Solve one and two-step real-world problems involving any of four operations with whole numbers.)
Study the Calendar of Events on pages B-2 and B-3. Count the number of events, INCLUDING the seven advertisements. Then, calculate the answers to the following questions. In your calculations, be sure to include the ads:
1. What percentage of events were ads and what percentage were just listings?
2. How many outdoor events and educational events are there all together? If an event is educational and is also outdoors, count it twice.
3. How many music events were there and how many craft events were there? What was the difference in quantity between the two? Which kind was listed more times?
4. What percentage of events were about veterans?
5. What percentage of events were held at the libraries?
If you wish to submit any of your compositions from this week to the newspaper for us to consider publishing, please email to [email protected]. Be sure and include your name, age, grade level and school that you attend. If you’re home-schooled mention that. Submission is not a guarantee that your work will be published. Submissions may be edited due to space restrictions.