Comp E

     Comp Work  E     Name: _________________ 

2 points My academic goal this week is: (Write in a complete sentence.)

____ 3 points   Language Skills:  Endings

       Write an unexpected ending to a fairy tale.  This ending must be at least one

paragraph.  Remember, a paragraph usually has 5 sentences.

____ 3 points   Math -

Equation  

Write an equation that has the answer of 1,583.

Estimating ( without a calculator or actually ‘doing’ the problem:  guess! )

Estimate the answer to 995 - 312 =

Now actually figure out the answer.  How close was your estimation?

Even Numbers

Is the number 189,834,908 an even number? Tell me why or why not.

____ 10 points Social Studies:  El Paso  In which U.S. state is the city of El Paso?

• Write the answer to which state El Paso is in.
• Write 3 facts about this state.
• Draw and color their state flag into your composition book.  
• What # state is it?  
• What year did it become a state?

____ 5 points Famous Person: Dwight D. Eisenhower or Amelia Earhart 

• Who is he or she?  Why is he or she famous?  
• Research and find 3 facts about him or her that are NOT your answer from above.
• Write them in your journal in complete sentences. 

____ 2 points Art Border: 

• Design a border around your two pages of answers.  The border must be in color and have something to do with the letter “E”.

____5 points Overall Neatness, Spelling & Organization

CONTRIBUTE

Born in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons. He excelled in sports in high school and received an appointment to West Point. Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916.

After the war, he became President of Columbia University, then took leave to assume supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in 1951. Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris persuaded him to run for President in 1952.

"I like Ike" was an irresistible slogan; Eisenhower won a sweeping victory.

Suddenly, in September 1955, Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver, Colorado. After seven weeks he left the hospital, and in February 1956 doctors reported his recovery. In November he was elected for his second term.

As desegregation of schools began, he sent troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to assure compliance with the orders of a Federal court; he also ordered the complete desegregation of the Armed Forces. "There must be no second class citizens in this country," he wrote.

Eisenhower concentrated on maintaining world peace. He pointed out as he left office, "America is today the strongest, most influential, and most productive nation in the world."

He left office in January 1961 and he died, after a long illness, on March 28, 1969.

Earhart, Amelia

In 1935, Earhart made history with the first solo flight from Hawaii to California, a hazardous route 2,408 miles (3,875 km) long, a longer distance than that from the United States to Europe. She departed from Honolulu on January 11 and, after 17 hours and 7 minutes, landed in Oakland the following day. Later that year she became the first person to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City.

In 1937 Earhart set out to fly around the world, with Fred Noonan as her navigator, in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra. On June 1 the duo began their 29,000-mile (47,000-km) journey, departing from Miami and heading east. Over the following weeks they made various refueling stops before reaching Lae, New Guinea, on June 29. At that point, Earhart and Noonan had traveled some 22,000 miles (35,000 km).

They departed on July 2, headed for Howland Island, approximately 2,600 miles (4,200 km) away. The flight was expected to be arduous, especially since the tiny coral atoll was difficult to locate. To help with navigation, two brightly lit U.S. ships were stationed to mark the route. Earhart was also in intermittent radio contact with the Itasca, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter near Howland. Late in the journey, Earhart radioed that the plane was running out of fuel. About an hour later she announced, “We are running north and south.” That was the last transmission received by the Itasca. The plane was believed to have gone down some 100 miles (160 km) from the island, and an extensive search was undertaken to find Earhart and Noonan. However, on July 19, 1937, the operation was called off, and the pair was declared lost at sea. Throughout the trip, Earhart had sent her husband various materials, including letters and diary entries, and these were published in Last Flight (1937).

Earhart’s mysterious disappearance captured the public’s imagination and generated numerous theories and claims. Notably, some believed that she and Noonan had crashed on a different island after failing to locate Howland, and others posited that they were captured by the Japanese. However, no definitive evidence was found for such claims. Most experts believe that Earhart’s plane crashed in the Pacific near Howland after running out of fuel. A fixture in popular culture, she was the subject of numerous books and movies.