Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 1
o Reread pages 2-4 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World to someone at home. Be prepared to
share something else you learned about Meg
Lowman.
o Choose 3 academic and 2 scientific vocabulary
words to add to your glossaries. Choose from the
list below:
features
determine
inferences
gadgets
biodiversity
eureka
samples
relationships
herbivory
conservation
canopy
base
treetops
environmentalist
intrigued
fascinated
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Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 2
o Reread pages 4-8 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World to someone at home. Be prepared to
share something else you learned about Meg
Lowman in class tomorrow.
o Add to the Meg Lowman KWL chart in your
journal.
o Choose 3 academic and 2 scientific vocabulary
words to add to the glossary in your journal.
process, pressing, list, determine, communicates,
context,
Page 4: sorts, specimens, collections, permit
Page 7: bromeliads
Page 8: orchids, blossoms, preserve, solution,
three-dimensional form, pickled, acid-free,
herbarium, pluck, sailed aloft, trapezes, foliage,
inflatable, ascent, marvelous
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 3
o Reread pages 9-10 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World to someone at home. Be prepared to
share something else you learned about Meg
Lowman as a scientist.
o Read your synthesis statement to someone at
home.
o Choose 3 academic and 2 scientific vocabulary
words to add to the glossary in your journal.
Choose from the list below:
explain, identify, opinion, skills, supported
page 9: ascending, wonder, chatterings,
“powerhouse”, biomass
Page 10: frontier, fearless, skillful, cliffs, pioneer
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 4
o Reread pages 12 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World to someone at home. Be prepared to
share how Blue Creek is biodiverse.
o Do a first read of pages 13-16. Complete the
Close Read Note-Catcher.
o Choose 3 academic and 2 scientific vocabulary
words to add to the glossary in your journal.
Choose from the list below:
explain
biodiverse
determine
considered
Page 12
varieties
upward
unchartered
vipers
decaying
opportunities
species
teems
salamander
vegetation
altered
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paint a picture
timeless
ceaseless
bromeliads
thrive
habitats
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 5
o Reread pages 13-16 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World.
o Add to the Meg Lowman KWL chart.
o Choose 3 academic and 2 scientific vocabulary
words to add to the glossary in your journal.
sketch, match, chunk, gist, statement, justify
chunk1: functions, impact, recently, invincible, track,
previous
chunk 2: viewed, emergent growth, crowns, pavilion,
floor, walkway
chunk 3: gear, Mayan, vary, jumars, ascenders,
descend, manually
chunk 4: base, accompanied, tag, explore
chunk 5: Ormosia, fixed, project, unpracticed, securely
mosaic, negotiating
chunk 6: spans, bank, diverge, observation platform,
junction, provide
chunk 7: maze, tangled, horizontally, influences, lianas,
commuting
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 6
o Reread pages 17-20 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World.
o Add to the Meg Lowman KWL chart. Be
prepared to share with a partner tomorrow.
o Choose 3 academic and 2 scientific vocabulary
words to add to the glossary in your journal.
experiment, conducted, process
Page 17: platform, balances, snapshots
Page 19: minings, surface, acquires, notations,
populations, synchronized, theory, mesh, ongoing
processes, exclusion
Page 20: variable, control, barrier, consume, stimulate
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Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 8
o Reread pages 24-26 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World.
o Reread your synthesis statement to someone at
home.
o Choose 3 academic and 2 scientific vocabulary
words to add to the glossary in your journal.
relationship, synthesize
Page 24: disturbed, fungus, trudging, hoist, fraction,
discarded
Page 25: bromeliad, hovering, larvae, lurk, overlapping,
venomous, disturbance
Page 26: rare, lungless, inaccessibility, inhabitants
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 9
o Reread “The Wings of the Butterfly” to someone
at home. Think about what new things you are
learning about biodiversity as you read.
o Choose 4 new vocabulary words to add to the
Academic Word Glossary in your journal.
summarize, message, compare, contrast, literature
From the poem: fierce, indignantly, conceited,
sorrowfully, uninvited, wonder, behave, understand,
within
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 10
o Reread pages 28-31 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World and the Inventory Count Note –
Catcher to someone at home.
o Choose 2 academic and 2 scientific vocabulary
words to add to the glossary in your journal.
Purpose, identify, justify
Page 28: column, biologicaly diversity, situated
Page 29: portion, emerge
Page 30: inventory, estimates
Page 31: sweeps
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 11
o Reread the poem at home with someone.
o List at least 6 examples of biodiversity that the
author writes about in the poem. Be sure to quote directly
from the poem.
1.______________________________________________
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2.______________________________________________
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3.______________________________________________
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4.______________________________________________
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5.______________________________________________
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6.______________________________________________
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o Reread page 33 of The Most Beautiful Roof in the
World.
o Identify at 3 vocabulary words on page 33 that
are either new to your or important to the gist of
the text. Add these words to the appropriate
glossary in your journal.
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 12
o Reread pages 35-36 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World.
o Add any new learning about Meg Lowman to
the KWL chart in your journal.
o Add any new understandings about biodiversity
to the AQUA Biodiversity chart in your journal.
o Add 3 words reviewed in class today to one of
your glossaries.
compare, contrast, methods, quotes, evidence
Page 35: immense, inflatable, dirigible, pontoons,
numerous, qualities, consumed, grueling, lurked
Page 36: gondola, steer, linked, thorough
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 13
o Reread pages 37-39 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World and your interview to you’re a parent.
Discuss with them whether you would have taken
the spider out of the forest, and why.
o In your journal, answer the following question: As
a scientist, would you take a new species out of
the rainforest? Why or why not?
o Choose 3 academic words that we discussed in
class today to add to the glossary in your journal.
explain, point of view, scientific vocabulary, inferring
Page 37: winching
Page 39: identical, inhabitant, “the ends justify the
means”
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2
Name ________________________________
Date ________________________________
Homework: Lesson 14
o Reread pages 39-42 of The Most Beautiful Roof in
the World. As you read, use evidence flags to
mark the following passages:
 Describe how Meg Lowman conducts
research
 Describe what Meg Lowman researches
o Add 4 vocaulary words from pages 39-42 to the
glossaries in your journal.
 2 academic words that describe Meg
Lowman’s thoughts or feeling about her
research.
 2 scientific words that describe what Meg
Lowman studies.
Grade 5: Module 2A, Unit 2