Q: It is almost summer time. Spring has been very long and very rainy. Winter was very warm and very long. In the winter the snows falls on the ground. It covers all the grass. It covers all the trees. It covers all the flowers.

In the winter, the chipmunk goes to sleep. The chipmunk works all summer long to gather enough food for the winter. The chipmunk gathers berries. The chipmunk gathers pine cones. The chipmunk drops the pine cones off our roof and rolls them to her favorite hiding place. Boom! Boom! Boom! The pine cones sound so loud when they drop off the roof!

The snow melts away in the spring. It is off the ground in our yard by the month of May. In June, there is still snow on the mountains. The snow on the mountains is still there until July.

In May the grass starts to grow. In June, the flowers bloom again. In July, we go swimming in the lake.

We get to play all summer. We do not have to go to school. We do not have to gather pine cones for food. We get to play outside and we get to have cook outs. We are not chipmunks. We are children.

Our mom makes us lemonade in the summer time. Our mom takes us to the beach. Our mom lets us have a lot of campfires. Our mom mows the lawn.

It is summer time and now we play for 90 days and the chipmunk works for 90 days.

In the winter we work and go to school and the chipmunk gets to sleep.

I am glad it is summer and I am glad that I am a human child and not a chipmunk. I am glad that we get to be awake through all the seasons.

I like spring. I like fall. I like winter. My favorite time of all is, for sure, summer!

Answer the following questions:
1. What season is coming?
2. When does the lawn grow?
3. When does the animal sleep?
4. How many months are named?
5. When do we not go to class?
6. What are we?
7. And what do we do in winter?
8. What do we drink?
9. Who does things for us in summer?
10. Does she cut the grass?
11. What was spring?
12. And winter?
13. What shrouds everything?
14. What does the chipmunk do when it warms up?
15. What makes the loud sound?
16. Who drops them?
17. Where are they taking them?
18. What are they falling from?
19. What else do they collect?
20. What is great about being human?
A: 1. summer
2. May
3. in the winter
4. three
5. summer
6. humans
7. we work and go to school
8. lemonade
9. Our mom
10. yes
11. it was very long and very rainy.
12. Winter was very warm and very long
13. snow
14. in the spring
15. The pine cones
16. The chipmunk
17. her favorite hiding place
18. from off our roof
19. berries
20. we get to be awake through all the seasons.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Edith Cavell was born in a little English village. She was a clever; hard-working girl and did well at school; especially in music and French. After she left school; her first job was to take care of the children of a rich family in Belgium . The language they spoke was French; so she found that her school studies were useful. She could understand them easily; at the same time she taught the children to speak English and play the piano. After hearing that her father was seriously ill; Edith returned home to look after him. She then decided to become a nurse. Afterwards for five years she worked in an English hospital where she proved to be highly professional at her job. A Belgian doctor was so impressed that he invited her to his country to organize a training school for nurses. The First World War broke out in 1914 and Edith Cavell's school of nursing became a hospital. She stayed there to look after the sick and wounded soldiers . Edith treated them with kindness. Between November 1914 and August 1915 she secretly helped about 200 wounded soldiers and prisoners escape from the Germans. Later the German army found out what Edith had done and they arrested her. Finally; the Germans killed her; but they could not _ . A tall statue has been built in Trafalgar Square; London; in honor of the brave English nurse.

1. Who is the main character?
2. Last name?
3. Where was she born?
4. Was she clever?
5. Especially in what?
6. and what else?
7. What was her first job?
8. Where exactly?
9. DId Edith hear about her father?
10. What happened to him?
11. Did she go back to look after him?
12. What did she decide to do then/
13. Where did she work?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Edith
2. Cavell
3. in a village
4. Yes
5. music
6. French
7. to take care of children
8. in Belgium
9. Yes
10. unknown
11. Yes
12. become a nurse
13. in an English hospital

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Erden Eruc has been rowing across the Pacific Ocean in a rowboat since he left California on July 10, 2007. He has been heading for Australia with only birds, fish, and sharks ever since. Crossing the Pacific is only part of his journey. Eruc has decided to go all the way around the world using his own energy. He will row, bike, walk and climb the world without help from any motors at all. His plan includes climbing the tallest peak on six of the continents along the way. For the first part of his trip, he bicycled 5,546 miles from Seattle, Washington to Mount McKinley in Alaska and back, walked 67 miles to base camp and climbed 20,320 feet to McKinley's peak. Now in the second part of his adventure , he is rowing to Australia. Why would he try to go around the world this way? He explains that he wants to encourage kids to dream their dreams and get to their own goals. He wants to show kids that there might be hard parts along the way, and sometimes they might not even get to that final goal. But they can have adventures and learn a lot along the way. When his trip around the world takes him across land, he enjoys meeting people---especially children. He has already visited many schools and shared his story. Eruc encourages all kids to set their eyes on a goal and not give up. He says, "with goals, we will make progress, and we will be farther along than when we started, even if we don't get to some goals. That's called life!"

1. Is Eruc crossing the entire world?
2. Is he using any sort of motor?
3. How is he getting around?
4. What methods?
5. What was the first part of his trip?
6. What is the second part?
7. Why is he doing this?
8. Does he visit schools?
9. Is he going to do anything along the way?
10. What is he going to do?
11. When did he leave for his trip?
12. Where did he leave from?
13. How is he traveling?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. yes
2. no
3. using his own energy
4. row, bike, walk and climb
5. Crossing the Pacific
6. he is rowing to Australia
7. he wants to encourage kids
8. yes
9. yes
10. meet people
11. July 10, 2007
12. California
13. using his own energy.