1. Home Ranges What is the main purpose of this passage?
How did Jim Arnosky learn about wild animals?
In what ways are people similar to animals? In what ways are they different?

2. Question of the Day
Day 1: Have you ever heard of the term “a gift that keeps on giving”? What do you think it means?
Day 2: Where would you most like to live—in a desert, jungle, or on top of a mountain? Why? Where would you least like to live? Why?

3. Question of the Day
Day 3: If you found a 1,200 year-old seed like the one in “Seeds don’t Sleep,” where do you think would be the best place to plant it? Why?
Day 4: Why would you want to paraphrase a story?

4. Vocabulary shunned: stayed away from cherished: cared about deeply
growth: plant life growing in a certain area
windmill: a machine that uses the wind to generate power

5. Vocabulary ample: more than enough
furrows: long, deep grooves dug into soil