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Reader’s Digest<br />
By <strong>Stefania</strong> <strong>Alonzo</strong><br />
Hour 4 and 5
Table of Contents<br />
A Hard Time Falling Asleep (100 Word True Story).……………………………………pg. 1<br />
My Sister’s Hero (100 Word True Story).………………………………………..……….pg. 2<br />
Word Power Definitions…………………………………………………………………….pg. 3<br />
Word Power Game…………………………………………………………………………pg. 4<br />
Word Power Game Answer Key…………………………………………………………..pg. 5<br />
Emotional Health (Health/Medical).............................................................................pg. 6<br />
Two Most Beautiful Words…………………………………………………………………pg. 7<br />
When Are Heart Attacks Most Likely to Occur? (Who Knew).………….....................pg. 8<br />
Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day (Who Knew).………………………………………….pg. 9<br />
Why Are Movie Trailers Called ‘Movie Trailers’? (Who Knew).................................pg. 10<br />
Restaurant Chatter (Comic Strip).............................................................................pg. 11<br />
Free Strings Classes at OTMS (Advertisement)..……………………………………..pg. 12<br />
Ibi Ginsburg, a Holocaust Survivor………………………………………………………pg. 13<br />
Jokes and Riddles…………………………………………………………………………pg. 14
100 Word True Story<br />
A Hard Time Falling Asleep<br />
I remember one time I couldn’t fall asleep, so my dad told me stories<br />
of when I was around one. One of them was that I would take a long time to<br />
fall asleep. My dad would put me in my crib and lay on the floor. Sometimes I<br />
would hold his hand. Around fifteen minutes later, when my dad thought I was<br />
asleep, I would stand up in my crib to check that he was there. Then I would<br />
lay down again. This would happen every day, around 8 times. It took about two<br />
hours for me to fall asleep at that age.<br />
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100 Word True Story<br />
My Sister’s Hero<br />
When I was 5, and my sister was 3, my family and I went to the park.<br />
My sister was playing with a ball and was very happy. After a while, she<br />
dropped the ball and it rolled over to a boy who was about 5 years old too.<br />
The boy grabbed her ball and didn’t want to give it back. My sister just<br />
stared at him, because she didn’t know what to do. Then, realizing what<br />
had happened, I marched over to the boy. I snatched the ball out of his<br />
grasp and gave it to my sister. That day, I was a hero for her.<br />
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Word Power Definitions<br />
1. Aa- basaltic lava forming very rough jagged masses with a light frothy texture.<br />
2. Snollygoster- A person who can’t be trusted<br />
3. Widdershins- In a contrary or counterclockwise direction<br />
4. Argle-bargle- copious but meaningless talk or writing<br />
5. Blatherskite- a person who talks at great length without making much sense<br />
6. Lollygag- to move slowly, fall behind<br />
7. Gabelle- a tax on salt<br />
8. Tittynope- a small quantity of something left over<br />
9. Ulotrichous- having wooly or crispy hair<br />
10. Lackadaisical- lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy<br />
11. Chanticleer- a name given to a rooster, especially in fairy tales<br />
12. Sesquipedalianism- characterized by long words; long-winded<br />
13. Logomachy- an argument about words<br />
14. Jargogle- to confuse, jumble, or mix things up<br />
15. Nudiustertian- of or relating to the day before yesterday<br />
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Answer Key for Crossword!<br />
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Emotional Health<br />
Not a lot of people think about being healthy emotionally, but it is essential to living a life full<br />
of balance, wholeness, and contentment. It is related to wellbeing and mental health. Emotional health<br />
is thought as an extension of mental health. It is a state of positive psychological functioning. Healthy<br />
place says that emotional health is “the optimal functioning end of the thoughts, feelings, and<br />
behaviors that make up both our inner and outer worlds.” In other words, it is what we think, feel,and<br />
do through the good and bad things in life. The steps that people should use to become emotionally<br />
healthy are:<br />
1. Knowing what your personal strengths are, helping them grow, and living with them<br />
2. Learning to see positive things in negative situations<br />
3. Being able to learn from mistakes<br />
4. Being flexible in situations<br />
5. Seeing the good things about yourself<br />
6. Being thankful for the things you have<br />
7. Being able to deal with stress<br />
8. Having time to enjoy and relax<br />
9. Living life with a sense of purpose<br />
10. Building relationships<br />
11. Smiling<br />
When you are emotionally healthy, you are self-confident and start<br />
enjoying life. You begin to relax and have an open mind and heart. An<br />
emotionally healthy person is calm and patient with others in many<br />
situations. Many people are not emotionally healthy. They judge<br />
others, and aren’t fun to be around. If you want to have good<br />
relationships, becoming emotionally healthy will help. You will find life to<br />
be easier if you are emotionally healthy.<br />
http://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-illness-overview/what-is-emotional-health-andhow-to-improve-it/<br />
http://www.drjeanette.com/emotionalhealth.html<br />
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Dillon- World peace<br />
The two most beautiful words are...<br />
Zoha- Childhood, beauty<br />
Ms. King- Goats, goat<br />
Ana (Mom)- God, peace<br />
Oscar (Dad)- God, Jesus<br />
Valeria (Sister)- God, animals<br />
Niki- Mellifluous, ineffable<br />
Abby- Sunrise, diamond<br />
Elizabeth- Bacon, spring<br />
Zane- Mountains, life<br />
Sophia- Love, happiness<br />
Megan- Bunnies, Jax<br />
Conner- Beef, cake<br />
Caleb- Ocean, pizza<br />
Aubrey- Majestic, beautiful<br />
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Who Knew<br />
When are Heart Attacks Most Likely to Occur?<br />
Heart attacks are most likely to happen in the winter, on a Monday, and just after<br />
waking up in the morning. Winter is connected to stress, infections in cholesterol<br />
levels, depression, and decreased activity. Those are some causes of heart attacks.<br />
Increased stress of returning to work is why it’s most likely to occur on a Monday.<br />
Rushes of stress upon waking up and having thinner blood in the mornings<br />
contribute to having heart attacks just after waking up. High blood pressure, heart<br />
rate, and blood vessel tone in the morning also contribute.<br />
http://myheart.net/articles/predict-heart-attack/<br />
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Who Knew<br />
Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day<br />
In Europe and the US, May 29 is Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day. This holiday is about good<br />
fortune and prosperity, and has been celebrated since the early 1900s. Families would put a piece of<br />
cloth, usually from their bedroom, or linen in the cupboards they used to store food. They believed<br />
that putting the cloth of linen would help have more abundance of food and children. As technology<br />
improved, refrigerators were invented. Now, people put pillows on fridges instead of cloth or linen in<br />
cupboards. This holiday is a simple way to try getting good fortune and prosperity.<br />
https://www.thefactsite.com/2013/02/put-pillow-on-your-fridge-day.html<br />
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Who Knew<br />
Why are Movie Trailers Called ‘Movie Trailers’?<br />
The first movie trailer was made in 1912 by Broadway producer Nils<br />
Granlund. He decided to show cut up clips from a movie, but after the movie<br />
had happened. As time went on, the movie trailers became more popular. At<br />
first, the trailers were made by the theater companies, but then movie studios<br />
began making them themselves. The trailers were always shown after the movie,<br />
but in the late 1930s, theaters began showing them before. They were called<br />
movie trailers because they were originally shown as trailers, after the movie.<br />
When they started showing movie trailers before the movie, the name had<br />
stuck, so they didn’t change it. Since the 1930s, they have been called movie<br />
trailers.<br />
https://priceonomics.com/why-are-movie-trailers-called-trailers/<br />
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Restaurant Chatter<br />
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Free Strings Classes at OTMS!<br />
Go to OTMS for FREE strings classes! All you have to bring is your<br />
instrument, and a method book (depending on how advanced you are). Classes<br />
for fourth to eighth graders available! Class times vary from 7:45 to 2:50, and<br />
are 45 minutes long. Located at the end of the school, after the eighth grade<br />
entrance. You will learn the basics like how to sit properly, how to hold your<br />
instrument and bow, and how to count rhythm and read notes. As you become<br />
more advanced, you’ll be able to do vibrato, tune your own instrument, and<br />
play in different key signatures and positions. You will also be able to play<br />
songs that are more than a page long with different parts. Soon you’ll be able to<br />
play like the professionals!<br />
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Ibi Ginsburg, a Holocaust Survivor<br />
Ibi Ginsburg was one of the few survivors of the Holocaust. Ibi was born in Hungary to a strict<br />
and religious Jewish family. On March 19, 1944, the Germans invaded Hungary. The Jews were told to<br />
wear yellow Stars of David on their clothes, which included Ibi and her family. All of the Jewish people<br />
were sent to live in crowded, isolated ghettoes (they were small sections of cities where Jews were forced<br />
to live, separated from the rest of the cities by walls and barbed wire fences). After two weeks of living in<br />
the ghettoes, Ibi and her family were told to pack for a three day journey. They did as they were told, but<br />
didn’t know where they were going. After the three day journey, they arrived at Auschwitz Birkenau,<br />
which was a camp. Ibi and her family were separated. Her father was taken first, and then Ibi and her 13-<br />
year-old sister were taken to a different part of camp. Her mother and two younger sisters were led to<br />
another direction, where they were immediately taken to gas chambers to die.<br />
Ibi and her 13-year-old sister had clothes and possessions taken away, had their hair shaved off,<br />
and had to wear a camp uniform. They had to live in a wooden building with concrete floor, and sleep on<br />
bare wooden bunks. There was very little food, and they had to stand for hours so they could be counted.<br />
After three months they were taken to work in a slave labor camp in Germany. When Germany was<br />
losing the war, they were taken on a forced march to a concentration camp. There, they were freed by<br />
Americans on May 1, 1945. Ibi Ginsburg, her father, and 13-year-old sister were able to survive the<br />
Holocaust.<br />
Sister, Father, and Ibi<br />
Ibi and Her Mother<br />
http://holocaustlearning.org/survivors/ibi-ginsburg<br />
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Jokes and Riddles<br />
A teacher says “whoever answers my question can go home.” A boy throws a book on the floor.<br />
“Who was that?” the teachers asks. “Me,” the boy says “and now I can go home.”<br />
A girl named Rory was in the hair salon where the hairstylist was doing her hair. “What’s your name?”<br />
the hairstylist asks. “Rory” she replies. “What a beautiful name,” the hairstylist says. “My 2-year-old<br />
nephew is named Rory!”<br />
In school, a first grader heard someone say that an apple a day takes the doctor away. He didn’t like<br />
going to the doctor, so he believed it. He ate around 10 apples that day. Those apples didn’t help him.<br />
Instead, he got so sick he had to go to the doctor.<br />
A 5-year-old girl loved horses, so her parents brought her to a carousel. She got on a horse and the<br />
carousel began to move. When the ride ended, she got off and told her parents “I thought horses<br />
were bigger and made noises! This one acts like a statue!”<br />
Q: What has a tongue but can’t talk?<br />
A: A shoe<br />
Q: What has a head, a tail, and no feet?<br />
A: A coin<br />
Q: Tiny Tim the turtle had a box of teeny, tiny chocolates, which he brought to his mom Tiffany for<br />
mother’s day. His mother lived in Texas, where she taught children how to tie their shoes. They said<br />
hello, and Tiny Tim gave her the box of chocolates. Then, he left to go to Australia. How many t’s are<br />
in that?<br />
A: Two t’s are in THAT<br />
Q: Which weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks?<br />
A: Neither, they both weigh a ton!<br />
Q: What starts with a P and ends with an E and has a million letters in it?<br />
A: Post Office!<br />
Q: What is full of holes but can still hold water?<br />
A: A sponge!<br />
Q: What has two hands, a round face, always runs, but stays in place?<br />
A: A clock!<br />
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