"Tunnels, Tracks and Trains" Continued

Tuesday:

Take up the reading comprehension questions from Monday’s class.

Reading pages: 16 -25 of “Tunnels, Tracks and Trains” as a class.


Go to yesterday's post and copy and past the 10 vocabulary terms into a new post. Use these ten terms in ten sentences and post them on your blog pages by the end of the period. (Title: Tunnel, Tracks and Trains Vocabulary Sentences)


Answer the comprehension questions on your blog pages. Answers will be found on pages 16-25. Answers should be completed in full sentences. (Title: Reading Comprehension Pages 16-25)


1. What are the concerns of project manager Bryan Lee?


2. Why do they engineers and construction workers use a boring machine to make tunnels instead of cut and cover construction?


3. What do the worker’s do to protect themselves in the newly formed tunnels from harmful levels of gases found in the soil at the various new subway sites?


Once you have completed your vocabulary sentences and your reading comprehension you
can first finish your journal entry's from yesterday: "The hardest thing I have ever done...".

When you are done that you may use this time to read your self-selected reading.


That is all for today!