August 5

High school (ages 12+)
Holidays & Celebrations

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Date:

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/august-5

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What day of the year is August 5?August 5 is the 217th day of a common year and the 218th day of a leap year.
2. Why is August 5 important in the calendar?It shows how many days have passed and helps people plan events and keep track of time.

Gregorian Calendar: The internationally adopted civil calendar, a solar-based system that replaced the Julian calendar for improved accuracy in tracking the solar year.
Leap Year: A year containing 366 days, with an extra day (February 29) inserted to synchronize the calendar with the astronomical year.
Ordinal Day: The sequential number of a day within a given year, starting with January 1 as the first day.
Tropical Year: The time it takes for the Earth to complete one orbit around the Sun relative to the seasons, approximately 365.2422 days.