Benjamin+Franklin+and+the+Magic+Squares

  **__Miss A's 4th Grade Reading Gifted/Talented Packet__

Benjamin Franklin and the Magic Squares** 1.This story was about a man named __. 2. However, people tended to call him just plain old__ __. 3. Ben invented many things, but this story is about how Ben invented__ __. 4. When Ben was eleven years old, he was able to be pulled one mile down a river by a kite that was flying high in the sky__.__ Ben wanted to be able to swim faster when he was in water after that experiment, so Ben invented__ __,which he could put on his hands and feet. 5,6.__ ___were invented in the year__. 7. When Ben grew older, he wrote and printed a newspaper called the. 8. After Ben created his newspaper, he wrote and printed a book called___. 9. An__ is a book of useful information. It tells you information about the weather, advertisements, and important dates. 10,11. Also, who could forget Ben’s famous experiment where he tied a _to a _, which caused Ben to realize that lightning was made from electricity! 12, 13, 14. As Ben continued to invent and create new and wonderful things, he invented three amazing places, which included the first ___,__ __, and__ ___. 15. In 1776, Ben Franklin helped Thomas Jefferson write and rewrite the__ __.__ 16. In 1736, Ben was a clerk for _ __. 17. The__ made laws for the colony of Pennsylvania. 18. The assembly workers were so boring that they often put Ben to __.__ 19. One day when Ben was bored, he decided to make a math puzzle and decided that it should be called a because each of the rows, columns, and diagonals added up to 15! Ben’s magic squares were published in newspapers and almanacs and they are still used today!

**__Answers:__** (1) Benjamin Franklin, (2) Ben, (3) Magic Squares, (4) Flippers, (5) Flippers, (6) 1717, (7) The Pennsylvania Gazette, (8) Poor Richard's Almanac, (9) Almanac, (10) key, (11) kite string, (12) fire station, (13) hospital, (14) library, (15) Declaration of Independence, (16) Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly, (17) assembly, (18) sleep, (19) magic square Why did Ben invent the magic squares?

Answer: He was bored.