10/20 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday-Learn new words, donate some rice to the needy, it's a WIN-WIN situation. It's FREE RICE time!!!

2. Common Assessment-Log in to Edulastic and we can get started

3. SQUASH-We are going to take another look at a recent passage. We need some extra work.

4. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Explain in detail how each story might be impactful in your life.

5. Reformation Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching the Reformation. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the Reformation? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from the Reformation. Tell me who they were and why they were important to the Reformation.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from the Reformation. Explain why the dates you chose are important to the Reformation.

HOW-Explain in detail how the Reformation started. What happened before that led to this movement?

WHY- Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

6. Geo Guesser-Geo Guesser is an awesome game. I will explain how it works!

10/19 Thursday

1. Game Time-Let's get the day started with some games. You can play either Eight Letter Game or  Wordsearch.

2. MyPerspectives-Let's go over our story and then look at our questions.

3. Edmentum-Your path is calling to you....do you hear it????

4. Website Tryout-Head here and let's give it a shot.

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Explain in detail how each story might be impactful in your life.

6. Reformation Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching the Reformation. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:


WHAT-What was the Reformation? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from the Reformation. Tell me who they were and why they were important to the Reformation.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from the Reformation. Explain why the dates you chose are important to the Reformation.

HOW-Explain in detail how the Reformation started. What happened before that led to this movement?

WHY- Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

10/18 Wednesday

ELA

1. Article of the Day-Head this website, log-in and get to reading!

2. Think Cerca-Head to this website and log-in. You have several assignments you need to complete.

3. MyPerspecives-Make sure you have finished the story and have answered the questions on pages 76 and 77. When you are finished, you need to complete the chart on page 78.

4. ReadTheory-Log-in and get to work!

SOCIAL STUDIES

5.  Reformation Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching the Reformation. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the Reformation? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from the Reformation. Tell me who they were and why they were important to the Reformation.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from the Reformation. Explain why the dates you chose are important to the Reformation.

HOW-Explain in detail how the Reformation started. What happened before that led to this movement?

WHY- Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

Tuesday 10/17

1. Warm-Up Creative Writing-Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative!

2. POV-Let's finish our POV worksheets.

3. MyPerspectives-We really need to finish our newest story.

4. Edmentum-You know it, you love it...

New Website-We are going to try out a new website. It is called Storyboard That. Let's take a look.

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Explain in detail how each story might be impactful in your life.

6. Renaissance Art- Head to this link and let's read about how the great artists created sculptures and paintings. As your scan through, write down on a blank piece of paper, ten important facts from your reading. You must not have more than two facts from any paragraph.

When finished with the article, read the questions below and answer on the same sheet as you have your facts on. Use your facts and details from the article to completely answer the questions. Answers must be in complete sentences.

1. How did artists get the money to create their art?
2. What was an important advance made by Renaissance painters? Why was it so important? Give examples of this advance in use.
3. How did artists use math and science to help them create their art?
4. Sculptors began carving figures that looked like real people and showed emotion. Who were two key sculptors and what were some of their famous sculpting accomplishments?
5. Varsari's quote of "What a happy age we live in. How fortunate . . . " is referring to what? Why do you think he feels that way?

7. JuniorScholastic-When you have finished and turned in your Ren. facts, grab a JuniorScholastic and a worksheet. Read the article on pages 10-13. Complete the worksheet and then on a blank piece of paper, answer the Map Skills questions found on page 13. Answer all 10 questions

10/16 Monday

1. FreeRead-We are going to start our day with some quiet reading time.

2. Point of View-We will use time to finish and go over our POV worksheet.

3. MyPerspectives-Let's get back to our textbook.

4. Edmentum-Log on and keep following your path...

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Explain in detail how each story might be impactful in your life.

6. Renaissance Art- Head to this link and let's read about how the great artists created sculptures and paintings. As your scan through, write down on a blank piece of paper, ten important facts from your reading. You must not have more than two facts from any paragraph.

When finished with the article, read the questions below and answer on the same sheet as you have your facts on. Use your facts and details from the article to completely answer the questions. Answers must be in complete sentences.

1. How did artists get the money to create their art?
2. What was an important advance made by Renaissance painters? Why was it so important? Give examples of this advance in use.
3. How did artists use math and science to help them create their art?
4. Sculptors began carving figures that looked like real people and showed emotion. Who were two key sculptors and what were some of their famous sculpting accomplishments?
5. Varsari's quote of "What a happy age we live in. How fortunate . . . " is referring to what? Why do you think he feels that way?

7. JuniorScholastic-When you have finished and turned in your Ren. facts, grab a JuniorScholastic and a worksheet. Read the article on pages 10-13. Complete the worksheet and then on a blank piece of paper, answer the Map Skills questions found on page 13. Answer all 10 questions

10/13 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday-Learn new words, donate some rice to the needy, it's a WIN-WIN situation. It's FREE RICE time!!!

FREE RICE CHALLENGE-Try to get over 800 grains of rice!

2. Edmentum-Head to this site and await instructions.

3. MyPerspectives-Back to the book!

4. POV-We are going to do some work on point of view

10/12 Thursday

1. Article of the Day-Head this website, log-in and get to reading!

2. MyPerspectives Activity-Let's go over that worksheet!

3. MyPerspective Groups-Get with your groups. We are going to listen to another ListenWise story. Make sure you pay close attention and then work with your group to answer your questions. Here is a link to the text from the story if you want to follow along.

4. MyPerspectives Textbook-We are going to start a whole new story. Remember, as we read, think about how our story fits in with our unit theme and unit questio

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Explain in detail how each story might be impactful in your life.

4. Renaissance-Today we will continue our Renaissance unit.

6. Renaissance Art- Head to this link and let's read about how the great artists created sculptures and paintings. As your scan through, write down on a blank piece of paper, ten important facts from your reading. You must not have more than two facts from any paragraph.

When finished with the article, read the questions below and answer on the same sheet as you have your facts on. Use your facts and details from the article to completely answer the questions. Answers must be in complete sentences.

1. How did artists get the money to create their art?
2. What was an important advance made by Renaissance painters? Why was it so important? Give examples of this advance in use.
3. How did artists use math and science to help them create their art?
4. Sculptors began carving figures that looked like real people and showed emotion. Who were two key sculptors and what were some of their famous sculpting accomplishments?
5. Varsari's quote of "What a happy age we live in. How fortunate . . . " is referring to what? Why do you think he feels that way?