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Monday, September 30, 2013

9/30 Monday

1. Warm-Up-In your Norman Language Arts google doc, answer the following question. Make sure to date your post, fully explain your answer, and use complete sentences.




2. Weekly Vocabulary-Once again, your Weekly Vocabulary comes from our class novel. Take a few minutes and get to know these words.

3. Weekly Vocabulary Assignment-This week we are doing a 5x5x5. Here are the instructions:

*Directions: Write each word and its definition five times. When finished, create a paragraph with at least five sentences that uses all five words correctly. Make sure to underline the vocabulary words in your created paragraph.

4. Summarizing-Today we are going to start a lesson on summarizing written passages. This will be extremely important for your future as successful readers. Now, do the following steps (Be sure to TAKE GOOD NOTES!):

      1.Go to the following website and review their tips on summarizing.

      2. Watch the two videos on summarizing. Be prepared to discuss.

 
 
 
 
 
5. Independent Reading-Remember we are going to start using our Reading Notebooks today!
 
 
6. Social Studies-Grab your Social Studies notebook and let's talk about the Inquisition.

7. Torture in the Inquisition-Torture was a big part of the Inquisition. Go to my Torture in the Inquisition  Google doc and read about the various techniques used for torture during the Inquisition. On a blank sheet of paper, you need to rank the torture methods by how painful you think they would be. For example, whichever technique you think would be most painful would be your number 1 and so on.




     


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