10/22 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up Creative Writing-Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words.




2. Weekly Vocabulary-Study those words!

3. Act-it-Out-Let's take about 10 minutes to work on getting those Act-it Outs perfect!

4. Wordle-We are going to go back and use Wordle some more. This time, we are going to use the site to describe Pamlico County. Here are the instructions again:

Step 1:  Go to Wordle

Step 2:  Create your word cloud by typing in words that describe Pamlico County. Be expressive!  Press "GO" when finished.

Step 3:  Save your wordle to the public gallery, but do not put your last name in the description.

Step 4:  Copy (control-c) the embed code at the bottom of the page

Step 5:  Paste (control-v) the embed code into an email you will send to me. Your email should have the title "Norman-Wordle-Pamlico"

5. Class Novel-We have received our Outsiders class set. Before we start, using the info in your Outsiders Google Doc, write a  summary of what has occurred so far in the book. Be sure to include the important characters! You will write this summary in NC Write.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.
What is one way in which America was changed by the Age of Exploration. Was it a change for the good or for the bad? Be sure to fully explain your answers. 

7. Explorers, Explorers, Explorers!-We are going to review some explorers and meet some new ones!

8. Letter Home Weekly Assignment-This week you will be pretending that you are a crew member aboard one of the Age of Exploration voyages. You must follow these steps to complete the assignment:

     1. Pick an expedition you think you would have liked to have been on.

     2. Research all pertinent information about that expedition.

     3. Write a letter to your family as if you were writing from aboard a ship on an expedition.

     4. Include in your letters the information you found in step number 2.

     5. Write your letter in cursive.

Your letter should be at least 100 words long and be grammatically correct and free of spelling errors.