11/24 Monday

1. Proper Table Setting-Take a minute to look at this proper table setting. This is how fancy-pants people eat. What do you think about this table setting?


2. Thanksgiving Mad-Lib-Here is the link for a Thanksgiving themed Mad-Lib. Take your time and create 3 awesome Mad-Libs. When you have your favorite, copy and paste it and share with me in an email!

3. NC Write-Go to NC Write and complete the prompt titled "The Perfect Thanksgiving."

4. Thanksgiving Quiz-How well do you know Thanksgiving? Take this Thanksgiving Quiz and find out...

5. The First Thanksgiving-Take some time to read this article. On a sheet of paper, write 4 things from the article that you found interesting, shocking, or confusing. Make sure to write in complete sentences.

6. Thanksgiving Word search-Lets just relax with a word search...

11/22 Friday

1. Free Rice-Free Rice Friday time......Our score to beat is 1200.

2. Analyze the Quote-Read the following quotes. In your Language Arts Google doc, analyze each quote. What do you think the speaker meant? Why do you think this? Remember to write in complete sentences and to fully explain your answers. 

-"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

-"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

-"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."

3. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to finish your "S" video Short Story.

4. Theme-We are going to go over the theme group work you guys did yesterday.

5. The Outsiders-Our quiz is coming in a few minutes. Take this time to read and review for your quiz.

6.  Glogster - Today we will practice using Glogster. I think you should create your own account and make sure you add  your user name and password to your password sheet. You have options for signing up:

You may have made an account in 6th grade. Try to use that one. If you forgot your password or user name, try to sign in and click "forgot." They'll send your information to your email.
Sign up for a free student account. My educator code is 7BUCA4
Sign in with your Google Account. It's in the top right corner.
After getting signed in, please start a new glog. We'll have a little contest. Your job is to create a glog on Pamlico Middle School. Your interactive poster should be creative and highlight all of the good things at Pamlico Middle.

For today, do not use any videos on your glog. No YouTube searching is needed today.

When finished, you will put the URL to your glog in my class dropbox (I will show/model this for you). Make sure that your glog is public and can be viewed by others.

7. JFK-Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy. Go to the following websites and read about JFK. The websites are here, here, and here. Using the information on these sites, answer the following questions on a sheet of paper. (Remember to answer in complete sentences.)

1. John F. Kennedy was the ______ President of the United States. ( I am looking for a number)

2. Was JFK a Democrat or a Republican?

3. Where was JFK born?

4. Where did JFK go to college?

5. How, when, and where did JFK die?

6. Who became president after JFK died? 

7. What branch of the military was JFK a member of?

8. How many children did JFK have? What were their names?

9. What is Communism?

10. How old was JFK when he was elected president?

8. JFK Timeline-The website Esri Media has an awesome interactive timeline on the life of John F. Kennedy. Use this time to browse the timeline, watch the videos, and learn all you can about Kennedy. 

11/21 Thursday

1. Would-You-Rather-This is something we will occasionally do. Answer both "would you rather" questions in your Language Arts Google Doc. Make sure to fully explain your answers.

Would you rather time travel to the past or to the future?

Would you rather always lose or never play?

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to work on your "S" word short stories. Remember they are not due to till Friday, so make them awesome!

3. Theme-Check your Gmail to make sure that you have gotten your "How to Find Theme" email from me.

4. Finding Theme Part 1-You will be partnering with a classmate to complete a theme finding exercise.

5  Glogster - Today we will practice using Glogster. I think you should create your own account and make sure you add it to your user name and password to your password sheet.
You have options for signing up:

You may have made an account in 6th grade. Try to use that one. If you forgot your password or user name, try to sign in and click "forgot." They'll send your information to your email.
Sign up for a free student account. My educator code is 7BUCA4
Sign in with your Google Account. It's in the type right corner.
After getting signed in, please start a new glog. We'll have a little contest. Your job is to create a glog on Pamlico Middle School. Your interactive poster should be creative and highlight all of the good things at Pamlico Middle.

For today, do not use any videos on your glog. No YouTube searching is needed today.

When finished, you will put the URL to your glog in my class dropbox (I will show/model this for you). Make sure that your glog is public and can be viewed by others.

6. The Outsiders-Our quiz is tomorrow. Spend this time either reading or reviewing. The quiz will cover major events and characters.

7. Slavery-We will continue our slavery unit.

11/21 Wednesday

1. Game Time-We have a new game today! Its called Word Craze. Here's the instructions for the game:

Guess as many words as you can in under a minute. There is a catch though. Your words must match up with the target letter and position shown above a word. Words cannot be used more than once and they must be valid to score. Each letter contains a different value according to how often it appears in our dictionary.

Eight Letter Game 
Wordsearch.
Knoword 
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Mystery Read!-Today we are going to solve a mystery!

3. Theme-Let's practice those theme finding skills.

4. The Outsiders-Our test is on Friday. Read and/or review your class novel.

5. Prefix/Suffix-Let's do some work together as a class.

6. Slavery-Today we will be reviewing and looking at the causes of slavery and how slaves were treated.

Slavery Presentation

ENRICHMENT
Today for Enrichment we are going to have a Website battle. You will visit both websites. Really spend some quality time on each site. Then you will send me an email titled "Website Battle 1". In the email you should tell me which site you preferred and why. Remember to write in complete sentences and to fully explain you answers.

TODAY'S BATTLE

Flockdraw         VS             Art Pad

11/19 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. In your Norman-Language Arts Google doc, write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Use this time to work on your "S" Videos and your short story. You have all week to work on this, so your stories should be awesome!

3. Theme-Go back to yesterday's blog post and finish working on Number 5.

4. Theme Practice-Now we are going to practice what we have learned about finding a story's theme.

5. The Outsiders-Take this time to read and/or review our class novel. REMEMBER our quiz is on Friday!

6. Prefix/Suffix-I hope you held on to both Prefix/Suffix worksheets I gave you!

7. Slavery Warm-Up-In your Norman Social Studies Google doc, respond to the following writing prompt:

If slavery is wrong, why has it existed for so many years?

8. Slavery-If you have finished both your SAS Curriculum Middle Passage assignment and your Middle Passage reading passage and Create-a-Quiz, then you need to complete the following assignment:

African Slave Trade - Go to the following links and read more about the Slave Trade. As you are reading, you need to create a fact sheet containing 15 facts you learned from the 3 sites. You must have at least 2 facts from each site. 

• The Roots of Slavery
• African Slave Owners
• The Atlantic Slave Trade

11/18 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 -- This week we are going to change up things a bit. Watch some of the      "S" Vocabulary Videos.

Your assignment is to create a short story using at least 12 of the "S" words correctly. You can add suffixes (review your prefix/suffix worksheet) to the words to make them fit better, but all words used must fit the context of your story. Rewatch some of the videos if necessary to better understand the words. This should be completed on a blank piece of paper and is due on Friday. Remember to underline each vocabulary word in your story.

The temptation with this assignment is to write as short a story as possible. Be careful not to cram too many specific vocabulary words in a few sentences, as context mistakes are likely.

3. The Outsiders- We will be having our 1st quiz on our class novel this week.

4. Prefix/Suffix-I hope you held on to both Prefix/Suffix worksheets I gave you!

5. Theme-This week we are going to be discussing Theme. Finding a story's theme is extremely important. Watch the following video on finding theme.

 Now you need to visit the following websites on theme. The sites are Here, Here, and  Here.
As you watch the video and search the sites you need to take notes on the best ways to find a story's theme. When you have finished, you are to send me an email titled THEME. In this email you are to use the information from the video and the websites to make a list of the 7 best ways to find a story's theme. Your email should contain complete sentences and you must fully explain each of your 7 ways of finding theme.

6. Slavery Warm-Up-In your Norman Social Studies Google doc, respond to the following writing prompt:

“You are awoken in the dead of night and taken away from your home and family. You are then transported by people who do not speak your language to a country that is completely foreign to you. Write your thoughts, feelings, fears, etc…”

7. Middle Passage-We will be discussing The Middle Passage handout from last week. 

11/15 Friday

1. Free Rice-Free Rice Friday!!!!. 

2. Weekly Vocabulary 3-2-1-It's time to finish your Weekly Vocabulary projects....

3. Weekly Vocabulary-Take about 10 minutes to study your Weekly Vocabulary Words. There will be a quiz!

4. Weekly Vocab. Quiz

QUIZ

5. The Outsiders-Grab a book and get reading. If you have not done the 7 Character Ice Cream Cones you need to finish that now.

6. Middle Passage-You will be reading a passage on the slave trade. When you have finished reading, you will need to create a 10 question pop quiz on the passage. 

7. Slavery Obituary-Keep working on your obituaries.

ENRICHMENT
Today for Enrichment we are going to have a Website battle. You will visit both websites. Really spend some quality time on each site. Then you will send me an email titled "Website Battle 1". In the email you should tell me which site you preferred and why. Remember to write in complete sentences and to fully explain you answers.

TODAY'S BATTLE

Flockdraw         VS             Art Pad

11/14 Thursday

1. Game Time-Yeah I know we did Game Time yesterday, but we are going to do it again! Sit back, relax, and play some games...

Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Weekly Vocabulary 3-2-1-Your 3-2-1s are due tomorrow! Use this class time to finish them up!

3. Incredibox-This awesome website let's you create some amazing tunes! Let's fill our class with the sounds of beautiful music.

4. What Happened to Columbus?-By now we all know about Columbus and his famous voyage but what happened afterward? Use this fact sheet to find out. Thoroughly read the fact sheet. When you have finished reading, on a blank sheet of paper write 20 facts contained on the site. Remember to write in complete sentences.  

5. Native American Language-Besides foods and animals, another thing that we took from the Native Americans was parts of their language. Go to SAS Curriculum and work on assignment 1273. 

11/13 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's get the day started with some games. We do  not have a new game thios week so enjoy our older games. When we have finished Game Time, send me an email Titled "Last Name-Game Review." In this email you need to rank our games according to how you like them. For example, if your favorite game is Knoword, that would be number 1 on  your rankings, and if your least favorite game is Popword, then that would be ranked 6th (we have 6 games). Be sure to include a brief explanation as to why you ranked the games as you did.


Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to study your Weekly Vocabulary Words.

3. Weekly Vocabulary 3-2-1- Continue working on your 3-2-1s.

4. The Outsiders-Read and work on those Character Ice-Cream Cones.  

5.Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.

Why do you think that slavery exists? Be sure to fully explain your answers. 

6. Slavery Unit-Today we will continue looking at slavery.

7. Slavery Obituary-Continue working on your obituaries. 

11/12 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-Here are your Weekly Vocabulary Words. This week we have a whopping 14 WORDS. Take some time to familiarize yourself with your new words.

3. Weekly Vocabulary 3-2-1-Use all of your words to complete your 3-2-1 assignment. Here are the instructions:

Write each word 3 times
Write each word and definition 2 times
Write 1 sentence using each of your vocab words (make sure you underline the vocabulary word)

4. The Outsiders-Grab a copy and let's read. While you are reading, you should be creating 7 Character Ice-Cream Cones in your Reading Notebook.

5. Prefix/Suffix-Let's take a look at Prefixes and Suffixes again! First, visit the following websites and read up on our subject. When you have finished, we will discuss. The websites are here, here, and here.

6. Prefix and Suffix Game-Take some time to play some Prefix and Suffix Games.

7.Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.


Where and when do you think slavery started? Why do you think this? Remember to explain your answers.

8. Slavery Obituary-You will be given a slip of paper with a name typed on it. That name is someone who is important to the topic of slavery. You will use the next few days to research your person and collect as much information as possible. You are to then write an obituary for that person including much of the information you have found in your research. Be sure to mention in the obituary their connection to slavery.

This is what a typical obituary will look like:

Rubric:

Grammar/Overall Neatness=25 points

Creativity=25 points

Research/Information provided=50 points

11/8 Friday

1. Free Rice-It's Friday so that means that it is time to play some Free Rice. Play only vocabulary.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-If you have not finished your Word Boxes, now is the time to do so. If you have finished, take this time to study your words. Play some Scatter or Space Race!

3. The Outsiders-Time to read our class novel...

4. Create-A-Quiz- You are going to use all 10 of your Weekly Vocabulary Words to create a vocabulary quiz. Your quiz should contain at least 2 true or false questions and 1 fill in the blank. The rest of the questions should be multiple choice. Your quiz should be on a blank piece of paper. 

5. Prefix/Suffix-Now that we are a little more familiar with Prefixes and Suffixes, let's practice!

6. Independent Reading-It's Friday so that means it is time to read your library books.

7. Middle Passage-One of the worst things about the Columbian Exchange and the Triangle Trade was the growth of the African Slave trade. This is what we will be discussing today. 

11/7 Thursday

1. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Norman Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:

-Did you like the article? Explain your answer.


-Was the article informative? Explain your answer.


Also, create two E.O.G style questions about the article.

2. Catch-Up Day-Today we will be using our time to catch-up on our work from the past few days.

 

Vocabulary Word Boxes-Continue working on those Boxes.

Prefixes/Suffixes-In the red Writer's Choice book (they are on the bottom shelf of the book case), read pages 661-664. When you are finished reading, do exercises 4 and 5 on a blank sheet of paper. When you are finished be sure to turn them in.

NC Write-Work on your Columbian Exchange NC Write prompt. If you have already submitted, revise and submit again. Our goal is a score of 20.

The Outsiders-We need to get to page 68 before Friday. Get as much read today as possible. While reading, you need to create 5 Summary Sketches in your Reading Notebooks.

Triangle Trade- Go to the following websites. Read the information they contain about the Triangle Trade. Once you have visited all the websites, create on a blank piece of paper a Triangle Trade fact sheet. Your fact sheet should contain at least 20 facts. Your facts need to be written in complete sentences. Turn in once you have finished. The websites are here, here, and here.

3. Going Green Letter- Have you ever seen the Tonight Show? The host, Jay Leno, is a funny guy. He's also passionate about helping our planet and improving our future.

Check out this post on Leno's Green Garage. Scan through the articles, pictures, and videos. When finished, you will write a letter to Leno (in Google Docs) that comments on some of the interesting stuff he has, inquires about specifics on some of his projects, and ask relevant questions related to the articles.

The more depth your letter has, the better grade you will receive. Title your google doc "Last Name-Leno Letter" and make sure to share it with me.

ENRICHMENT- You are going to complete some Sentence Expansions.  What is a sentence expansion?  Read below:

The goal of sentence expansion is to create sentences that are informative and interesting. Writing an awesome sentence is something that everyone can do. In sentence expansion, you take a simple sentence(one noun and a verb) and gradually expand it until you have a beautiful sentence.

To start this activity, students need to be able to answer the following questions: Who? What? How? Where? When? and Why? Take a look at the example below.

Who: What/What Kind: How: Where: When: Why:

The alligator eats. The green alligator eats. The green alligator eats quickly. The green alligator eats quickly in the pool. The green alligator eats quickly in the pool at 9:00 A.M. The green alligator eats quickly in the pool at 9:00 A.M.because he is hungry.

By taking a simple sentence and expanding it step by step, students are able to create sentences that are entertaining and informative.

Ok, so the alligator example above is called ONE SET of sentence expansions.  Each set has six sentences.  On a piece of paper, I'd like to you create 5 sets of sentence expansions.  Have fun with them!

11/6 Wednesday

 NC Write-When you have finished your Math Benchmark, complete the Grant Wood's "American Gothic": The Story prompt on NC Write. Be sure to follow the instructions. Make as many revisions as you want! When you have finished, complete any other work you need to. Remember to work quietly!


2ND CLASS ONLY (Mrs. Elmore's Homeroom)

1. Vocabulary Word Boxes-Continue working on those Boxes.

2. Prefixes/Suffixes-In the red Writer's Choice book (they are on the bottom shelf of the book case), read pages 661-664. When you are finished reading, do exercises 4 and 5 on a blank sheet of paper. When you are finished be sure to turn them in.

3. NC Write-Work on your Columbian Exchange NC Write prompt. If you have already submitted, revise and submit again. Our goal is a score of 20.

4. Triangle Trade- Go to the following websites. Read the information they contain about the Triangle Trade. Once you have visited all the websites, create on a blank piece of paper a Triangle Trade fact sheet. Your fact sheet should contain at least 20 facts. Your facts need to be written in complete sentences. Turn in once you have finished. The websites are here, here, and here.

5. The Outsiders-We need to get to page 68 before Friday. Get as much read today as possible. While reading, you need to create 5 Summary Sketches in your Reading Notebooks.

11/5 Tuesday

1. Vocabulary Word Boxes-Continue working on those Boxes.

2. Prefixes/Suffixes-In the red Writer's Choice book (they are on the bottom shelf of the book case), read pages 661-664. When you are finished reading, do exercises 4 and 5 on a blank sheet of paper. When you are finished be sure to turn them in.

3. NC Write-Work on your Columbian Exchange NC Write prompt. If you have already submitted, revise and submit again. Our goal is a score of 20.

4. Triangle Trade- Go to the following websites. Read the information they contain about the Triangle Trade. Once you have visited all the websites, create on a blank piece of paper a Triangle Trade fact sheet. Your fact sheet should contain at least 20 facts. Your facts need to be written in complete sentences. Turn in once you have finished. The websites are here, here, and here.

5. The Outsiders-We need to get to page 68 before Friday. Get as much read today as possible. While reading, you need to create 5 Summary Sketches in your Reading Notebooks.

11/4 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-You will use all 8 of your ten Weekly Vocabulary Words to create a Vocabulary Word Box. We have done one of these already this year, so this should not be difficult. Here is what your box should look like:




3. The Outsiders-It is time to read our class novel.

4. NC Write-You will be answering the NC Write prompt titled "Columbian Exchange."

5. Study Island-Tomorrow we are starting our ELA Benchmark. Before then, let's use Study Island to review what we have covered so far this year.

6. Independent Reading-Once you have finished your Study Island assignment, you need to read your library book. In your Reading Notebook, you need to complete 4 Summary Sketches.

7. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.

What was one thing you learned about the Columbian Exchange that surprised you? Why did it do so? Remember to fully explain your answers.

8. Triangle Trade-Today, we will begin looking at the Triangle Trade. Go to the following website and wait for my instructions.

9. Global Trade Market-We will spend this week looking at the history of global trade. Your weekly project should help you learn more about this subject. Here is your assignment:

The class will soon be visited by King Jeremy the First from the country of Normania. He is looking to enter into trade with another continent or empire. You and your group will research your assigned continent or empire and use props to represent the items which your area can trade. Your goal is to entice King Jeremy the First into entering into a trading partnership with your group. Every member of the group will speak, and the trade props must be explained. (Example-What is Silk, and why would King Jeremy need it?) Groups must have and present at least 4 trade items. King Jeremy likes to ask questions so BE PREPARED!

11/1 Friday

Sadly, Halloween is over......

1. Free Rice-It's Friday so that means that it is time to play some Free Rice. Play only vocabulary.
TODAY'S SCORE TO BEAT=1400

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take some time to finish your 3-2-1s. If you are finished, then take some time to study!

3. Prefix and Suffix pretest-Before we start our next unit, let's see what we already know.

4. Class Novel-Let's catch up with Pony and the gang.

5. NC Write-Take this time to perfect those spooky stories. Make sure to fix the errors found by NC Write. Let's see if anyone can get a score of 20!

6. Independent Reading-Get out your library books and get reading.

7. Columbian Exchange-We will continue discussing the Columbian Exchange.

SAS Curriculum