12/12 Thursday

1. Game Time-Today we will be using a new site for our gaming. The website FitBrains contains many games designed to test and increase your cognitive abilities. You will need to create an account. We will go over all of this together. The games themselves are fun but challenging. Let's get playing!

2. Word Boxes-Take this time to work on your Weekly Vocabulary Word Boxes. They will be due tomorrow. If you have finished, use this time to study or play some Quizlet games with your words.

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

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year"

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ” 

"Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”

4. The Outsiders-Before we read from our class novel, go to your Outsider Google doc. and answer the following prompt:

Make 3 predictions about what you think will happen in the rest of the book. Make sure these are well thought and make sense with the book (you would not predict that Pony turns out to be an alien!). Make sure your predictions are fully explained and written in complete sentences. 

5. NC Write-Let's improve the scores on our newest NC Write prompt.

6. Global Trade-Let's review The Ottoman and Mughal Empires.

7. Global Trade Project-Get with your group and work on your weekly project.