12/16 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, our Vocabulary Words come from a short story we will be reading. Take some time to get to know these words.

3. Vocabulary Sentences-This week you will need to create 3 sentences for each of your words.

4. NC Write-Today you will be using NC Write to create a short story about Christmas. Your story must begin with the sentence "It was getting late and Santa Claus was already running behind......" Your story should be creative and contain at least 200 words.

5. Gift of the Magi-Today we will start reading the short story titled "The Gift of the Magi."

6. Christmas Word Search-Using graph paper given to you by Mr. Norman, you will select 12 Christmas related words, and then use those words to create a Christmas Word Search.

7. Global Trade Review-We will use this time to review the Mughal and Ottoman Empires.

8. Christmas Across the Globe-Christmas is celebrated all over the word. For this assignment, you will research Christmas celebrations different from your own. You will then create a Christmas Tradition Google doc on which you will include at least 20 facts, pictures, videos, songs, and other things detailing different kinds of celebrations.

9. Christmas Origins-I often say that the best way to fully appreciate something is to know its origin. With that in mind, you are to use the internet to research and find the origins of the following things associated with Christmas.

-Santa Claus
-Christmas Trees
-Gift giving
-Santa's Elves
-Christmas lights

Once you have researched the above things, on a blank sheet of paper, write what you have learned about their origins. Be sure to write in complete sentences.