1/27 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 Words-Here are your vocabulary words for the week. Take a few moments to get to know them. 

3. Weekly Vocabulary - We are going to try something different with our Weekly Vocabulary Words. You guys are going to use the words to create a Google slide presentation similar to the ones I will use to help you review. I will show you an example.
Here is my example

4. Review-We are going to take some time to review our passage we worked on last week.

5. Poem Practice-We are going to use our reading skills to analyze a poem by Langston Hughes.

6. Class Novel-Grab a copy of The Outsiders and get reading. While you are reading, complete 5 Character Ice Cream Cones and 5 Pop-Up Questions in your Reading Notebooks. (An example of a Pop-up question would be "I wonder why Ponyboy acted like that on page 43?") If you find the answer to your questions, go ahead and answer them.

7. History Research-This week you are going to be flexing those research muscles and writing a research paper. You are going to pick one thing that you absolutely love, and then you are going to research that thing. You will need to find out who created your item, when and where it was created and any other important information you can think of. You will then need to take that information and write a 300 word research essay on Google docs.

1/24 Friday

As you can see, I am not with you guys today. However, that does not mean that I do not expect you to behave. You will have a lot to do today, so I would not waste any time goofing off!

1. Free Rice-It's Friday so that means it is Free Rice time. Stick to the vocabulary words today.

2. 5x5x5-Take some time to finish those 5x5x5s. When you are finished, make sure you turn them into the substitute teacher. If you do not turn them in, you will not get a grade.

3. Reading Passage-When you have finished with your 5x5x5s, finish your reading passages from yesterday. They are on my desk and the sub will take them up when you have finished.

4. Reading Book-Grab a red Literature book from the shelf. Read the story Broken Chain, found on pages 44-52. When you have finished reading the story, answer all 10 questions found on page 53. Make sure your answers are in complete sentences. Be sure to turn your work in to the sub.

5. Class Novel-Grab a copy of The Outsiders and get reading. While you are reading, complete 5 Character Ice Cream Cones and 5 Pop-Up Questions in your Reading Notebooks. (An example of a Pop-up question would be "I wonder why Ponyboy acted like that on page 43?") If you find the answer to your questions, go ahead and answer them.

6. History Research-This week you are going to be flexing those research muscles and writing a research paper. You are going to pick one thing that you absolutely love, and then you are going to research that thing. You will need to find out who created your item, when and where it was created and any other important information you can think of. You will then need to take that information and write a 300 word research essay on Google docs.

7. Remediation-If you have work that still needs to be completed then this is the time to do it. If you have finished your work and have turned it in, then sit back, relax, and play some Fitbrains!

1/23 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. 5x5x5-Since there are only 5 Words this week, it makes perfect sense to do a 5x5x5. Here again are the directions.

*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.

3. Review- We are going to take this time to review some of the things we have covered so far this year.

4. Review Exercise-Now that we have reviewed, we are going to read a passage that will hopefully assess how well you guys have been paying attention.

5. Class Novel-Grab a copy of The Outsiders and get reading.

6. History Research-This week you are going to be flexing those research muscles and writing a research paper. You are going to pick one thing that you absolutely love, and then you are going to research that thing. You will need to find out who created your item, when and where it was created and any other important information you can think of. You will then need to take that information and write a 300 word research essay on Google docs.

1/22 Wednesday

1. Game Time-We now have 7 games to choose from. Take this time to relax and have some Language Arts style fun! We have a new game! The new game is called Storyman. I will show you how it works.

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

2. Game Rating-Now that you have had time to play our new game, send me an email with a brief review of the game. You should tell if you liked the game or not and why. Title your email "Game Review".

3. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your new words for the week. They come from our class novel. Take a few minutes to look them over.

4. 5x5x5-Since there are only 5 words this week, it makes perfect sense to do a 5x5x5. Here again are the directions.

*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.

5. Study Island-Head over to Study Island and complete 12 questions in the Settings assignment.

6. Class Novel-Grab a copy of The Outsiders and get reading.

7. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Remember to fully explain your answers.

How important do you think it is to know an item's history?

8. History Research-This week you are going to be flexing those research muscles and writing a research paper. You are going to pick one thing that you absolutely love, and then you are going to research that thing. You will need to find out the who created your item, when and where it was created and any other important information you can think of. You will then need to take that information and write a 300 word research essay on Google docs.

1/17 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday- It's FREE RICE Friday!. Chose whatever topic you want and get playing!

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Use this time to finish on your Word Boxes. Here are your Weekly Vocabulary Words.

3. Weekly Vocabulary Quiz-Let's rock! Quiz

4. Book Cover-Continue working on your Outsiders book cover. Here are the instructions again:

Like we did earlier in the year, you will be creating a book cover. This time instead of your library book, you will be creating a cover for our class novel, The Outsiders. This should be creative and colorful. It should contain what you consider to be the most important elements of your book. It should NOT look like the cover your book already has. On the back of your cover, write a short essay explaining why you chose the images you did. Your cover should contain at least 7 illustrated elements.

5. Summary Review-We are going to take this time to look over our passage from yesterday.

6. Class Novel-Grab a copy of The Outsiders, remember where you left off, and get reading!

7. Outsiders Google Doc-Answer the following question in your Outsiders Google Doc:

So far, which character in our book has been your favorite? Why have you liked this particular character so much? Do you identify with the character? Fully explain your answers.

8. Enlightenment Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching the Age of Enlightenment. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the Age of Enlightenment? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from the Enlightenment. Tell me who they were and why they were important to the Enlightenment.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from the Enlightenment. Explain why the dates you chose are important to the Enlightenment.

HOW-Explain in detail how the Enlightenment started. What happened before that led to this movement?

WHY-Why did this movement happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of the Enlightenment?

1/16 Thursday

1. Read and Respond - Scan through these interesting short articles and leave a detailed comment in an email titled "Read and Respond 1/16." You should comment on each story, and your comments should be detailed and well thought out.

• Eating Money
• Roll Cloud Roll
• Spiders in the Trees

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Use this time to continue working on your Word Boxes.Here are your Weekly Vocabulary Words.

3.  Book Cover-Continue working on your Outsiders book cover. Here are the instructions again:

Like we did earlier in the year, you will be creating a book cover. This time instead of your library book, you will be creating a cover for our class novel, The Outsiders. This should be creative and colorful. It should contain what you consider to be the most important elements of your book. It should NOT look like the cover your book already has. On the back of your cover, write a short essay explaining why you chose the images you did. Your cover should contain at least 7 illustrated elements.

4. Class Novel-Grab a copy of The Outsiders, remember where you left off, and get reading!

5. Outsiders Google Doc-Answer the following question in your Outsiders Google Doc:

So far, which character in our book has been your favorite? Why have you liked this particular character so much? Do you identify with the character? Fully explain your answers.

6. Summary-We are going to practice our literary summarizing skills one more time. Once again, we will be reading a myth. Make sure your Active Notes are awesome!

7. NC Write-Let's see how high we can get our scores on the "Being Different" prompt. 

8. Enlightenment Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching the Age of Enlightenment. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the Age of Enlightenment? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from the Enlightenment. Tell me who they were and why they were important to the Enlightenment.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from the Enlightenment. Explain why the dates you chose are important to the Enlightenment.

HOW-Explain in detail how the Enlightenment started. What happened before that led to this movement?

WHY-Why did this movement happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of the Enlightenment?

1/15 Wednesday

1. Game Time-We now have 7 games to choose from. Take this time to relax and have some Language Arts style fun! We have a new game! The new game is called Storyman. I will show you how it works.

Word Craze. 

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


2. Weekly Vocabulary-Use this time to continue working on your Word Boxes. Here are your Weekly Vocabulary Words.

3. Homophones-Today we are going to complete a Homophone worksheet.


4. Book Cover-Continue working on your Outsiders book cover. Here are the instructions again:

Like we did earlier in the year, you will be creating a book cover. This time instead of your library book, you will be creating a cover for our class novel, The Outsiders. This should be creative and colorful. It should contain what you consider to be the most important elements of your book. It should NOT look like the cover your book already has. On the back of your cover, write a short essay explaining why you chose the images you did. Your cover should contain at least 7 illustrated elements.

5. Enlightenment Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching the Age of Enlightenment. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the Age of Enlightenment? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from the Enlightenment. Tell me who they were and why they were important to the Enlightenment.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from the Enlightenment. Explain why the dates you chose are important to the Enlightenment.

HOW-Explain in detail how the Enlightenment started. What happened before that led to this movement?

WHY-Why did this movement happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of the Enlightenment?

1/14 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-Use this time to continue working on your Word Boxes. Here are your Weekly Vocabulary Words.

3. Summary Review-We are going to look at the passage from yesterday and discuss the correct answers. 

4. Homophones-Homophones can be very confusing for readers of any level. Today we are going to assess how well you know your homophones. 

homophone-One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.

5. Book Cover Weekly Project-Like we did earlier in the year, you will be creating a book cover. This time instead of your library book, you will be creating a cover for our class novel, The Outsiders. This should be creative and colorful. It should contain what you consider to be the most important elements of your book. It should NOT look like the cover your book already has. On the back of your cover, write a short essay explaining why you chose the images you did. Your cover should contain at least 7 illustrated elements.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

What do you think the word enlighten means? Why do you think so? How do you think this word might be used to describe a period of history?

7. Enlightenment-Today we are going to begin looking at the period in history referred to as "The Age of Enlightenment".

8. Enlightenment Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching the Age of Enlightenment. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the Age of Enlightenment? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from the Enlightenment. Tell me who they were and why they were important to the Enlightenment.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from the Enlightenment. Explain why the dates you chose are important to the Enlightenment.

HOW-Explain in detail how the Enlightenment started. What happened before that led to this movement?

WHY-Why did this movement happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of the Enlightenment?

1/13 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-Here are your Weekly Vocabulary Words. Take a few minutes to look them over and we will discuss them soon.

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 10 of your vocab. words to create 10 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

4. Inspirational Quotes- Which quote do you think more accurately represents your beliefs? Why? In your Norman Language Arts Google doc,  leave a detailed comment with your thoughts.

Friends are fine, but I don't really need them. When I'm alone, I'm one with myself and stronger because of it. 

Unknown Author

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

5. Summary Review-We are going to take a few minutes to go over the elements necessary to properly summarize a piece of literary text.

6. Summary Practice-You are going to read a short passage and answer some questions which should assess your summarizing ability. Don't forget to take good strong Active Notes (remember to focus your notes on setting, characters, conflict, plot and important events.)

7.  Book Cover Weekly Project-Like we did earlier in the year, you will be creating a book cover. This time instead of your library book, you will be creating a cover for our class novel, The Outsiders. This should be creative and colorful. It should contain what you consider to be the most important elements of your book. It should NOT look like the cover your book already has. On the back of your cover, write a short essay explaining why you chose the images you did. Your cover should contain at least 7 illustrated elements.

8. This Day in History-Go to the following website and look over some of the things that happened on this date in history. Pick 2 things which you think are important and send me an email (Titled: Today in History) explaining why you chose the 2 events that you did. Remember to fully explain your answers. 

9. Quiz-We are going to take a look at the quiz we took on Friday.

10. Greensboro 4- One of the most famous events in the entire Civil Rights movement took place in your own state. The Greensboro 4 stood up for something they believed in and succeeded in changing the entire nation. Sadly, one of the four, Franklin McCain, passed away a few days ago. We are going to take this time to discuss why the group's stand was so important. 

11. NC Write-Head over to NC Write and complete the prompt titled "Being Different."

1/10 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday-Learn new words, donate some rice to the needy, it's a WIN-WIN situation. It's FREE RICE time!!! Also, Cane Bucks will be given to the students with the highest scores!

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Finish up those 3-2-1s. Then I am going to see how well you know your words!

3. Outsiders Timeline-Let's see how well you can remember the important events from our class novel.

4. Story Elements-We are going to review the elements of story. Can you remember what they are? We will be adding one more element to our list.
-Plot
-Conflict
-Characters
-Setting
and....
-Important event

5. Summary-We are going to practice summarizing some different pieces of literature.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

“In your own words, explain what the Scientific Revolution was and why it was so important to the entire world. ”

7. Scientific Revolution Illustrated Timeline-You are to create a Scientific Revolution illustrated timeline. Your timeline should have at least ten events, people, places, or inventions. I would start by doing research, then creating your timeline.

Rubric:
Grammar/Overall Neatness=25 points
Creativity=25 points
Research/Information provided=50 points

1/9 Thursday

1. Would-You-Rather- Answer all three "would you rather" questions in your Language Arts Google Doc. Make sure to fully explain your answers.

Be the president or a king?

Write a bestselling novel, or hit a homerun in the World Series?

Go to Alaska or Hawaii?

2.   Read and Respond -Please read this article about Giant Snails. After reading, email me a comment about the article. Your comment should include your thoughts on the article. Was it disgusting? Do you think that could happen here? What would you do about it? Think about stuff like that and make sure to write at least five sentences.
Your email should be titled: Giant Snails

3. Outsiders Wordle-Go to Wordle and create a wordle that describes everything about our class novel, The Outsiders. Your wordle should describe the book and the characters.

Step 1: Go to Wordle

Step 2:  Create your word cloud by typing in words that describe your class novel. 

 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-Outsiders.

4. Story Elements-We are going to review the elements of story. Can you remember what they are? We will be adding one more element to our list.
-Plot
-Conflict
-Characters
-Setting
and....
-Important event

5. Summary-We are going to practice summarizing some different pieces of literature.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

Which of the inventions that originated during the Scientific Revolution do you think was most important to the entire world? Why do you think so?

7. Scientific Revolution Illustrated Timeline-You are to create a Scientific Revolution illustrated timeline. Your timeline should have at least ten events, people, places, or inventions. I would start by doing research, then creating your timeline.

Rubric:

Grammar/Overall Neatness=25 points
Creativity=25 points
Research/Information provided=50 points

1/8 Wednesday

1. BONUS-The first student who correctly emails me with the answer to the following question will receive 5 bonus points on their next quiz or assignment! This should be in your OWN WORDS and not copied and pasted.

Who was the first man to walk on the moon and what year did he do it?

2. Game Time-We now have 7 games to choose from. Take this time to relax and have some Language Arts style fun!

Word Craze. 

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

3. Outsiders Wordle-Go to Wordle and create a wordle that describes everything about our class novel, The Outsiders. Your wordle should describe the book and the characters.

Step 1: Go to Wordle

Step 2:  Create your word cloud by typing in words that describe your class novel. 

 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-Outsiders.

4. Story Elements-We are going to review the elements of story. Can you remember what they are? We will be adding one more element to our list. 

-Plot

-Conflict

-Characters

-Setting

and.... 

-Important event

5. Summary-We are going to practice summarizing some different pieces of literature.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

Explain in your own words why the printing press was so important to the Scientific Revolution. 

7. Scientific Revolution Illustrated Timeline-You are to create a Scientific Revolution illustrated timeline. Your timeline should have at least ten events, people, places, or inventions. I would start by doing research, then creating your timeline.

Rubric:

Grammar/Overall Neatness=25 points

Creativity=25 points

Research/Information provided=50 points

       

1/7 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-Take this time to study and/or work on your 3-2-1s. Here are your words. 

3.  Outsiders Wordle-Go to Wordle and create a wordle that describes everything about our class novel, The Outsiders. Your wordle should describe the book and the characters.
 Step 1:  Go to Wordle

Step 2:  Create your word cloud by typing in words that describe your class novel. 

 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-Outsiders.

4. Benchmark Tracking-I will email you your Benchmark scores. Once you have your two scores, you can enter them enter them into your spreadsheet. 

5. Story Elements-We are going to review the elements of story. Can you remember what they are?

6. Summary-We are going to practice summarizing some different pieces of literature.

7. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

How do you think the Renaissance may have helped start the Scientific Revolution?

8. Scientific Revolution Illustrated Timeline-You are to create a Scientific Revolution illustrated timeline. Your timeline should have at least ten events, people, places, or inventions. I would start by doing research, then creating your timeline.

1/6 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-Here are your Weekly Vocabulary Words. Take a few minutes to look them over and we will discuss them soon.

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. Benchmark Grade Tracking-We are going to use Google to begin tracking your grades on the Benchmark Assessments you will be taking this year. This will be a good way to monitor your progress.

5. Summarizing Literary Text-We have already covered how to summarize informative texts, and now we will focus on summarizing literary texts. For the most part, the same rules apply. When we were covering informational texts, we had two videos we watched to help us better understand how to summarize. Well we are going to re-watch them. 

6. Story Elements-To effectively summarize a piece of literature, you must first be familiar with the elements of a story. We will discuss each element. The elements are:

-Plot

-Conflict

-Characters

-Setting

7. Outsiders Wordle-Go to Wordle and create a wordle that describes everything about our class novel, The Outsiders. Your wordle should describe the book and the characters.

 Step 1:  Go to Wordle

Step 2:  Create your word cloud by typing in words that describe your class novel. 

 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-Outsiders.

8.  Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

What do you think when you hear the word "revolution"? Explain in your own words what you think the word "revolution" means.

9. Scientific Revolution-Today we will begin our unit on the Scientific Revolution.

10.Scientific Revolution Illustrated Timeline-You are to create a Scientific Revolution illustrated timeline. Your timeline should have at least ten events, people, places, or inventions. I would start by doing research, then creating your timeline. 

Rubric:

Grammar/Overall Neatness=25 points

Creativity=25 points

Research/Information provided=50 points

       

1/3 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday-Learn new words, donate some rice to the needy, it's a WIN-WIN situation. It's FREE RICE time!!! Also, Cane Bucks will be given to the students with the highest scores!

2. Grades-We are going to take this time to look at our grades in Powerschool. There are only a couple of weeks left of this 9 weeks so we need to get serious!

3. Vocab-Since you have only had your Weekly Vocabulary Words for a few days, I did not create a quiz. However, I want you guys to create a quiz using your words. Make sure you create 5 multiple choice questions. They should not be too difficult or too easy.

4. Book Recommendations-We are going to start filling up our Book Nook Wall. I want everyone in class to send me an email recommending 2 books that you have read and loved. You should give a brief description of each book and explain why you loved it so much. Send me you recommendations in an email titled "Last Name-Books" (ex. Norman-Books)

5. NC Write-Let's see if we can improve your scores from yesterday. 

6. Outsiders Wordle-Go to Wordle and create a wordle that describes everything about our class novel, The Outsiders. Your wordle should describe the book and the characters.

7. New Years Traditions Across the World-Many countries celebrate the holiday of New Years, but few celebrate it in the same way. Go to the following link and check out some of the many New Years celebrations from around the world. Next, you are to pick 6 different celebrations and create a Google Slide Presentation detailing the varying celebrations. Your presentation should be at least 12 slides long.

1/2 Thursday

Welcome back! The Holiday was awesome, but it is time to re-focus and get back to work!

1. ELA Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your ELA Google doc:

A New Year's resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to a project or the reforming of a habit, often a lifestyle change for the better.
What are three New Year's resolutions you would consider making? Why did you select these resolutions? Do you think you would be able to keep these resolutions for the entire year? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

2. Holiday Break-On a sheet of paper, list the top ten things that happened over your Holiday Break. Make sure you write in complete sentences and provide LOTS! of details.

3. Weekly Vocabulary-Remember our Vocabulary Words from two weeks ago? Well here is your chance to get reacquainted with them. Review your words. After reviewing your words, use them to create a short story. Your story must use all 5 words and must be AT LEAST 10 sentences long.

4. Class Novel-Let's see if we can remember what was happening in our class novel when we last read it. 

5. NC Write-You are to complete the NC Write prompt entitled 2013 Review.  Your essay should be at least 150 words long. 

6. Social Studies Warm-up-Answer the following question in your Social Studies Google doc.

What was so important about Global Trade? How did Global Trade change the entire world?

7. New Years' Traditions Across the World-Many countries celebrate the holiday of New Years, but few celebrate it in the same way. Go to the following link and check out some of the many New Years celebrations from around the world. Next, you are to pick 6 different celebrations and create a Google Slide Presentation detailing the varying celebrations. Your presentation should be at least 12 slides long.