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?