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.