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