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