10/21 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing: Look at the following picture. In your Language Arts Google doc, write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words.

2. Act-it-Out-We are going to take about 10 minutes to work on our skits.

3. Scope-We are going to be starting a new article. But first, we are going to complete a pre-reading activity.

4. Main Idea-Let's do some main idea finding together.

5. NC Write-Let's take one more day to work on the "Who am I?" prompt.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.
How do you think the world would have been different if Columbus had not discovered America?

7. Explorer's Map-Today you are going to continue working on a map which will trace the routes and give the reasons for exploration of 6 different explorers. These maps will need to be bright, colorful, and detailed!

Your map should include:
-Explorer's name
-Country they came from
-Route they took
-Years of their expedition
-Reason for expedition

List of Explorers (choose 6)
-Christopher Columbus
-Sir Francis Drake
-Hernando DeSoto
-Ferdinand Magellan
-Hernando Cortes
-Juan Ponce DeLeon
-Sir Walter Raleigh
-Henry Hudson
-Vasco da Gama
-Vasco de Balboa