11/5 Wednesday

1. Game Time-We have a new game today! Its called Word Craze. Here's the instructions for the game:
Guess as many words as you can in under a minute. There is a catch though. Your words must match up with the target letter and position shown above a word. Words cannot be used more than once and they must be valid to score. Each letter contains a different value according to how often it appears in our dictionary.

Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your weekly vocab words. Take a few minutes to familiarize with your new words.

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 10 of your vocab. words to create 10 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

4. Short Story-If you did not finish The Lottery (and a lot of you did not!) use this time to do so. You guys will read the story on your own. Once you have finished reading, answer the following questions in Google doc titled "The Lottery" Make sure you share this doc with Mr. Norman. Remember to answer in complete sentences!

a. What happened at the end of the story? How did the ending make you feel?
b. What in the story might have helped you predict the kind of ending the story had?
c. What did the author do to set the tone for the story?
d. Why do you think the Village still does the Lottery each year?

If you have finished, either read from your library book or play some Wednesday games.

5. Scope Magazine-Let's finally get back to Scope Magazine.

6. Letter Home Assignment-This week you will be pretending that you are a crew member aboard one of the Age of Exploration voyages. You must follow these steps to complete the assignment:

1. Pick an expedition you think you would have liked to have been on.
2. Research all important information about that expedition (dates, locations, reasons for expedition).
3. Write a letter to your family as if you were writing from aboard a ship on an expedition.
4. Include in your letters the information you found in step number 2.
5. Type your letter in a new Google doc called Letter Home. Share it with Mr. Norman.

7. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.

What did you eat yesterday? Make a list of everything you had.

8. Columbian Exchange-We will begin discussing the Columbian Exchange and the impact it had on the entire world. Look at this chart which details some of the items involved in the Exchange. When you have finished looking at the chart, review the following picture detailing the Exchange. Does anything surprise you?