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Monday, January 26, 2015

1/26 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. Class Novel-Take this time to answer some questions from chapter 2 of our class novel.

3. Class Novel Reading
-We are now going to silently read chapter 3 from A Long Walk to Water. As you read, make sure you are filling in your reader's notes on your chart.

4. Weekly Vocabulary-You are to pick 7 words from chapters 1-3 of A Long Walk to Water to be your weekly vocabulary words. Now you can't complain about the definitions being too long! Follow these steps:
a. Go to Quizlet.com and create an account.

b. Using your book, pick 7 challenging words which you think would make good vocabulary words. Make sure your words aren't too easy and are not ones we have already done.

c. On a piece of paper, make a list of your words.

d. Go back to Quizlet and use your words to create a set. (I will walk everyone through this).

e. Use your words to create your Weekly Vocabualry project.

5.7x7x7-This week, we will be using our words to create a 7x7x7. This works just like 5x5x5 except you use two more words. Here are the directions:

*Directions: Write each word and its definition seven times. When finished, create a paragraph with at least seven sentences that uses all seven words correctly. Make sure to underline the vocabulary words in your created paragraph.

6. 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 the word enlighten means? Why do you think so? How do you think this word might be used to describe a period of history?

7. Enlightenment-Today we are going to begin looking at the period in history referred to as "The Age of Enlightenment".

8. Enlightenment Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching the Age of Enlightenment. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the Age of Enlightenment? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from the Enlightenment. Tell me who they were and why they were important to the Enlightenment.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from the Enlightenment. Explain why the dates you chose are important to the Enlightenment.

HOW-Explain in detail how the Enlightenment started. What happened before that led to this movement?

WHY-Why did this movement happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of the Enlightenment?

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