1/7 Wednesday

1. Game Time-We now have 8 games to choose from. Take this time to relax and have some Language Arts style fun! We have a new game! The new game is called Storyman. I will show you how it works.

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

2. Read and Respond - Scan through these interesting short articles and leave a detailed comment in an email titled "Read and Respond 1/7." You should comment on each story, and your comments should be detailed and well thought out.

Eating Money
Roll Cloud Roll
Spiders in the Trees

3. A Long Walk to Water-Let's begin our new class novel.

4. NC Write-Continue working on your NC Write prompt.

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-In your Norman Social Studies Google doc, respond to the following writing prompt:

What might be some good things that might result from trading with another country or empire? What might be some bad things that could occur? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

7. Global Trade Market-This week we will be doing our Global Trade Unit. Here are the directions for your Social Studies Weekly Project:
The class will soon be visited by King Jeremy the First from the country of Normania. He is looking to enter into trade with another continent or empire. You and your group will research your assigned continent or empire and use props to represent the items which your area can trade. Your goal is to entice King Jeremy the First into entering into a trading partnership with your group. Every member of the group will speak, and the trade props must be explained. (Example-What is Silk, and why would King Jeremy need it?) Groups must have and present at least 4 trade items. King Jeremy likes to ask questions so BE PREPARED!

Groups:
Mughal Empire
East Asia
Africa
Ottoman Empire

Rubric
Research-25%
Presentation-25%
Creativity-25%
Cohesiveness of Group-25%