5/29 Friday

1. Free Rice-It's Friday so that means it is Free Rice time. Stick to the vocabulary words today.

2. EOG Practice-Head over to this website and complete at least 4 tests.

3. Reading Passage Review-Let's take this time to review our passage from yesterday.

4. Most Dangerous Game-Let's see how Rainsford is doing.

5. ReadTheory-Head over and start reading!

6. 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?


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5/28 Thursday

1. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:-What was the topic of the article?

-What was the article's main idea? Supporting details?

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you chose and why?

-Create one E.O.G style question about the article.

2. Plug-In Cars-Let's review our newest passage.

3. Most Dangerous Game-First we will have a little background information, and then we will get to our reading.

4. Reading Passage-It is time to start our new passage.

5. Great Depression-We are going to finish up looking at the Great Depression today. The following article contains an excellent overview of the Depression. Read carefully!

6. Great Depression Questions- On a blank sheet of paper, answer the following questions You do not have to rewrite the question, but your answers need to be in complete sentences.

1. Who was the President of the United States when the Great Depression began?

2. What happened on October 29th, 1929?

3. Why was this depression so hard on farmers?

4. What does the quote "ride the rails" refer to?

5. What was a "Hoover Wagon"?

6. What U.S. President created the New Deal?

7. Name two different New Deal programs.

8. What finally ended the Great Depression? Explain why it did.

5/27 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Games, games, games!!!!!

Switchword.
Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Election Fever-We will use this time to go over the Election Fever passage.

3. Plug-In Cars-Use this time to finish your second passage.

4. EOG Practice-Head over to this website and complete the first 4 tests. We will go over them as a class.

5. Most Dangerous Game-Today we will begin our final story for the year. Click here for the story.

6.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?

7. Great Depression-We are going to finish up looking at the Great Depression today. The following article contains an excellent overview of the Depression. Read carefully!

8. Great Depression Questions- On a blank sheet of paper, answer the following questions  You do not have to rewrite the question, but your answers need to be in complete sentences.

1. Who was the President of the United States when the Great Depression began?

2. What happened on October 29th, 1929?

3. Why was this depression so hard on farmers?

4. What does the quote "ride the rails" refer to?

5. What was a "Hoover Wagon"?

6. What U.S. President created the New Deal?

7. Name two different New Deal programs.

8. What finally ended the Great Depression? Explain why it did.

5/26 Tuesday

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. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative! The mood for your story should be exciting!

3. Reading Passage-Let's review our Jury Duty passage

4. Summarizing-Summarizing is an important tool when reading. Head over to this website and we will work on this activity together.

5. Reading Passage-We will start our newest passage today.

6. NC Write-Keep working on your prompt from last week.

7. 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?

8. Great Depression-Today we will begin looking at the causes of the Great Depression.

5/22 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday- Free Rice time! Stay on the Vocabulary category. Mr. Norman may be walking around with some candy...just saying....

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to finish your project and to study.

3. Outsiders Review-Head over to your Outsiders Google doc and write a review of our class novel. Your review should include your feelings about the book. Did you enjoy the book? If yes, what did you enjoy about it. If no, tell me what you did not like. Also, tell me about your favorite and least favorite characters. Why did you feel this way about these particular characters. And finally, tell me what you thought the theme of the book was and why you think so. Make sure you use complete sentences and fully explain your ideas.

4. Reading Passage-Today our passage will be about the jury system. 

5. NC Write-When you have finished your passage, work on your newest prompt.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Remember to fully explain your answers.

What do you already know about the Great Depression? Do you know of anyone who lived through the Depression?

7. This Day in History-Go to the following website and look over some of the things that happened on this date in history. Pick 4 things which you think are important and send me an email (Titled: Today in History) explaining why you chose the 4 events that you did. Remember to fully explain your answers.

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5/21 Thursday

1. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:-What was the topic of the article?

-What was the article's main idea? Supporting details?

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you chose and why?

-Create one E.O.G style question about the article.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to study and/or work on your weekly projects.

3. Reading Passage Review-We will now go over our passage from yesterday.

4. Summarizing-Summarizing is an important tool when reading. Head over to this website and we will work on this activity together.

5. Class Novel-Let's finish our book.

6. NC Write-Continue working on your new prompt titled, "7th Grade Review."

7. 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?

8. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Remember to fully explain your answers.

What do you already know about the Great Depression? Do you know of anyone who lived through the Depression?

9. Great Depression-Today we will begin looking at the causes of the Great Depression.

5/20 Wednesday

1. Game Time-It's game time! Holy smokes look at all those games!

Switchword.
Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Reading Passage-Let's review our poem from yesterday.

3. Class Novel-Let's see if we can finish our book.

4. Reading Passage-We will begin our newest passage.

5. NC Write-Head over to NC Write and work on your newest prompt, 7th Grade Review.

6. 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?

7. WW1-Use this time to review your notes.

8. WW1 Game-Follow the link to our WW1 game called, Trench Warfare.

5/19 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative! The mood for your story should be exciting!

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to work on your vocab.

3. Class Novel-Let's go over our questions for today and read the next chapter.

4. NC Write-Head over to NC Write and work on your newest prompt, 7th Grade Review. 

5. Reading Passage-Today's reading passage is a poem. Good luck!

6. 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?

7. WW1-Use this time to review your notes.

8. WW1 Game-Follow the link to our WW1 game called, Trench Warfare.

5/18 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. Weekly Vocabulary-As sad as it makes me to tell you, this is our LAST weekly vocabulary. Here are your words. You are to chose your weekly assignment. You must chose from the following.

-3-2-1

-Word Boxes

-8x8x8

3. Class Novel-Let's get ready to RUMBLE!!!!!!!

4. Reading Passage-Let's try to finish up our packet from last week.

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. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

5/15 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday- Free Rice time! You can choose your category.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to study and /or finish your 7x7x7s.

3. Class Novel-Let's get back to our novel.

4.Reading Passage-Continue working on your packet.

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. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

7. WW1 Websites-Go to the following World War 1 websites. Read the information contained on the sites. When you have finished, create a fact sheet containing 20 facts you have learned form the sites. Be sure you write in complete sentences and pull facts from all 3 sites. Here are the website

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5/14 Thursday

1. Article Review-Read the following article . After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:-What was the topic of the article?

-What was the article's main idea? Supporting details?

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you chose and why?

-Create one E.O.G style question about the article.

2. Class Novel-Let's read chapter 8!

3. Class Novel-You will now need to answer some questions on your Outsiders Google doc.

4. Reading Passage-Time for a new passage.

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. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

7. WW1 Websites-Go to the following World War 1 websites. Read the information contained on the sites. When you have finished, create a fact sheet containing 20 facts you have learned form the sites. Be sure you write in complete sentences and pull facts from all 3 sites. Here are the websites:


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5/14 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's play our games.
Switchword.
Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Reading Passage Review-Let's take a look at our passage from yesterday.

3. Class Novel-We will finish up chapter 7. When we are done, you need to summarize chapter 7 in your Outsiders Google doc.

4. Reading Passage-It is time to work on our new passage.

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-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

Who was Franz Ferdinand and what impact did he have on World War 1?

7. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

5/12 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative! The mood for your story should be happy!

2. Reading Passage-Take this time to complete your newest reading passage.

3. Weekly Vocabulary-When you finish number 1, work on your vocabulary.

4. Class Novel-Let's finish chapter 7.

5. Theme-Practice finding theme.

6. 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?

7. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

Who was Franz Ferdinand and what impact did he have on World War 1?

8. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

5/11 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. Review-Today we will be reviewing theme.

3. Reading Passage-The closer we get to the EOG, the more reading passages we will be doing.

4. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your words for this week. Take a few minutes to scan over them.

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. Class Novel-Let's start chapter 7.

7. 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?

8. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

9. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

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

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/8 Friday

1. Free Rice- Free Rice time! Choose your own category!!

2. Main Idea-Let's do some Main Idea passages together and see how good we are...

3. Class Novel-Let's finish chapter 6. That fire seemed pretty serious!

4. Learning Farm-Continue working on your new packet.

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. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

7. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

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

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/7 Thursday

1. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:
-What was the topic of the article?

-What was the article's main idea? Supporting details?

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you chose and why?

-Create one E.O.G style question about the article.

2. Outsiders-Let's review chapters 1-5.

3. Class Novel-Today we will read chapter 6.

4. Learning Farm-We will begin working on a Learning Farm worksheet packet.

5. Read Theory-Work for the rest of class on the Read Theory website. I will provide your usernames.

6. 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?

7. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

8. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

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

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/6 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's play our games.

Switchword.
Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Benchmark Review-Let's finish reviewing our Titanic passage.

3. Class Novel-Let's get back to our novel.

4. Main Idea-Let's continue reviewing main idea/theme/summary. Head over to this website again.

5. WW1-We will continue looking at what led to World War 1.

6. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

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

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/5 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative! The mood for your story should be sad.

2. Benchmark Review-Today we are going to begin reviewing last week's benchmark.

3. Main Idea-We are going to review Main Idea and Summarizing.

4. Main Idea-Head over to this website and we will practice finding main idea.

5. Class Novel-Today we will review chapters 3 and 4 and we will read chapter 5.

6. Scope-Maybe we can get started on a new article.

7.Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

What was Imperialism? Explain in your own words. 

8. WW1-We will continue looking at what led to World War 1.

9. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

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

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/4 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. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your new words. Take a few minutes to look them over.

3. Weekly Vocabulary 3-2-1-Use all of your words to complete your 3-2-1 assignment. Here are the instructions:
Write each word 3 times
Write each word and definition 2 times
Write 1 sentence using each of your vocab words (make sure you underline the vocabulary word)

3. Main Idea-We are going to continue our year-end review-This week we will focus on Main Idea and Theme.

4. Main Idea Activity-We are going to work on an activity that will assess our ability to find main ideas.

5.Class Novel- Today the class will read chapter 4 of our novel.

6. 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?

7. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

What impact do you think the Industrial Revolution may have had on World War 1?

8. World War 1-Today we begin our unit on WW1.

5/1 Friday

1.  Free Rice- Free Rice time again!

2. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:

-What was the topic of the article?

-What was the article's main idea? Supporting details?

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you chose and why?

-Create one E.O.G style question about the article.

3. Outsiders-Finish reading Chapter 3 of The Outsiders. When you have finished, answer the following questions in your Outsiders Google doc.

a. How does Cherry say that the Greasers and the Soc's are different?

b. How does Pony think Darry feels about him? Do you agree?

c. Why do you think Darry treats Ponyboy the way he does?

d. Why does Ponyboy try to run away?