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?