12/19 Friday

1. Christmas Origins-I often say that the best way to fully appreciate something is to know its origin. With that in mind, you are to use the internet to research and find the origins of the following things associated with Christmas.

-Santa Claus
-Christmas Trees
-Gift giving
-Santa's Elves
-Christmas lights

Once you have researched the above things, create a Google presentation that explains in detail the origins of each the items listed above. Make sure your presentation has correct grammar, pictures, and good use of design and color.

2. Holiday Fun- Below are several links which will help get you in the holiday mood!! Enjoy!

-Holiday Puzzle
-Super Holiday Displays
-Super Holiday Displays 2
-Scared of Santa?
-Make a Carol
-Hannah wishes you a Merry Christmas!

3. Holiday Quiz-See how well you can do on this Holiday Quiz

12/17 Thursday

1.Fitbrains- Head back over to FitBrains and see what new games are available. A fit brain is a happy brain!

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?

-What was one thing about the article that you found fascinating? Explain your answer.

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

3. Gift of the Magi-Now that we have finished our story, head over to your ELA Google doc and answer the following questions:

a. How would the story have been different if the setting had been changed? Think of a different setting and explain what would have been different.

b. Was the ending of the story a happy or sad ending? Make sure to fully explain your answers.

c. If you could write a next chapter to the story, what would it be?

4. Christmas Origins-I often say that the best way to fully appreciate something is to know its origin. With that in mind, you are to use the internet to research and find the origins of the following things associated with Christmas.

-Santa Claus
-Christmas Trees
-Gift giving
-Santa's Elves
-Christmas lights

Once you have researched the above things, create a Google presentation that explains in detail the origins of each the items listed above. Make sure your presentation has correct grammar, pictures, and good use of design and color.

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. Holiday Infographic - Take a look at the following infographics. You will create a 9 question pop quiz based on the infographics. You must have 3 questions from each infographic. You will also need an answer key.

Most Popular Holiday toys
Christmas by the Numbers
Big Fat Christmas

12/16 Wednesday

1. Game Time- Game time!

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

2.Fitbrains- Head back over to FitBrains and see what new games are available. (Hopefully you can remember your log-ins)

3. Weekly Vocab-Work on that vocab.

4. Gift of the Magi-Let's finish our story. 

5. Christmas Origins-I often say that the best way to fully appreciate something is to know its origin. With that in mind, you are to use the internet to research and find the origins of the following things associated with Christmas.

-Santa Claus
-Christmas Trees
-Gift giving
-Santa's Elves
-Christmas lights

Once you have researched the above things, create a Google presentation that explains in detail the origins of each the items listed above. Make sure your presentation has correct grammar, pictures, and good use of design and color.

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.

What is something that you have always wondered about slavery but have never asked?

12/15 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words.

2. 5x5x5-Keep working on your weekly vocabulary assignment. Here again are the directions.

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

3. Setting-Let's review our setting worksheet.

4. Gift of The Magi-You will finish our Christmas short story, The Gift of the Magi.

5. Gift of the Magi Questions-Head to this site and answer the questions from your 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.Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.

Where and when do you think slavery started? Why do you think this? Remember to explain your answers.

8. Slavery Unit-Today we will be beginning our Slavery unit.

12/14 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-This week, our Vocabulary Words come from our short story. Take some time to get to know these words.

3. 5x5x5-Since there are only 5 words this week, it makes perfect sense to do a 5x5x5. Here again are the directions.

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

4. Setting-It is time again to test our skills at finding setting.

5. NC Write-Today you will be using NC Write to create a short story about Christmas. The prompt is titled "Christmas Short Story." Your story must begin with the sentence "It was getting late and Santa Claus was already running behind......" Your story should be creative and contain at least 200 words.

6. Gift of the Magi-You will begin reading our Christmas short story, The Gift of the Magi.

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. Middle Passaage-We will now go over your reading passage and the questions you created.

12/11 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday- Free Rice Friday.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Use this time to finish your words.

3. Setting-Let's go over our setting worksheets.

4. Red Literature-Use this time to finish your story and questions from yesterday.

5. NC Write-Today you will be using NC Write to create a short story about Christmas. The prompt is titled "Christmas Short Story." Your story must begin with the sentence "It was getting late and Santa Claus was already running behind......" Your story should be creative and contain at least 200 words.

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. Middle Passage-You will be reading a passage on the slave trade. When you have finished reading, you will need to create a 10 question pop quiz on the passage.

12/10 Wednesday

1. Game Time- Let's start this morning right! It's game time!

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take about 10 minutes to work on your vocab.

3. Antonym Review-We will review the worksheet from yesterday. 

4. Setting-Let's also review our setting worksheet.

5. Red Literature-Use this time to finish your story and questions from yesterday.

6. NC Write-Today you will be using NC Write to create a short story about Christmas. The prompt is titled "Christmas Short Story." Your story must begin with the sentence "It was getting late and Santa Claus was already running behind......" Your story should be creative and contain at least 200 words.

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?

12/9 Wednesday

As you can see, I am out sick today! This does not mean that I expect anything less from you. I have instructed the sub to write down the names of any student who does not perform as expected. If your name is written down, expect consequences! 

ELA

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?

-What was one thing about the article that you found fascinating? Explain your answer.

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Keep working on your 3-2-1s. Work on these for 20 minutes. 

3. Antonyms-Let's see how well we know antonyms. Grab a worksheet from the sub. When you have finished, turn in to the sub. 

4. Red Literature Book-Today we are starting our new story. You are to read the story "Strong Men Weep" on pages 26-31. When you finish reading, answer all 10 questions on page 32 in your Textbook Google doc.

SOCIAL STUDIES

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

What was one thing that you learned about your food (that you did your presentation on) that you found interesting, cool, weird, or confusing?

8. Triangle Trade- Go to the following website and wait for my instructions.

9. Triangle Trade Facts- Go to the following websites. Read the information they contain about the Triangle Trade. Once you have visited all the websites, create on a blank piece of paper a Triangle Trade fact sheet. Your fact sheet should contain at least 20 facts. Your facts need to be written in complete sentences. Turn in once you have finished. The websites are here, here, and here

MAKE SURE TO TURN THESE IN WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED!!!!!

Enrichment-Head over to Readtheory and get to reading. I will be checking from home to make sure you are working. The sub will have your passwords. 

12/8 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words



2. Weekly Vocabulary-This week we are going to mix it up a bit. Here is a link to Quizlet's 100 words every middle school student should know. Go to the site and pick 10 words (make sure they are not ones we have used before.) This will be your vocabulary list for the week.

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)

4. Red Literature-Grab a copy of the Red Literature book and await further instructions.

5. Setting-If you have not done so, head over to Learning Farm and keep working til you get a medal on Setting. 

6. FreeRead-If you have your medal get out your book and read quietly.

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. Triangle Trade-Today, we will begin looking at the Triangle Trade. Go to the following website and wait for my instructions.

9. Triangle Trade Facts- Go to the following websites. Read the information they contain about the Triangle Trade. Once you have visited all the websites, create on a blank piece of paper a Triangle Trade fact sheet. Your fact sheet should contain at least 20 facts. Your facts need to be written in complete sentences. Turn in once you have finished. The websites are here, here, and here.

12/7 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-This week we are going to mix it up a bit. Here is a link to Quizlet's 100 words every middle school student should know. Go to the site and pick 10 words (make sure they are not ones we have used before.) This will be your vocabulary list for the week.

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)

4. Setting-We are going to finish up working on Setting on Learning Farm.

5. Red Literature-Grab a copy of the Red Literature book and await further instructions. 

12/4 Friday

1. Joy Journal-This is something new we are going to try to do at least once a month. In your ELA Google doc, I want you to list 10 things that you are either thankful for or that make you happy. Make sure you fully explain your answers.

2. Weekly Vocab-Take this time to finish your Word Boxes and/or study your words.

3. Vocab Quiz-Mr. Norman is a man of his word, and just like he promised...it's quiz time!

4. Setting-Holy smokes will we ever talk about setting??????

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. Food Project-In groups of 2 or 3, you will be creating a Google presentation on a certain food. I will be selecting each group's food. You will thoroughly research your food and use the information you find to answer the following questions:

-Name of Food
-Other names for the food
-Country of origin (where did it come from)
-Number consumed each year
-Various uses for food
-Different varieties of food
-One awesome recipe using your food!

Your presentation should be at least 9 slides (including a title page.) You should also include pictures.

GEEEEKKKK

12/3 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?

-What was one thing about the article that you found fascinating? Explain your answer.

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

2. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 8 of your vocab. words to create 8 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

3. Finish-Up-We will use this time to work on either our NC Write and/or our Textbook questions. 

4. Setting-Let's look at setting!

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. Food Project-In groups of 2 or 3, you will be creating a Google presentation on a certain food. I will be selecting each group's food. You will thoroughly research your food and use the information you find to answer the following questions:

-Name of Food
-Other names for the food
-Country of origin (where did it come from)
-Number consumed each year
-Various uses for food
-Different varieties of food
-One awesome recipe using your food!

Your presentation should be at least 9 slides (including a title page.) You should also include pictures.

12/2 Wednesday

1. Game Time- 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. 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?

3. Food Project-In groups of 2 or 3, you will be creating a Google presentation on a certain food. I will be selecting each group's food. You will thoroughly research your food and use the information you find to answer the following questions:

-Name of Food
-Other names for the food
-Country of origin (where did it come from)
-Number consumed each year
-Various uses for food
-Different varieties of food
-One awesome recipe using your food!

Your presentation should be at least 9 slides (including a title page.) You should also include pictures.

12/1 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words. Your tone should be exciting!

2. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 8 of your vocab. words to create 8 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

3. Red Literature Book-Grab your book, and turn back to page 19. We are going to go over our questions.

4. NC Write-Use this time to finish your Thanksgiving themed NC Write prompt.

5. FreeRead-I am ready to get back to my book, so let's read!

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. Food Project-In groups of 2 or 3, you will be creating a Google presentation on a certain food. I will be selecting each group's food. You will thoroughly research your food and use the information you find to answer the following questions:

-Name of Food
-Other names for the food
-Country of origin (where did it come from)
-Number consumed each year
-Various uses for food
-Different varieties of food
-One awesome recipe using your food!

Your presentation should be at least 9 slides (including a title page.) You should also include pictures.