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.