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.