1/29 Friday

1. Free Rice- Free Rice time again!

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Work, work, work!!!!

3. MobyMax-Log in to MobyMax and await my instructions.

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

What do you think the word enlighten means? Why do you think so? How do you think this word might be used to describe a period of history?

5. Enlightenment-Today we are going to begin looking at the period in history referred to as "The Age of Enlightenment".

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

WHAT-What was the Age of Enlightenment? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

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

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

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

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

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

1/28 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?

-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. Reading Passage-It is time to review our passage from yesterday.

3. Weekly Vocabulary-Work on your word boxes and/or study.

4. 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?

5. History Research-This week you are going to be flexing those research muscles and writing a research paper. You are going to pick one thing that you absolutely love, and then you are going to research that thing. You will need to find out who created your item, when and where it was created and any other important information you can think of. You will then need to take that information and write a 300 word research essay on Google docs. Title your doc "History Research"

1/27 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Game Wednesday! Spend your first 5 minutes, playing Synonym Toast.

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your new words for the week. Take a few minutes to get to know them. 

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 11 of your vocab. words to create 11 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

4. Reading Passage-Time for some delicious SQUASH!!!

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. History Research-This week you are going to be flexing those research muscles and writing a research paper. You are going to pick one thing that you absolutely love, and then you are going to research that thing. You will need to find out who created your item, when and where it was created and any other important information you can think of. You will then need to take that information and write a 300 word research essay on Google docs. Title your doc "History Research"

1/26 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Try to use some of your vocabulary words. Be creative! The mood for your story should creepy.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your new words for the week. Take a few minutes to get to know them.

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 11 of your vocab. words to create 11 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

4. Text Structure-Let's go over our worksheet. 

5. Most Dangerous Game-Hopefully our website will work and we can start our story. Click here to access 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. History Research-This week you are going to be flexing those research muscles and writing a research paper. You are going to pick one thing that you absolutely love, and then you are going to research that thing. You will need to find out who created your item, when and where it was created and any other important information you can think of. You will then need to take that information and write a 300 word research essay on Google docs. Title your doc "History Research"

1/25 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 for the week. Take a few minutes to get to know them.

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 11 of your vocab. words to create 11 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

4. Text Structure-Let's see how well we remember our different text structures

5. Most Dangerous Game-Hopefully our website will work and we can start our 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. History Research-This week you are going to be flexing those research muscles and writing a research paper. You are going to pick one thing that you absolutely love, and then you are going to research that thing. You will need to find out who created your item, when and where it was created and any other important information you can think of. You will then need to take that information and write a 300 word research essay on Google docs. Title your doc "History Research"

1/21 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?

-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. Text Structure-Let's review!

3. Scope-It's time to finish our newest story.

4. Most Dangerous Game-Hopefully our website will work and we can start our story.

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?

1/20 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Game Wednesday! Be sure to play our new game Joy Words!

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

2. Text Structure-Today we will begin looking at the various ways a writer can structure a piece of writing and why they might do so.

3. Scope-Let's start our newest Scope story. I thought this one was fascinating.

4. Most Dangerous Game-Hopefully our website will work and we can start our story.

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?

1/14 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?

-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. 7x7x7-Unfortunately for you guys, that 7x7x7 isn't going to finish itself! 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.

3. Most Dangerous Game-We will be reading our new class story on the website called Actively Learn. Click here to activate your account.

4. Common Assessment-We are going to retake the Common Assessment and try our best to figure out what went wrong the first time. 

5. NC Write-Use this time to bring up that score on your newest prompt.

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?

1/13 Wednesday

1. Game Time-We have amassed quite the collection of games so far. Pick one and have some fun!

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

2. 7x7x7-Unfortunately for you guys, that 7x7x7 isn't going to finish itself! 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.

3.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?

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

What do you think when you hear the word "revolution"? Explain in your own words what you think the word "revolution" means.

5. Scientific Revolution-Today we will begin our unit on the Scientific Revolution.

1/12 Tuesday

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your words for this week.

3. 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.

4 Most Dangerous Game Predictions-We are going to look at some words and try to predict what they will mean for our new story. Making predictions is one of the skills that good readers possess.

5. Scope-We will now read the second of our paired texts.

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?

1/11 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. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your words for this week. Take a few minutes to look them over.

3. 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.

4. Judge a Book by its Cover-Below is the cover to our new class story. A cover is a very good way to try and determine what a book or story may be about. Using the cover below, make a list on a blank sheet of paper of images and details you see on the cover. What do these images tell you about our story. Finally, based on the images and details on the cover, make predictions about our new story.

5. Scope-It's time to start our new Scope article.

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?

1/8 Friday

1. Edutopia Sites-Edutopia is an awesome website with a ton of great resources for students and teachers. Head to this link and take a look at the various resources they have compiled. When you have finished playing around, send me an email titled, Edutopia Tryout" and tell me what your favorite links were. Be sure to explain why you picked what you did.

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

3. Weekly Vocabulary Quiz-Time to face the music!!!

4. Judge a Book by its Cover-Below is the cover to our new class story. A cover is a very good way to try and determine what a book or story may be about. Using the cover below, make a list on a blank sheet of paper of images and details you see on the cover. What do these images tell you about our story. Finally, based on the images and details on the cover, make predictions about our new story.

5. NC Write-You are to complete the NC Write prompt entitled 2015 Review. Your essay should be at least 150 words long.

Travelers Club

1/7 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?

-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-Use this time to work on your 3-2-1s. If you are finished, study for your quiz. If you are finished studying, study some more!

3. Judge a Book by its Cover-Below is the cover to our new class story. A cover is a very good way to try and determine what a book or story may be about. Using the cover below, make a list on a blank sheet of paper of images and details you see on the cover. What do these images tell you about our story. Finally, based on the images and details on the cover, make predictions about our new story.

4. Reading Passage-It is time to get back to sharpening our reading skills. Time to "SQUASH" another reading passage!

5. NC Write-You are to complete the NC Write prompt entitled 2015 Review. Your essay should be at least 150 words long.

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. African Slave Trade - Go to the following links and read more about the Slave Trade. As you are reading, you need to create a fact sheet containing 15 facts you learned from the 3 sites. You must have at least 2 facts from each site.

The Roots of Slavery
African Slave Owners
The Atlantic Slave Trade

1/6 Wednesday

1. Game Time-It's game time! We have a new game this week. It is called Before and After. It is somewhat similar to Storyman but with more words. Give it a try before you play any other games. 

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-We will not be working on our 3-2-1s today. Instead we will complete a different vocabulary assignment.

3. Scope-Take this time to finish your questions from yesterday.

4. Actively Learn-Next week we will be beginning our next class story. Today we will get logged in to the website that we will be using to read the story.

5. NC Write-You are to complete the NC Write prompt entitled 2015 Review. Your essay should be at least 150 words long.

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. Today in History-Go to the following website and look over some of the things that happened on this date in history. Pick 2 things which you think are important and send me an email (Titled: Today in History) explaining why you chose the 2 events that you did. Remember to fully explain your answers.

1/5 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 depressing.

2. 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 definition 2 times
Write 1 sentence using each of your vocab words (make sure you underline the vocabulary word)

3. Scope-We are now going to read another story from our Scope.

4 NC Write-You are to complete the NC Write prompt entitled 2015 Review. Your essay should be at least 150 words long.

5. Slavery Unit-Here are all the slides for our Slavery Unit. Take a few minutes and catch up on any notes you may have missed. 

1/4 Monday

Welcome back! The Holiday was awesome, but it is time to re-focus and get back to work!

1. ELA Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your ELA Google doc:
A New Year's resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to a project or the reforming of a habit, often a lifestyle change for the better.
What are three New Year's resolutions you would consider making? Why did you select these resolutions? Do you think you would be able to keep these resolutions for the entire year? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

2. Vocabulary-We are starting the new year a little differently in regards to our Weekly Vocabulary. I will give you a list of words from our newest Scope story and these will be your words for the week. Complete the following assignment using your new words.

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 definition 2 times
Write 1 sentence using each of your vocab words (make sure you underline the vocabulary word)

4. Scope-We are going to start using our Scope magazines a lot more in 2016. Let's start now!

5. NC Write-You are to complete the NC Write prompt entitled 2015 Review. Your essay should be at least 150 words long.

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.

If slavery is wrong, why has it existed for so many years?