2/23 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 exciting!

2. Weekly Vocabulary Words-Your words for the week are dismal, dispel, eavesdrop, egregious, ember, emerge, engross, exasperation, exhilarate, falter. You are responsible for finding the words' defintions on Quizlet's list of 100 words every middle schooler should know.

3. 10x10x10-This week, we will be using our words to create a 10x10x10. This works just like 5x5x5 except you use 5 more words. Here are the directions:

*Directions: Write each word and its definition 10 times. When finished, create a paragraph with at least ten sentences that uses all ten words correctly. Make sure to underline the vocabulary words in your created paragraph.

4. Poetry Review-Let's look back on our poetry types and terms.

5. Poetry Assignment-It's time to flex our poetry writing muscles!

6. MDG-Back to the story! Here is your link.

7. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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. English Civil War-Let's get back to the fight!

9. English Civil War-Go to the following websites here and here. Read the information about the English Civil War. On a blank piece of paper titled "English Civil War" list 20 facts about this period of history. Make sure your facts are in complete sentences.