3/10 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?

-Create 2 EOG style questions based on the article

2. Context Clues-Being able to use context clues to figure out a word's definition is an extremely important skill when reading. See if you can figure out the definitions of the bolded words.

Liyana felt exhilarated by the skyscrapers. Their glittering lines lifted her out of her worry. She wished she could ride every sleek elevator up and down, punching buttons, seeing who got off and on.

Although pest like mice, cockroaches, and mosquitos sometimes seem to materialize out of thin air, by the 18th century just about everyone agreed that they born from parents of the same species, not from muck or swamp water.

3. Poetry Review-Let's get in our groups and see if we can break down a poem.

4. MDG Questions-Work on your questions. They are due tomorrow.

5. MDG Sequel-Use this time to work on those sequels. Make them awesome!

6. 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?

7. Study Island-We are going to work some more on Study Island-We are also going to go over some of the questions together.