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Thursday, December 1, 2016

12/1 Thursday

ELA

1. Weekly Vocabulary-Use this time to finish your 3-2-1s or study.

2. Learning Farm-Head over and begin working on the Summary lesson. If you can't get in, email me and I will help. You should work on this for about 20 minutes.

3. Short Story-Let's start our short story for the week. It is called The Lottery. You guys will read the story on your own. Once you have finished reading, answer the following questions in Google doc titled "The Lottery" Make sure you share this doc with Mr. Norman. Remember to answer in complete sentences!

a. What happened at the end of the story? How did the ending make you feel?
b. What in the story might have helped you predict the kind of ending the story had?
c. What did the author to set the tone for the story?
d. Why do you think the Village still does the Lottery each year?

4. FreeRead-If you have finished 1-3, you may read.

SOCIAL STUDIES
5. Warm-Up-In your Norman Social Studies Google doc, respond to the following writing prompt:

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

6. Slavery-Complete the following assignment:

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 20 facts you learned from the 3 sites. You must have at least 4 facts from each site.

The Roots of Slavery
African Slave Owners
The Atlantic Slave Trade

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