12/14 Thursday

1. Article of the Day-Head this website, log-in and get to reading! Make sure you take that quiz. This will go in grade book, so make sure to do your best!

2. Read Theory-When you have finished number 1, head to Read Theory

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

4. Slavery Unit-Today we will be finishing our notes.

5. 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. Facts must be written as complete sentences.

The Roots of Slavery
African Slave Owners
The Atlantic Slave Trade

12/13 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's get the day started with some games. Play at least one of our games.
NEW GAME ALERT.
Synonym Toast
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword

2. Christmas Carol-Let's take this time to finish our play.

3. Christmas Carol Assignment-In your ELA google doc., answer the following question:

How did the character of Ebeneezer Scrooge change over the course of the play? What parts of the story most contributed to his change? Do you think Scrooge will go back to his old ways of thinking?

4.Learning Farm- Head to Learning Farm and work on Plot.

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. Slavery Unit-Today we will be finishing our notes.

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 20 facts you learned from the 3 sites. You must have at least 4 facts from each site. Facts must be written as complete sentences.

The Roots of Slavery
African Slave Owners
The Atlantic Slave Trade

12/12 Tuesday

1. Creative Writing-Before we start our short story today, I want us to look a video that might help us creating a more suspenseful story.

2. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative! Your story needs to be AT LEAST 5 sentences long. Make sure your story is suspenseful.

3. Drama-Let's get back to our packets.

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

5. 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.

6. Middle Passage-We are going to read a passage pertaining to the slave trade.

7. Middle Passage Questions-Here are the questions for your passage. Answer them on the back of your passage.

12/11 Monday

1. Free Read-Nice and easy...

2. Edmentum-Work, work, work !!!!

3. Scrooge Review-Let's summarize what has happened so far

4. Drama-This is a different type of drama then you guys are used to...

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6.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.

7. Middle Passage-We are going to read a passage pertaining to the slave trade.

8. Middle Passage Questions-Here are the questions for your passage. Answer them on the back of your passage.

12/8 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday- Free Rice time!

2. Edmentum-Head there and work on your Reading path.

3. Scrooge Review-Let's review what we have read so far.

4. Scrooge Worksheet-Time to prove what we know.

5. Ready NC-Keep working on that packet.

GAMES-

Nike ID

Adidas

Superhero

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

7. Junior Scholastic-We are going to work on a very controversial issue today

8. Study Island-If you are finished with number 7, then head to Study Island and work those lessons. 

12/7 Thursday

1. Article of the Day-Head this website, log-in and get to reading! Make sure you take that quiz. This will go in grade book, so make sure to do your best!

2. Storyboard That-Here is Storyboard That. Let's create some accounts.

3. Learning Farm-If you are ok with your score, you can FreeRead.


GAMES-Nike ID

Adidas

Oregon Trail

Begscape

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. Junior Scholastic-We are going to work on a very controversial issue today

12/6 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's get the day started with some games. Play at least one of our games.
NEW GAME ALERT. Our new is called Synonym Toast and I will show you how it's played.

Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword

2. DOGO News-We are going to be trying out a new site. Head here and wait for instructions. 

3. MyPerspectives-Let's finish Act 1.

4. Storyboard That-Here is Storyboard That. Let's create some accounts.

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. Junior Scholastic-We are going to work on a very controversial issue today

12/5 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative! Your story needs to be AT LEAST 5 sentences long.

2. Main Idea Quiz-Let's review our quiz from last week.

3. MyPerspectives-Back to our play.

4. Learning Farm-Today is our last day to work on Main Idea!

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. Junior Scholastic-We are going to work on a very controversial issue today

12/4 Monday

1. Edmentum-Nothing says Monday morning like some good ol' Edmenetum!

2. MyPerspectives-Let's find out what this 3 ghosts are up to.

3. Interactions in Text-We are done (for now) with Main Idea. Our next unit will look at interactions within a text. Fun fun!

4. FreeRead-Relax and read.

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. Junior Scholastic-We are going to work on a very controversial issue today

12/1 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday- Free Rice time! You can choose your category.

2. Reading Passage-Let's see how well we can find main ideas.

3. New Website-We are going to try out a new website. It is called Storyboard That. Let's take a look.

4. FreeRead-Relax and read .

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. What's For Dinner?-Time to finish our assignment. Using the following links, tell me whether your individual ingridents (from your shopping list) are from the Old World or the New World. The links are here, here, and here.

7. If I Lived...-On the back of your What's for Dinner worksheet, there are 2 writing prompts. I will explain what I expect of you.