11/26 Tuesday

1. Thanksgiving Quiz-How well do you know Thanksgiving? Take this Thanksgiving Quiz and find out...

11/25 Monday

1.  CNN 10-We will watch and discuss.

2. Revolutions-We are going to start our look at revolutions around the world.

3. Revolution Timeline-Head to the website TimeToast and create an account. You are going to use TimeToast to create an online French Revolution timeline. Your timeline should be grammatically correct and have at least 12 events. Each event needs to have a picture attached. Good luck! Au revoir...

11/22 Friday

1. Cultural Literacy Terms-Let's see what you got!

2. Common Assessment-The students that need to finish will do do now. If you are finished, quietly read.

3. LOGOS-Let's finish our prefixes for Lesson 13

4. Class Novel-Can we finally get back to our book?

5. CNN 10-We will watch and discuss.

6. Revolutions-We are going to start our look at revolutions around the world.

7. Revolution Timeline-Head to the website TimeToast and create an account. You are going to use TimeToast to create an online French Revolution timeline. Your timeline should be grammatically correct and have at least 12 events. Each event needs to have a picture attached. Good luck! Au revoir...

11/20 Wednesday

DID YOU KNOW...Cats spend 2/3 of their lives sleeping...lucky!!!

1. Game-Play Storyman! I insist...

2. Free Read-Relax, read, reflect...

3. Class Novel-Finish your quiz!

4. Class Novel-Let's read!

5. CNN 10-We will watch and discuss.

6. Revolutions-We are going to start our look at revolutions around the world.

7. Revolution Timeline-Head to the website TimeToast and create an account. You are going to use TimeToast to create an online French Revolution timeline. Your timeline should be grammatically correct and have at least 12 events. Each event needs to have a picture attached. Good luck! Au revoir...

11/19 Tuesday

1. Free Read-It's Tuesday, might as well read!

2. Ready NC-Let's go over our last story together.

3. Class Novel-Keep working on your quizzes.

4. Class Novel-Back to reading our novel.

5. CNN 10-Let's see what is new in our world!

11/18 Monday

1. Free Read-Let's ease back in to school with some free reading...

2. Storyboard That-Here is Storyboard That. Go to the site and create an awesome scene summary for The Most Dangerous Game. In case you somehow forgot our awesome story, here it is!

3. CNN 10-New News

4. Enlightenment-Before the changes come the people must be enlightened!

5. Age of Enlightenment Timeline-You are to go this timeline and read about the events of the Age of Enlightenment. Once you have read the information, send me an email titled "Enlightenment Events". In the email list and explain in your own words 5 events that happened during the Age of Enlightenment.

11/15 Friday

1. Free Rice-I'm hungry! How much is that rice? That Rice is Free

2. Cultural Literacy Terms-I'll be coming around the classroom and checking your work.

3. Ready NC-Time to finish your packets.

4. Class Novel-Back to it!

5. CNN 10-

11/14 Thursday

DID YOU KNOW.....You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away.

1. Free Read-Use this time wisely.

2. Ready NC-More work with our shiny new standard!

3. LOGOS-He's got more great prefixes for us!

4. Class Novel-Poor Salva!

5. CNN 10-New news....hot off the presses!

11/13 Wednesday

1. Free Read-Quietly read!

2. BONUS-The first student who correctly emails me with the answer to the following question will receive 5 bonus points on their next quiz or assignment! This should be in your OWN WORDS and not copied and pasted.

What were the names of all 7 dwarves from the Disney movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?

3. Ready NC-Back to our new standard.

4. Words the Power Within-I wonder how Logos has been...

5. Class Novel-Back to the Sudan!

6. CNN 10-Wednesdays are less awesome than Fridays!!

7. Scientific Revolution Timeline-Go to the link for a Scientific Revolution timeline. On a blank sheet of paper and using the timeline, create a fact sheet containing 20 facts that you learned from the time line.

11/12 Tuesday

1. Game Time- Try out the game called Popword! It's awesome!

2. ReadyNC-Time For our new lesson!

3. Class Novel-Here we go...

4. Words the Power Within-I wonder how Logos has been...

WIN TIME!!!!!! 

5. CNN 10-I hope you guys had a good, long weekend!

6. 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.

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

 

 

11/8 Friday

1. Free Read-Relax and Read!

2. Reading Log-Head over to your ELA Google doc and answer the following question about your book.

What is the setting of your book? Cite one sentence that describes the setting. How would the story be different if the setting was completely different?

3. Free Rice-Free Rice is a game we play every Friday. It's an awesome way to start the day!


4. Article of the Week-Let's finish up our work on our article.

5. Class Novel-Let's discuss our predictions.

6. CNN 10-AZUZ!!!!!!!

MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT!!!



7. Louis XIV-Finish your packet

11/7 Thursday

DID YOU KNOW.....The day was named after the Norse god of thunder Thor. In the Norse languages this day is called Torsdag.

1. Article of the Week-Let's read our article of the week and try to figure out our Main Idea. Then we will need to find that Main Idea some Supporting Details. Main Ideas get lonely too...

2. PCMS Student-If you are interested in joining student the PCMS Student Voice, head to this link and apply!

3. Google Doc-You are to create and share a new Google doc titled: First Name Last name-Long Walk to Water.

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

5. CNN 10-News is fresh today!

6. Absolute Monarchy Project-Now that we are done with our notes, it is your turn to do some research. You are to pick an absolute monarch (from the list below) and with a group of 2 or 3, create a google slide show that answers the following questions about your monarch.

-What country did your monarch rule?
-Who was ruler before?
-Who was the ruler after them?
-How long did they rule?
-How did their reign end?
-What wars were fought during their reign of power?

Your slideshow must be:
-At least 6 slides long
-Grammatically correct
-Factually accurate
-Visually appealing

Here is the list of monarchs you can chose from:
Elizabeth the 1st
Phillip the 2nd
Frederick the 1st
Catherine the Great
Charles the 11th

7. Versailles-Head to website1 and website2 to take virtual tours of the Palace of Versailles. Try not to bother any of the people!

11/5

HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

11/4 Monday

1. Free Read-It's easy and it's free! Awesome!

2. Article of the Week-New week, new article!

3. Cultural Literacy Terms-This is something new that we will be starting this week. I will explain how it works.

4. Storyboard That-Head to this site and wait for my instructions.

5. CNN 10-News time!

6. Junior Scholastic-I need to check and make sure you guys finished this!

7. Absolute Monarchy Project-Now that we are done with our notes, it is your turn to do some research. You are to pick an absolute monarch (from the list below) and with a group of 2 or 3, create a google slide show that answers the following questions about your monarch.

-What country did your monarch rule?
-Who was ruler before?
-Who was the ruler after them?
-How long did they rule?
-How did their reign end?
-What wars were fought during their reign of power?

Your slideshow must be:
-At least 6 slides long
-Grammatically correct
-Factually accurate
-Visually appealing

Here is the list of monarchs you can chose from:
Elizabeth the 1st
Phillip the 2nd
Frederick the 1st
Catherine the Great
Charles the 11th