5/13 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-Keep working on your Crossword Puzzles.

3. Compare and Contrast Review-We will review our passage from yesterday. 

4. Most Dangerous Game Map Activity- You are going to create a map of Ship-Trap Island. You can find the story here. Your map should be creative, colorful, and contain important places from the story. Your map must have at least 6 spots marked on them and each spot must correspond with something from the book. You must also reference the spot in the story where your places are mentioned. This will need to be written on the back of the map.

5. Compare and Contrast-We are going to practice our comparing and contrasting skills! First, read  THREE LITTLE PIGS FABLE. Next, read  the wolf's version, the so-called TRUE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS.
When you have finished both, you will create a Venn Diagram which compares and contrasts the two stories. For an example, look at this VENN DIAGRAM. Complete your Venn Diagram on paper, filling in your circles with as many good details as possible.

6 Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Remember to fully explain your answers.

What do you already know about the Great Depression? Do you know of anyone who lived through the Depression?

7. Great Depression-Today we will begin looking at the causes of the Great Depression. 

5/12 Monday

1. Warm-Up-In your Norman Language Arts Google doc, answer the following question. Make sure to date your post, fully explain your answer, and use complete sentences.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your words for the week. Take a few minutes to get familiar with them.

3. Vocabulary Crossword-We are going to use our words to create a crossword puzzle. We have done this before and I expect the results to be better than the first time. Remember to write your clues on the back of your paper. Your clues should be challenging but not impossible. Here is a reminder of what a crossword puzzle should look like.

4. Compare and Contrast-Today we are going to begin looking at comparing and contrasting stories and informational text.

5. Compare and Contrast Activity-We are going to practice our new skills.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Remember to fully explain your answers.

What do you think could have been done to avoid another world war? Be sure to provide details.

7. League of Nations-Today we are going to look at the League of Nations.

5/10 Friday

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Finish your 3-2-1s.

3. Most Dangerous Game-Today is the last day to read our story.

4. MDG Review-When you have finished reading, I want you to write a review of our short story. Your review should tell me whether you liked the story or not. If you liked it, tell me why. If you did not like it, tell me why. Your review should be written on paper, use complete sentences, and provide lots of details to support your opinion. It should contain at least 100 words. 

5. NC Write-Keep working on your persuasive essay.

6. WW1 Essay-Keep working on your imperialism essay.

7. WW1 Essay 2-Head over to NC Write and complete the prompt titled, World War 1 Essay 2. 

5/8 Thursday

1. Game Time-Since we missed our game time yesterday, let's play today!!

Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Keep working on your 3-2-1s. 

3. Most Dangerous Game-Finish up your story.

4. NC Write-Keep working on your persuasive essay.

5. WW1 Quiz Review-Let's take this time to review our quiz.

6.NC Write-You are going to complete a WW1 essay on NC Write. Head over to NC Write and complete the essay titled World War 1 Essay 1. 

5/5 Monday

1. Warm-Up-In your Norman Language Arts Google doc, answer the following question. Make sure to date your post, fully explain your answer, and use complete sentences.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your new words for the week. Take a few minutes to get to know them. 

3. Weekly Vocabulary 3-2-1-Use all of your words to complete your 3-2-1 assignment. Here are the instructions:

Write each word 3 times
Write each word and definition 2 times
Write 1 sentence using each of your vocab words (make sure you underline the vocabulary word)

4. NC Write-Keep working on your Persuasive Essay.

5.  Most Dangerous Game-This is our last week reading our story. Get to work!

6. WW1 Review-Take this time to review for your quiz.

5/2 Friday

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Finish your 5x5x5s.

3. Comic Strip Creator

Below are 3 different comic creator websites. Check out all 3 sites and spend some time exploring. Once you have looked around, create at least 1 strip on each site.

Marvel Kids Comic Creator
Lego City Comic Creator
Strip Creator

After you have finished creating your strips, send me an email titled "Comic Strips." In your email you need to rank from best to worst the different comic strip creator sites. Have fun!

4. Most Dangerous Game-This is a good chance to catch up on your reading.

5. FitBrains-Let's play!

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

Who was Franz Ferdinand and what impact did he have on World War 1?

7. WW1 Websites-Go to the following World War 1 websites. Read the information contained on the sites. When you have finished, create a fact sheet containing 20 facts you have learned form the sites. Be sure you write in complete sentences and pull facts from all 3 sites. Here are the websites:

Link

Link

Link

5/1 Thursday

1. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Norman Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:

-What was the article's main idea?

-What text structure did the article use?

-Write a brief summary of the idea.


2. Analyze the Quotes-Read the following quotes. In your Language Arts Google doc, analyze each quote. What do you think the speaker meant? Why do you think this? How does this quote relate to you? Remember to write in complete sentences and to fully explain your answers.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them

No one can confindently say that he will be living tomorrow

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live

3 Most Dangerous Game Activity-You are going to write 3 journal entries, one each from the viewpoint of the following characters. These should be written on paper.
1. Rainsford
2. General Zaroff
3. Ivan
These journal entire should summarize what has happened before and give each characters' opinion on the events that have occurred so far.
Each journal entry should be at least 5 sentences long.

4. Most Dangerous Game-We have a lot to read before next week so get going!

5. NC Write-Keep working on your persuasive essays. 

6. WW1 Review-We are going to continue reviewing WW1

7. WW1 Game-Follow the link to our WW1 game called, Trench Warfare.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live

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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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