3/20 Frid

1. Free Rice-It's Friday so that means it is Free Rice time. Once again you can pick your own category.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to finish your 3-2-1s, I will take them up soon.

3. Coach Packet-Finish you newest packet. We have time to start a new one.

4. Class Novel-We are going to do some work from our class novel.

5. Reading Google Doc.-Answer the following question in your Reading Google Doc.

What is the setting of our class novel. Make sure you include time and place. Also, how might the novel have been different if the setting had been different?

6. Independent Reading-Take this time to quietly read from your library book.

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

Would you risk your lives to fight for something that you really believed in?

8. People of the Revolution- You will be researching various important figures from both the American and French Revolutions.You will answer questions about each day's person in your Social Studies google doc. Make sure to use complete sentences. You will do all research necessary on your own. You must answer the following questions.

1. What was this person's full name?

2. Where and when was this person born?

3. Where and when did this person die?

4. Which revolution was this person involved with?

5. What was their importance to the revolution?

6. What are 3 interesting facts about this person?

Today's person is:

King George the 3rd

REMEDIATION-Try out this new vocabulary game

3/18 Wednesday

1. Game Time- It's Hump Day and Game Day!



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

2. NC Write-You are to now work on the prompt titled "Free Write 3/18."

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. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

4. People of the Revolution- You will be researching various important figures from both the American and French Revolutions.You will answer questions about each day's person in your Social Studies google doc. Make sure to use complete sentences. You will do all research necessary on your own. You must answer the following questions.

1. What was this person's full name?

2. Where and when was this person born?

3. Where and when did this person die?

4. Which revolution was this person involved with?

5. What was their importance to the revolution?

6. What are 3 interesting facts about this person?

Today's person is:

Benjamin Franklin

3/17 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 depressing.

2. Google Doc-You will be creating a new google doc. Your new doc. should be titled "Your Name-Reading Journal" (example-Jeremy Norman Reading Journal)

3. Weekly Vocabulary-You will need to create a Quizlet vocabulary set using the 10 words you have chosen for this week.

4. Literary Elements-We are going to keep look at the various literary elements.

5. Reading Passage-We are going to complete an Inference Reading Passage.

6. Coach Lesson 9-Today you will be starting work on Lesson 9.

7 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. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

8. People of the Revolution-Starting today you will be researching various important figures from both the American and French Revolutions.You will  answer questions about each day's person in your Social Studies google doc. Make sure to use complete sentences. You will do all research necessary on your own. You must answer the following questions.

1. What was this person's full name?

2. Where and when was this person born?

3. Where and when did this person die?

4. Which revolution was this person involved with?

5. What was their importance to the revolution?

6. What are 3 interesting facts about this person?

Today's person is:

George Washington

9. Revolution-Let's continue our revolutions unit. 

3/14 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-This week we are going to mix it up a bit. Here is a link to Quizlet's 100 words every middle school student should know. Go to the site and pick 10 words (make sure they are not ones we have used before.) This will be your vocabulary list for the week.

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. Point of View-Let's review!

5 Point of View Activity-You are going to write 3 sentences for each Point of View we have covered.

6. Class Novel-You are going to answer questions from chapter 10 of our class novel.

7. 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 already know about the American Revolution? Who was fighting and why?


What do you already know about the French Revolution? Who was fighting and why?

8. Revolutions-Today we are going to begin to look at revolutions.

3/13 Friday

1. Free Rice-It's Friday so that means it is Free Rice time. Once again you can pick your own category. If you guys do good, Mr. Norman gonna make it drizzle!

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take some time to study. Our quiz is coming soon. 

3. American Steel-Now let's see if we can bring those scores up!

4. Coach Lesson 7-Finish your coach packet.

5. Question of the Day-This is a new thing we will be doing from time to time in class. You will answer the question in your Language Arts google doc. Make sure you answer in complete sentences.

What is an inference? What are the two types of information that you need to make an inference

6. Inference Wordle Activity-We will be using Wordle to practice our inferencing skills. You are going to use Wordle to describe something that you LOVE! Be very descriptive and use as many words as you can think of. Here again are your Wordle instructions:

Step 1: Go to Wordle

Step 2: Create your word cloud by typing in words that describe something that you love!

Press "GO" when finished.

Step 3: Save your wordle to the public gallery, but do not put your last name in the description.

Step 4: Copy (control-c) the embed code at the bottom of the page






Step 5: Paste (control-v) the embed code into an email you will send to me. Your email should have the title "Norman-Wordle-Inference

7. 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 already know about the American Revolution? Who was fighting and why?

What do you already know about the French Revolution? Who was fighting and why?

8. Revolutions-Today we are going to begin to look at revolutions.

9. 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. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

3/11 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

-Create one E.O.G style question about the article.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Study your words. There will be a quiz tomorrow!

3. Common Assessment-Now is our chance to improve your assessment scores.

4. Coach Lesson-Work on your Literary Elements Packet.

5. Wordle-We are going to go back and use Wordle some more. This time, we are going to use the site to describe Pamlico County. Here are the instructions again:

Step 1: Go to Wordle

Step 2: Create your word cloud by typing in words that describe Pamlico County. Be expressive! Press "GO" when finished.

Step 3: Save your wordle to the public gallery, but do not put your last name in the description.

Step 4: Copy (control-c) the embed code at the bottom of the page

Step 5: Paste (control-v) the embed code into an email you will send to me. Your email should have the title "Norman-Wordle-Pamlico"

6. Readworks-Today, you will be doing a Readworks reading passage. Make sure you take good close reading notes.

3/11 Wednesday

1. Game Time- Time to get your game on!

Joy Words

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

2. NC Write-Continue working on our prompt from last week (Video Games)

3. Google Doc-You will be creating a new google doc. Your new doc. should be titled "Your Name-Reading Journal" (example-Jeremy Norman Reading Journal)

4. This Day in History-Go to the following website and look over some of the things that happened on this date in history. Pick 5 things which you think are important and send me an email (Titled: Today in History) explaining why you chose the 5 events that you did. Remember to fully explain your answers.

5. Glorious Revolution-We will now review.

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. Which story did you find most interesting?


3. What was interesting about this story?