5/11 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. Review-Today we will be reviewing theme.

3. Reading Passage-The closer we get to the EOG, the more reading passages we will be doing.

4. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your words for this week. Take a few minutes to scan over them.

5 7x7x7-This week, we will be using our words to create a 7x7x7. This works just like 5x5x5 except you use two more words. Here are the directions:

*Directions: Write each word and its definition seven times. When finished, create a paragraph with at least seven sentences that uses all seven words correctly. Make sure to underline the vocabulary words in your created paragraph.

6. Class Novel-Let's start chapter 7.

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. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

9. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

WHY-Why did this war happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/8 Friday

1. Free Rice- Free Rice time! Choose your own category!!

2. Main Idea-Let's do some Main Idea passages together and see how good we are...

3. Class Novel-Let's finish chapter 6. That fire seemed pretty serious!

4. Learning Farm-Continue working on your new packet.

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. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

6. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

7. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

WHY-Why did this war happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/7 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?

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you chose and why?

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

2. Outsiders-Let's review chapters 1-5.

3. Class Novel-Today we will read chapter 6.

4. Learning Farm-We will begin working on a Learning Farm worksheet packet.

5. Read Theory-Work for the rest of class on the Read Theory website. I will provide your usernames.

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?

7. WW1-We will continue looking at World War 1.

8. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

WHY-Why did this war happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/6 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's play our games.

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

2. Benchmark Review-Let's finish reviewing our Titanic passage.

3. Class Novel-Let's get back to our novel.

4. Main Idea-Let's continue reviewing main idea/theme/summary. Head over to this website again.

5. WW1-We will continue looking at what led to World War 1.

6. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

WHY-Why did this war happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/5 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 sad.

2. Benchmark Review-Today we are going to begin reviewing last week's benchmark.

3. Main Idea-We are going to review Main Idea and Summarizing.

4. Main Idea-Head over to this website and we will practice finding main idea.

5. Class Novel-Today we will review chapters 3 and 4 and we will read chapter 5.

6. Scope-Maybe we can get started on a new article.

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

What was Imperialism? Explain in your own words. 

8. WW1-We will continue looking at what led to World War 1.

9. World War 1 Reporter-A reporter's main job is to get answers to questions. You are going to spend the next few days researching World War 1. You will then answer, on a blank sheet of paper, the following questions:

WHAT-What was the World War 1? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

WHO-Pick 4 important people from WW1. Tell me who they were and why they were important to WW1.

WHEN-Pick and explain at least 3 important dates from WW1. Explain why the dates you chose are important to WW1.

HOW-Explain in detail how the WW1 started. What happened before that led to this war?

WHY-Why did this war happen? Why was it so important to the world? Why is it still important?

WHERE-What were some of the important locations of WW1?

5/4 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. Take a few minutes to look them over.

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)

3. Main Idea-We are going to continue our year-end review-This week we will focus on Main Idea and Theme.

4. Main Idea Activity-We are going to work on an activity that will assess our ability to find main ideas.

5.Class Novel- Today the class will read chapter 4 of our novel.

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?

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

What impact do you think the Industrial Revolution may have had on World War 1?

8. World War 1-Today we begin our unit on WW1.

5/1 Friday

1.  Free Rice- Free Rice time again!

2. 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?

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you chose and why?

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

3. Outsiders-Finish reading Chapter 3 of The Outsiders. When you have finished, answer the following questions in your Outsiders Google doc.

a. How does Cherry say that the Greasers and the Soc's are different?

b. How does Pony think Darry feels about him? Do you agree?

c. Why do you think Darry treats Ponyboy the way he does?

d. Why does Ponyboy try to run away?