1/15 Tuesday

1. Common Assessment-This assessment will test us on standard R.I. 7.1. You guys are more than prepared, and I have total faith in you! Rock it out!

2. Wordly Wise-When you have finished number 1, work on activities 2B and 2C in your vocab. book.

1/14 Monday

1. Free Read-Reading Time!

2. Dirty Air-Let's review those questions from last week.

3. Weekly Article-New week, new article!

4. Wordly Wise-Head to page 14 and wait for instructions. 

5. CNN Student News-What's happening in our world 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 and after them?
-How long did they rule?
-How did their reign end?
-What wars were fought during their reign of power?
-How were they an absolute monarch?

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

1/11 Friday

1. Warm-Up-Free Rice...Free Rice....Free Rice

2. Dirty Air-Let's finish our packet.

3. Wordly Wise-Time for our new words!

1/10 Thursday

1. Wordly Wise-Use this time to study. Our quiz will be here before you know it!

2. Dirty Air Passage-Before we start back on our packets, we are going to watch some videos so we can better understand the Great Smog.

3. Dirty Air Passage-Let's use this time to finish our passage and answer some text dependent questions. As always, circle or underline where you are finding your answers.

4. Free-Read-Relax and read.

5. CNN Student News-What's happening in our world today?

6. Absolute Monarchy-We are going to review and then finish our notes.

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 and after them?
-How long did they rule?
-How did their reign end?
-What wars were fought during their reign of power?
-How were they an absolute monarch?

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

1/9 Wednesday

1. Inference Packet-We are going to review our packet from yesterday!

2. Dirty Air Passage-Before we start back on our packets, we are going to watch some videos so we can better understand the Great Smog.

3. Dirty Air Passage-Let's use this time to finish our passage and answer some text dependent questions. As always, circle or underline where you are finding your answers.

4. Wordly Wise-When you have finished number 3, grab a vocab book and read the story on page 7-8. On a blank piece of paper, answer questions 1-15.

5. CNN Student News-What's happening in our world today?

6. Absolute Monarchy-We are going to review and then finish our notes.

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 and after them?
-How long did they rule?
-How did their reign end?
-What wars were fought during their reign of power?
-How were they an absolute monarch?

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

1/8 Tuesday

1. Free Read-Turn down the lights and relax, it's time to read...

2. Wordly Wise-Back to our words! Click here and wait for further instructions.

3. Inference-We are going to do a lesson on making strong inferences.

4. Dirty Air Packet-Finish your packet!

5. CNN Student News-New week, new news...

6. Today in History-Go to the following website and look over some of the things that happened on this date in history. Pick 3 things which you think are important and send me an email (Titled: Today in History) explaining why you chose the 3 events that you did. Remember to fully explain your answers. My email is jeremynorman@pamlicoschools.org

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

After the decrease in the power of the church (due to the Reformation), who do you think stepped up to claim more power?

8. Absolute Monarchy-It's time to start our newest unit.

1/7 Monday

1. Free Read-Use this time to relax and read.

2. Wordly Wise-I will be passing out your books. On a blank piece of paper, Complete activities 1B and 1C.

3. Inferences-Before we go any further, we are going to practice making inferences.

4. Reading Passage-Our new passage is all about dirty air. Cough cough...

5. CNN Student News-New week, new news...

6. Today in History-Go to the following website and look over some of the things that happened on this date in history. Pick 3 things which you think are important and send me an email (Titled: Today in History) explaining why you chose the 3 events that you did. Remember to fully explain your answers. My email is jeremynorman@pamlicoschools.org

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

After the decrease in the power of the church (due to the Reformation), who do you think stepped up to claim more power?

8. Absolute Monarchy-It's time to start our newest unit.