2/12 Monday

1. Class Novel-Let's read chapter 3.

2. Small Groups-I am going to assign your new small groups, you will then get in your groups for a new assignment.

3. Learning Farm-Work on bringing those grades up. 

4. CNN Student News-Now for news

5. French Revolution-Back to it

2/8 Friday

1. Vocab Quiz-It's time!!!

2. Long Walk to Water-Let's check out chapter 2.

3. Long Walk to Water Google Doc.- Answer the following questions in your new Google doc.

1.What can you infer about Salva’s village from this excerpt: “A dozen or so people stood by the side of the road. Salva scanned their faces. There was no one from his family. He recognized a few people--a woman with a baby, two men, a teenage girl--but no one he knew well.” (pages 9-10)

2A Find a simile on page 8, and write it below: 

2B What does the author mean by this figure of speech? 

3. Why do you think Salva woke up in the barn to find all of the other villagers gone?

2/7 Thursday

1. Class Novel-Let's discuss what you guys thought about the cover.

2. Long Walk Read Aloud-Let's get started!

3. Long Walk Google Doc.-Copy and paste the table bellow into your google doc.

	Salva	Nya
Who?
When?
What (are they doing in this chapter)

2/6 Wednesday

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. Scope-Now it's time to read your second article this is also about an invasive species.

3. Class Novel-We are going to be starting our new class novel soon! First, you are to create and share a new Google doc titled: First Name Last name-Long Walk to Water.

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.

4. Learning Farm- Start work on Assignment 2

5. Homework-You are to finish summarizing the dog training passage. Also, you will need to answer the questions.

6. CNN Student News-New News is always exciting!

7. 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: Why is Mr. Norman so awesome?) explaining why you chose the 3 events that you did. Remember to fully explain your answers. My email is jeremynorman@pamlicoschools.org

8. French Revolution-Let's see how the French revolt!

2/5 Tuesday

1. Free Read-Relax with a good book.

2. Wordly Wise-Work on activity 4D.

3. Scope-Finish your lionfish article and we will read about another invasive species....

4. Learning Farm-Start work on Assignment 2

5. Homework-You are to finish summarizing  the dog training passage. Also, you will need to answer the questions.

2/4 Monday

1. Free Read-Monday.....not a fan! Grab a book and show Monday who's boss!

2. Close Reading-Let's get put our dog training packet and continue working on our close reading skills.

3. Scope Magazine-We are starting a new article from Scope about invasive species. Sounds interesting!

4. Learning Farm-If we have time, we are going to sharpen our skills on the farm.

WIN Time-If you are in Mrs. Rust's class for Win time, you need to grab a computer and head to this link

5. CNN Student News-Time for news.

6. Revolutions-We are going to review the American Revolution and start looking at the French today!

2/1 Friday

1. Free Read-Read quietly!

2. Wordly Wise-Work on assignments 4A and 4B.

3. Reading Passage-We need more practice with text structure.

4. Learning Farm-Time to work those fields!