1) New seats activity!
2) Reading quiz
4) Empires Falling activity
5) Ernie's Ark themes activity
Adminastrivia and Notices:
--Being absent
Vocab Quiz
Re-read a story in Ernie's Ark
All stories must be covered
Circle: What's going to be out in 5 years.
New Groups Activity
Lower the conduit
Introduction about Rome and the Eight Features of Civilization
In order to understand why the fall of Rome is such a big deal, we need to see why Rome was soo cool. We'll look at how cool the Roman Empire was.
VIDEO
You will be taking notes on why Rome was great.
You will be presenting about how you can prove Rome was great based on your notes on the movie and how it fits into the Eight Features of Civilization.
Empires Falling
Download this document about why the Roman Empire fell.
Task: We'll be reading one paragraph at a time with the goal of reporting out, in the simplest way possible, why Rome fell.
Target: Explain 13 reasons why empires fall.
Target: By the end of class, you will know how to read at the speed of comprehension AND be better at chunking sentences into manageable parts.
Homework for Honors (See Google Classroom to Submit)
Your assignment will be to take 3 of the reasons Rome fell and find its contemporary counterpart. You will need to find three articles in the news that line up with three of the reasons Rome fell. You will need to include a short summary of the article as well as a link to the article. You will also need to defend in a paragraph why you think it compares with Rome. This is due Wednesday.
Homework for All
Read one story from Ernie's Ark and become an expert on it.
Future:
Common Assessment for ELA
Interesting fact about Rome/Presentation
-Bizarre American tradition or fact
-Something we do today that we got from the Romans
Planning for Downtown Norway -- investigating to answer some questions
Food grant
Computer Etiquette
Note taking
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