Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

The Day In a Nutshell:
1) New seats activity!
2) Reading quiz
3) Vocabulary activity
4) Empires Falling activity
5) Ernie's Ark themes activity

Adminastrivia and Notices: 
--Dress for Thursday
--Class website & Google classroom

Circle: Best elementary teacher.

New Groups Activity
1) Lower the conduit
2) Build your nations' flag
-Create a Flag
-Name your Country
-Choose music (Your Anthem)
-National food
-Piece of art
You will be given money according to how many other groups you can attract to you country.


Empires Falling
Challenge: Create a presentation that explains why empires fall -- think about who what where when why.
Task: From the Empires you selected last week, select two and determine the list of reasons that the empires fell and who the source of that information is. Create a presentation the explains the reasons.
Target: Explain why empires fall.

Vocabulary 
Activity: Each person at your table, create a picture that explain one of the vocab words.
omnipresent
strike
apparition
totem
philistine
buoyed
ethnocentrism

Introduction about Rome
Introduction: We'll be studying the Roman Empire for the purpose of both learning about the history of Rome and learning how to analyze historical patters. Today, we'll start with learning interesting things about life in the Roman Empire.
Challenge: Use your computer to research bizarre facts about Rome.

Ernie's Ark
At your table, identify likely broad themes in the book. Share. Then identify a section in the book that contains likely symbolism. At your table determine how the symbolism was used to help explain a theme.
Target: Learn how authors use symbolism to advance a theme.

Read Ernie's Ark
Homework: read to page 169.

Homework for Honors
Again, from the reading, write a paragraph explaining how Monica Wood uses symbolism to advance her theme.

Processing
Go to Google Classroom and complete the debrief assignment.

Future: 
Common Assessment for ELA
Interesting fact about Rome/Presentation
-Bizarre Roman tradition or fact
-Bizarre American tradition or fact
-Something we do today that we got from the Romans
Planning for Viking trail -- investigating to answer some questions
Planning for Downtown Norway -- investigating to answer some questions
Food grant
Computer Etiquette
Note taking