FAST Facts!

Hi, friends!

Go to this link and try out one of these multiplication games.

Or, you might like to try this link for a different game.

If you are ready for a challenge, check out Kakooma. (Choose multiplication, please!)

Have fun!

Your Attitude Determines Your Latitude!

Your goal today: Be able to calculate your Corps' latitude and longitude during our Lewis & Clark expedition!

You should be able to:
-Know the difference between latitude and longitude
-Know how to use them to write a specific location on a map
-Know the order in which to write them

Watch this video to learn all about them!

When you're done, take the quiz and poke around the other activities in the Latitude and Longitude section to see what else you can learn.

Once everyone is done, we'll talk more.

Bonus Challenge: Can you come up with your own memory trick to remember the difference between latitude and longitude?  If so, leave a comment with your trick!

Bill of Rights

Today's goal: Learn about the Bill of Rights.
What are they? What rights do they guarantee? What might happen without them?

First, watch this video. You may take notes, if you like. (Headphones, please.)

Then, complete page P1 "Handout 1":
Write each amendment listed in your own words, and give an example of a situation that might happen if we did not have this right.

If you have trouble putting the amendments into your own words, see pages 334 and 335 of your Social Studies textbook for a student-friendly version of the Bill of Rights.

Last, get together with one or two partners, and complete page P2 "Handout 2".
Read ALL 8 cases. Then choose 3 of them. For each of the 3 your team chooses:
-explain what you think the Supreme Court should have decided
-give the number of the Amendment that applies to this case (1, 4, 5, or 6)
-give an exact quote from the Amendment you chose that proves your opinion

Done? You may:
-talk with your group about the other 5 cases and what the decisions should be
-have a partner quiz you on the Bill of Rights: Can you give the number of each right? Can you name the right(s) for each number? Can you name the numbers and rights from memory?
-make up an imaginary case related to another Amendment (2, 4, 7, 8, 9, or 10)

BrainPop: Articles of Confederation

Let's learn all about our nation's first attempt at writing a Constitution! (Here's a hint: It didn't work out so well.)

Watch the BrainPop video at this link to find out more about the Articles of Confederation:

What were they?
What were their strengths?
Weaknesses?
Why were the set up the way they were?
What happened as a result?

Spiderman Poem

Here's the text of one of our favorite poems.

“Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too"

by James Hall

All my pwoblems
who knows, maybe evwybody's pwoblems
is due to da fact, due to da awful twuth
dat I am SPIDERMAN.
I know. I know. All da dumb jokes:
No flies on you, ha ha,
and da ones about what do I do wit all
doze extwa legs in bed. Well, dat's funny yeah.
But you twy being
SPIDERMAN for a month or two. Go ahead.

You get doze cwazy calls fwom da
Gubbener askin you to twap some booglar who's
only twying to wip off color T.V. sets.
Now, what do I cawre about T.V. sets?
But I pull on da suit, da stinkin suit,
wit da sucker cups on da fingers,
and get my wopes and wittle bundle of
equipment and den I go flying like cwazy
acwoss da town fwom woof top to woof top.

Till der he is. Some poor dumb color T.V. slob
and I fall on him and we westle a widdle 
until I get him all woped. So big deal.

You tink when you SPIDERMAN
der's sometin big going to happen to you.
Well, I tell you what. It don't happen dat way.
Nuttin happens. Gubbener calls, I go.
Bwing him to powice, Gubbener calls again,
like dat over and over.

I tink I twy sometin diffunt. I tink I twy
sometin excitin like wacing cawrs. Sometin to make
my heart beat at a difwent wate.
But den you just can't quit being sometin like
SPIDERMAN.
You SPIDERMAN for life. Fowever. I can't even
buin my suit. It won't buin. It's fwame wesistent.
So maybe dat's youwr pwoblem too, who knows.
Maybe dat's da whole pwoblem wif evwytin.
Nobody can buin der suits, dey all fwame wesistent.
Who knows?

And here's a link to the author's post about this poem on his blog, if you'd like to read more about it.

American Revolution Game!

Try this:

 http://www.mission-us.org

I think you will like it! Play Mission 1: For Crown or Colony. Happy gaming!

Book Club Reflection Questions

You did it! You finished your Book Club Book!

Please write a new post on your blog reflecting on the experience of being in a Book Club.
Copy and paste the questions below, if that helps you be sure to answer each one in your blog post.

What was the best part of participating in your Book Club?

What was the worst part of participating in your Book Club?

Would you want to do a Book Club again? Why or why not?

If we do another round of Book Clubs, what would you like to do differently?