1.  Take your STAR test by typing STAR in the keyword/search box on lps.org  DO YOUR BEST!

2.  Play this game OR read the Dragon’s Flame by clicking on the link

3.  Check your grades

“Earthquake Devastates Nepal, Killing More than 1,200” by Ellen Barry, April 25, 2015

“The earthquake set off avalanches on Mount Everest, where several hundred trekkers were attempting an ascent, according to climbers there. Alex Gavan, a hiker at base camp, called it a “huge disaster” on Twitter and described “running for life from my tent.” Nima Namgyal Sherpa, a tour guide at base camp, said in a Facebook post that many camps had been destroyed.

Ten people died on Mount Everest after the earthquake, Nepalese officials said.”

“At Least 10 Everest Climbers Killed as Nepal Quake Sets Off Avalanche” by Gardiner Harris, April 25, 2015.

Last year’s avalanche and the outrage among the Sherpas over their pay and safety conditions forced the cancellation of the climbing season, a key part of Nepal’s tourism industry. Whether this year’s avalanche would result in a similar shutdown was unclear Saturday.

Tourism accounts for much of Nepal’s economy, with Everest one of the country’s biggest draws. And though money generated by people who climb the celebrated peak constitutes only a relatively small part of the country’s overall economy, it represents one of the few ways men can earn a living in Nepal.

Foreign climbers pay professional tour companies and Western guides as much as $100,000 to climb, with assistance, the 29,000-foot (8,848 meters) peak. Sherpas are hired at about $125 per climb per legal load (set at 20 pounds) to ease paying climbers’ path up the mountain.

The tour agencies pay several thousand dollars per climber to the Nepalese government for a climbing license, and those fees have brought the government $3 million to $4 million annually in recent years. There is also the money to the local economy for hotel rooms, dining and cellphone rentals, as well as the hiring of local help to carry trekkers’ supplies up the mountain to camp.

More information from CNN (2:10)

Before and After photos

Avanlanche footage

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Take the reading benchmark test.  Login with your first and last name + 537 and enter your normal password  (marenbanwell537).  Click here to begin.  Save your progress – we’ll finish Thursday.

Thursday after you do awesome on your test, study for your vocabulary test by playing this game.  Show me when you beat it.

Then try nonfiction features game and nonfiction structures game.

1.  Finish your narrative.

2.   Highlight the ENTIRE narrative and choose            and 1.0 or back to single spacing (saves paper)

3.  KEEP IT ALL HIGHLIGHTED

Hit  the apple key and C at the same time to COPY

Open Microsoft Word (big blue W in dock)

Paste your story by hitting the apple key and V at the same time

Go up to TOOLS  and choose SPELLING and GRAMMAR to edit your narrative

Have someone else read it – do they have a lead, theme, dialogue, good description?  If not, remind them to add it.

4.  Go to FILE and choose PRINT.  TURN IN YOUR NARRATIVE!

5.  Click here to review for you vocabulary quiz – unit 5

6. Click below to watch videos/play games about figurative language.

Figurative language in movies video

Figurative language Fling the teacher game

Click here to take your vocabulary quiz.  Login with your first and last name + 537 and your normal password (marenbanwell537)

When finished, log out and raise your hand to revise your word choice in your narrative.

Click here to take your vocabulary test.  Login is your first and last name + 537 (marenbanwell537) and your normal password.

Add to your Outsiders notes when you are finished.

1.  Take your STAR test – lps.org, star, normal id and password

2.  Click here to continue writing.  Log into QUIA using your first and last name +537 (marenbanwell537) and your normal password.   SUBMIT when finished.

Remember, the objective is to DESCRIBE using sights, sounds, thoughts, feelings, smells and tastes.

3.  Play Rags to Riches game for vocabulary test tomorrow

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Normal password

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