Assignments due for the week of October 1oth, 2022
Quick Looks at Great Books
We finished our discussion and study guide questions on Chapters 5 and 6 of Book 1 and took our first quiz on the book. Then we went over much of today’s reading and will finish next week before our second quiz. It does help to watch the BBC version of this book. You can get a good picture of the characters as well as direct conversations from the book.
Watch this brief explanation of a literary device we talked about today.
PSAT/SAT/ACT TEST PREP
We reviewed some basic grammar rules and examples today after taking a quiz on the verbs you had on the sheet I gave the students in class. We will do some practice Writing tests next week and have two grammar quizzes. One will be on recognizing the correct verb form in each sentence. The other will be on some of the rules we went over today. The practice tests will help you know how to process the Writing section of the PSAT. Go over the rules on pages 24-27 to review.
American History
We took our first quiz today on Chapters 1 and 2. We also reviewed for our test next week on Chapters 1-3. We will go over Chapter 4 that you read for today as well as next week’s chapter. Read Chapter 5 for next week and answer the two section review questions. I will go over what you need to know, especially in the Chapter Review at the end of each chapter.
Watch this brief 3 minute video about The Great Awakening, a significant event in American history and the two key figures involved in it.
U.S. Government
The students took their first quiz today, and even though I haven’t looked at them yet, I think they did really well. We will have a quiz on Lessons 3 and 4 next week. (We went over these in class today. They were also given sheets on the Bill of Rights and Amendments 11-27 of the Constitution) The quiz next week will just be matching of the terms on those lessons (not the specific content of amendments) and the fill-in the-blanks like we had on today’s quiz. We will add three numbers to what you did for this week: Number of U.S. Senators–100, Number of U.S. Representatives–435, and Number of Supreme Court Justices–9.
For next week, also do Lessons 6 and 7 in your notebooks.
(pages 22-24 and pages 26-28) I have included the Crossword answers for The Senate Lesson 6 and The House Lesson 7. (pages 21 and 25)
Watch this special video to distinguish the two houses of Congress.
Adventures in American Literature
Great job discussing some of the “Pre-Revolutionary Days” literature! The songs were typically poems that were meant to be sung—-ballads. For next week, we will discuss the many works of Ben Franklin and others. Some pages we will do together in class. For homework, read the following pages and answer the questions on those pages. Ben Franklin is on pages 31-35, Phillis Wheatley (first female black poet) is on pages 37-40, and Frenchman Crevecoeur’s comments and questions are on pages 41 and 42. You should find the works of Ben Franklin quite interesting. You saw a good portrayal of him in the video we watched today.
Watch this video of the accomplishments of Ben Franklin.