Assignments due for the week of November 21st, 2022
Quick Looks at Great Books
Great start on understanding our new book, Silas Marner. We discussed all that you read and the characters that you have met. Don’t forget to bring your Literary Terms notebooks to class each week. We WILL get to it in the near future. Two literary terms in today’s reading were “Flashback” and “Dramatic Irony” (one of the three kinds of irony you had in your notebooks). This book gives you a perfect example of the reader’s knowing something that the main characters do not. We will take the quiz on the first seven chapters at the beginning of our next class. For next week, continue reading Chapters 8-15 and answer the corresponding questions. Silas experiences a new change in his life since the theft of his money. You will be reading through Part I. We will begin with Part II next time and finish the book. Part II takes place 16 years later! Wow! What changes will take place!!
Watch this brief description of “Flashback”.
PSAT/SAT/ACT TEST PREP
We went over our quizzes from last week to make sure that no one missed the same errors on the test as they had on the quiz. Then the students received new answer sheets and took the ACT English Test. They will receive those back next week with a scaled score for that section. That will give them an idea of how the new evaluation works. Next week, we will prepare for the Reading Test on the ACT. We will do some practice tests and other reviews before taking the test.
American History
We are now over halfway through this semester’s work in American History. Next week we will have a test on Chapters 7-9. (You should have all the circled items you need to know for each chapter on the final Chapter Review of each lesson.) Also, there will be 15 review questions from the first six chapters. Study your previous tests. All the questions will come from those two tests. It will be a review of the most important events we have covered. You should have the correct answers on your tests. All questions will be matching, multiple choice, or True/False. This is a really important section covering the writing of our Constitution through the War of 1812.
Watch the following video about the War of 1812.
Remember—the Battle of New Orleans, which made Andrew Jackson a famous war hero, was actually fought after a peace treaty was signed!! They just hadn’t heard!!
U.S. Government
We talked about last week’s election and especially the results of issues in Michigan. Unbelievable that we still don’t know the status of Representatives in the U.S. House after a whole week!! I told students that they should turn in the current count so far, and by next week, hopefully, there will be a definite majority. In the Senate race, we won’t know the final count until after Dec. 6 since Georgia will have a run-off between the the top two candidates. Neither received 50% of the vote, so, according to Georgia law, they must have a run-off. We’ll see what the final result is after the December vote.
Next week, we will have a quiz on the Electoral College. Study the sheet of notes we went over from the slideshow we did. Also watch the following video to review what you saw in the slideshow and and a few other points as well.
Also, for next week, do Lessons 13 (Immigration) and 14 (Citizenship) in your Government notebooks. Here are the answers for Immigration Lesson 13 and Citizenship Lesson 14 (pages 49 and 53). Once you have the Crossword answers, complete pages 50-52 and pages 54-56. It’s a real process that immigrants must go though to complete the Naturalization process! This is topic currently in the news today!
Adventures in American Literature
We continued our discussion of the second assignment in The Scarlet Letter. The students really did well even though they thought they were confused! 🙂 We took Quiz #2 after we had gone over the chapters and the study guide questions. For next week, continue your reading with Chapters 13-18 and study guide questions 30-42. We also played a game to review some of the authors we will study and their works and also authors that our writers patterned themselves after.