Assignments due for the week of December 12th, 2022

Merry Christmas and Tree

Quick Looks at Great Books

We finished reviewing the entire book (Silas Marner) before our final test today. We did two rounds of a Jeopardy review game to go over characters and events. The students did a great job in answering questions and remembering details! We finished with he final test on this book. For next week, continue working in your Literary Terms book with the following pages:

Genre (pages 66-68)
Mood and Tone (pages 74-76)
Moral and Theme (pages 77-78)
Plot (pages 81-82)
Rhetorical Question (pages 89-91).

I will check these pages to see that you have kept up with the assignments in this notebook when we get back from Christmas break. We will then work on going through what you have done.

Next week, we will celebrate a Victorian Christmas as Charles Dickens and George Eliot would. Many do not know how many of our current traditions really came from Queen Victoria and her family, along with the contributions of Charles Dickens. We will celebrate in some of the ways they traditionally would.

Watch this 60 second recap of one of Dickens’s most beloved stories.

PSAT/SAT/ACT TEST PREP

We prepared for the final section of the ACT test today—the Science Test. We went over the 3 types of passages the students would encounter and did practice sheets for each of them. They did an amazing job of reading the graphs, charts, and experiments!! They do not have to be proficient in the many fields of science. They just have to interpret the information given to them in each passage. Next week, we will review and take the final test so that they can see their overall score for the ACT.

American History

We took our quiz on the videos today and then discussed Chapters 11 and 12. Students were given which of the terms they need to know in the Chapter Review at the end of these two chapters. Next week, we will have a quiz on the key points in Chapters 10-12 as well as the following four videos.

Andrew Jackson

Martin VanBuren

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

Only key facts from Lessons 10-12 will be on the quiz: Era of Good Feelings, Missouri Compromise, Trail of Tears, and Sojourner Truth for examples. Also, read Chapters 13 and 14, which we will go over in class. No big test until after the Civil War!

U.S. Government

Today we reviewed the lessons of Voting, The Electoral College, Political Parties (Democratic and Republican), President, and Vice President with a competitive game. Then we took the test on these pages in your notebooks. We then made sure that everyone had the correct answers to the Lessons on Immigration and Citizenship. For next week, complete Lessons 16 and 17 on The Law and Trial. These lessons follow the unit on the Supreme Court that we covered last week. The test will cover the following lessons: Supreme Court, The Law, Trial, Immigration, and Citizenship. It will be True/False, Short Answer, Matching, and Multiple choice. (The Short Answer will always be things we have covered the entire semester.) I have included the answers for Lesson 16 The Law and Lesson 17 Trial on pages 61 and 65. We will also do another game to review all of the material for the test. There will be two bonus questions that will come from the videos on Air Force One and The Beast you had in last week’s assignment. Let me know if you have any questions.

Adventures in American Literature

We played a Jeopardy game to review key characters and events in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and then took the final test. The students have done a great job with this difficult book and have good grades to prove it!

For next week, read Washington Irving’s “Early Life in Manhattan” on pages 56-61 and answer the questions on each page. Irving wrote this story under the pseudonym of Diedrich Knickerbocker. We will then cover many facts you may not know about Irving and how he helped develop our American Christmas celebrations.

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Assignments for 12/12/2022