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Assignments for 02/20/2023

Assignments due for the week of February 20th, 2023

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Quick Looks at Great Books

We discussed most of your reading for today and also did two of the diagram pages at the end of your study guides. For next week, read the following chapters in your book:

  • Chapters 42-53 (Abridged)
  • Chapters 53-81 (Unabridged)

Answer the study guide questions 78-82 to make sure you covered all the details that happened. The plot thickens, and many new decisions are made!

Practical Public Speaking

We continued with our interviews of the students today. We will finish the last one next week and cover the next sections in your notebook. The following week, we will begin our first short speech. I will go over all the details next week and tell you exactly what to do and what type of speech it will be.

American History

The grades on the last test were much better, even though the test covered 8 chapters!! There were lots of important facts to learn as well as all the details that led up to the Civil War. Over half the class made A’s and B’s! For next week, read Chapter 20—“America’s Expanding Influence”. We will also have our test on the states and capitals. We will do a game review before we take the test. You can review all of the states by going to page 539 in the back of your text for a complete list.

Watch the following videos on the next Presidents in our current chapters.

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

No-Spin Economics

We went over your notes today on Chapters 1 and 2 in Penny Candy and the worksheet on Crash Course Economics #3. For next week, read Chapters 3 and 4 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and watch Crash Course Economics video #4. There will be a lot of overlap between the two, especially in the area of Supply and Demand. Hopefully, they will reinforce each other! Fill out the sheets you were given for each of the two chapters in Penny Candy and also the worksheet on Crash Course video #4. We will go over all that you read and watched, and then will have a quiz on Chapters 3 and 4 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

Watch Crash Course Economics #4.

Adventures in American Literature

We went over all the satirical writings of Mark Twain that you read for today—“The Story of the Bad Little Boy”, the excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, “A Burlesque Biography”, and the “Diaries of Adam and Eve.” We also watched a brief biographical sketch of Mark Twain and the writing of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For next week, read Chapters 1-10 in Huckleberry Finn and answer questions 1-26 in your new study guide. We will have a quiz after answering any questions you may have. Note Twain’s great example of the use of “local color.”

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