Assignments due for the week of March 6th, 2023

Quick Looks at Great Books

We’re now ready to finish this novel with this last section. Most of you are doing a great job with the reading and understanding the characters. We will play three different review games over the next two weeks to prepare for our final test on March 13. The stunning conclusion may be full of surprises with lots of lessons for us to process. For this week, read the following chapters:

Chapters 64-71 (Abridged version)
Chapters 104-117 (Unabridged version)

Complete questions 94-105 in your study guide to finish the events of the novel.

Practical Public Speaking

We have most of the Memorization speeches finished, but we will complete them next week in class. Then we will begin our Manuscript speeches. You signed up for a speech today. Please let me know if you want to change and choose your own. You are to Google a copy of the speech and condense it to 4-5 minutes. PRACTICE reading it aloud so that you can read it with expression and maintain eye contact with your audience. Avoid the common problems with a manuscript speech—monotone reading and no eye contact with your audience! Let me know if you have any questions at all or if you want to change your manuscript speech.

American History

We went over Chapter 21 in your text and covered the things you need to know from the Chapter Review. Next week, we will finish our game review before we take the test on Chapters 18-20. Also for next week, read Chapter 22 as we continue the story of our country with “The Progressive Era”. We will next move on to World War I in our next chapter, Don’t forget—if you have a report on Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, or Chester Arthur, be prepared to present it to the class next week.

No-Spin Economics

We spent time covering the worksheet on Economics Crash Course video #5 on Macroeconomics and also reviewed the worksheet we already went over on video #3. We also covered Chapters 5 and 6 in Penny Candy. Next week, we will have a quiz on these two videos—#3 and #5. (Study the worksheets to review. It will be 25 True/False questions.) Then we will begin our study of money, Each group will be given specific coins to study as well as the dollar bill. The following week, we will study our bills—$2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. I know you will have fun with this activity—learning more about the money we use and all that the government thinks about as it prints these bills.

Adventures in American Literature

We took questions on anything the students didn’t understand from today’s reading before we took the quiz. We discussed your study guide questions through today’s reading. Huck is maturing before your eyes and coming to many of the conclusions that Mark Twain himself held. For next week, read Chapters 19-29 and answer questions 48-68 in your study guide. There will be lot of trials and a surprise ending in Chapter 29!

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Assignments for 03/06/2023