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Assignments for 04/24/2023

Assignments due for the week of April 24th, 2023

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Quick Looks at Great Books

We took our final quiz on To Kill a Mockingbird and then continued with all the study questions in the study guide. We will have our final test on the book next week, after a Jeopardy game review. 🙂 Also, complete page 16 in your study guide—the Chronolog. This is a review of all the events in the book in chronological order. Also, check your Literary Terms notebook to make sure you have completed all the terms with the exception of Lessons 11 and 14-18. (pages 28-30 and pages 37-48) Finish any terms that you have not yet filled in. We will review them before our final exam, which is on the last day of class.

Watch the following videos from the ending of the book.

Practical Public Speaking

We finished all our make-up work today and collected the outlines for your Informative Speeches. We covered the Strategy page you did in your workbook and worked on Tongue Twisters and Articulation drills to improve ourselves for these last three speeches. Be ready to present your Informative Speech next week as we will draw names randomly after taking any volunteers.

American History

We took our test today on Chapters 21-24 in your text. We reviewed for a short quiz on Chapter 25 on the basic people, countries, dates, and issues involved. We will have that along with another quiz on the States and Capitals. This probably was the highest grade all year for most of you, so just review by looking over page 539 in your text. It will be the same format as last time. Also, read Chapter 26 in your text, and we will discuss the domestic policies of the Cold War. (1945-1981)

Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

No-Spin Economics

We started off with the taking of our quiz over Chapters 7-9 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and Crash Course Economics #7. Then we went over the summary study sheets of Penny Candy 10-12 and Crash Course Economics #10 on Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve. We also went over the information sheet you were given on the Federal Reserve. For next week, complete the worksheet you were given on Crash Course Economics #11. Next week, we will have a quiz on Crash Courses #10 and #11. (AFTER we go over Crash Course #11.) Watch the following brief video to visualize again how much a trillion really is!

Adventures in American Literature

We took our quiz today on the short story by Jack London, “To Build a Fire”. We discussed the story and also the questions on page 136 in your “textbook”. We then did our reports on the O. Henry stories where we could identify the situational irony he is so famous for. We then discussed Willa Cather’s story “The Sculptor’s Funeral” and the pages in your notebooks. We then went over two of Robert Frost’s famous poems, “Mending Wall” and “The Road Not Taken”. For next week, read the excerpt from Sinclair Lewis’s novel Babbitt on pages 149 and 150 and answer the three questions on page 151. Read the short selection by Erma Bombeck on “Convenient Hearing” on pages 152 and 153 and compare the two with the questions on page 154. Lastly, read Ernest Hemingway’s story “In Another Country” and answer the questions on page 156. We will discuss Hemingway’s philosophy and his heroes specifically.

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