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Assignments for 05/08/2023

Assignments due for the week of May 8th, 2023

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Quick Looks at Great Books

We took the first quiz on The Old Man and the Sea and went over the first half of the study guide questions! I showed some pictures to illustrate the action thus far. We will take the second quiz and finish the study guide questions next week. Complete the Chronolog (page 13) to review the book for our final test. It’s amazing to note all the religious imagery in this book! Watch the following brief video on the life of Hemingway.

Practical Public Speaking

More Informative speeches today to entertain and inform us! We will finish any Informative speeches left and begin our Demonstration speeches next week. They look very interesting! Be sure to email me with your subject for the Demonstration speech and don’t forget to bring an outline to hand in to me.

American History

Great job on the reports on our Presidents! We will conclude with our last reports next week.

  • John Kennedy—Niklas
  • Richard Nixon—Renee
  • Gerald Ford—Jordan
  • Jimmy Carter—Paige
  • Ronald Reagan—Eliana
  • George H.W. Bush—Sydney
  • Bill Clinton—Chloe
  • George W. Bush—Samuel
  • Barack Obama—Mallory
  • Donald Trump—Paige
  • Joe Biden—Benny

I will also give you everything you need to know for our test on the U.S. Presidents McKinley through Biden. The test will be in two weeks on May 15. Study pages 540 and 541 in your text and be able to identify our 50 states on a map. Lastly for next week, read Chapters 29 and 30 in your text—The Eve of the New Millennium and America in the New Millennium.

Here are some new one-minute videos on Presidents we are studying.

Nixon

Ford

Carter

Reagan

H.W. Bush

No-Spin Economics

Today we reviewed Chapter 13 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? We covered Maybury’s six summary points and then went through the handout on Chapter 13. We then went over in detail the worksheet for Crash Course Video #12 on the 2008 Financial Crisis. I also gave you the “numbers” on that sheet that you would need to know for our final exam. We completed in class an additional worksheet for Crash Course #12 to reinforce the points. Next week, we will take a quiz on Crash Course Video #12 and the Penny Candy review chapter 13. We will also begin to review for the test on May 15 on the entire Penny Candy book. (Chapters 1-13)

Adventures in American Literature

We took our first quiz on The Giver today and discussed all the study guide questions through Chapter 11. Complete the book for next week. We will take our second quiz and finish covering our study guide for the last half of the book. Lowry leaves us with an ambiguous ending, and I’m excited to see how your processed it!

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