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Assignments for 02/17/2025

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Assignments for February 17th, 2025

Quick Looks at Great Books

Today, we did a game review and then took the final test on Cyrano de Bergerac. This test will still go on first semester, and second semester begins with The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Since this is a full year course, students will receive a transcript at the end of the year. If you need to know how your student is doing, just email me, and I will average his/her grade for first semester. For next week, begin The Count of Monte Cristo by reading the following chapters:

  • Chapters 1-12 (abridged version)
  • Chapters 1-15 (unabridged version)

The students received study guides today for this book. Answer questions 1-18 for this reading.

Watch this short biography of Dumas.

American History

Today, we reviewed our Crossword Puzzles on Jefferson and Lincoln. Then we had our Presidential reports on Millard Fillmore—Abraham Lincoln. Watch the following one-minute summaries of the lives of some of our Presidents.

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

We then started going through the rest of our current chapters. For next week, read Chapter 20. We will have a test the following week on Chapters 18-20.

Listen to these fun facts about the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our independence.

No-Spin Economics

Today, we finished going over the worksheet on Crash Course Economics #2—Specialization and Trade. We then played a game to show how EVERYONE benefits from free trade. The more partners you can trade with, the more success you will have in getting what you want. Then we went over the worksheet for Chapters 1 and 2 in our Penny Candy book. Next week, we will have our first test on the notes (from the video) on Bastiat’s The Law, Crash Course Economics #1—Introduction to Economics, and Chapters 1 and 2 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? You don’t need to watch the videos or read the chapters again. Just study the sheets you were given to prepare for the test.

Also, for next week, watch Crash Course Economics #3 on Economic Systems and Macroeconomics.

Please download and print worksheet for this Crash Course Economics Lesson #3.

Practical Public Speaking

We finished one set of interviews and are almost done with the second set. With that done, everyone will have had a chance to be the interviewer and the interviewee. It is a great chance to get to know our classmates better.

If you did not hand in your ads today, be sure to bring them next week. Put them on a sheet of paper with your name on it. List the ads, where you got them, and what strategy they illustrate. Tell me a little bit about the ad as well.

Next week, we will finish our interviews and cover the lesson on Listening, an important attribute we all need. We will then begin some short assignments that are very practical and very likely to occur in your life.

Adventures in American Literature

We covered today’s homework: Emily Dickenson and her work, Walt Whitman and his work before, during, and after the Civil War, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. (excerpt and questions) For next week, read the following short stories (works of satire) and the excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer on pages 114 to 125. Next week’s assignment will be to start our next novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Make sure you have a copy of the book by next week.

Watch this short video for 5 facts you probably didn’t know about Mark Twain.

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