Assignments

Assignments for March 23rd, 2026

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Explorations in British Literature

We watched more of our BBC DVD today and saw the Bumbles 3 months into their marriage. Not a pretty sight at all!! Who is Fagin newest employee? We’ll watch more next week or when we come back from Spring Break. We’ll also watch as Simon Callow portrays Dickens as he is on the road with excerpts from his books. We’ll watch Nancy’s murder and what follows. Hopefully, you’ll see a side of Dickens you haven’t yet seen!

Next week, we’ll play a game of Jeopardy to review Oliver Twist along with a Final Jeopardy question. Review the book and listen to all the questions. It will be a great review of characters and events. Also, read and complete pages 148-150 (Pardon My Pun) In your British Literature notebook on Lewis Carroll and a portion of “Jabberwocky,” a poem. We’ll begin right after Spring Break with the nonsense writing of the 1800s, so be sure to bring your British Literature notebook to class then.

Watch this brief reading of “Jabberwocky.”

American History

We listened to and talked about the lives of our next set of Presidents. Next week, we will assign the next eight for extra credit this semester. They will be due on April 20. We will also start reviewing for our States and Capitals test when we return from Spring Break.

Next week, we will have a game review and our final test on Chapters 21-24. We reviewed each of the Chapter Reviews today.

Watch this brief video about the Great Depression.

No-Spin Economics

We took our Coins and Currency Quiz today. There were two matching sections. and the rest was True/False. Then we reviewed for next week’s quiz on Crash Course Economics #3 and #5. We reviewed also for the Crash Course Economics Test on April 13 on Crash Courses 1-6. Next week, we will have our quiz on CC #3 and #5.

Also, read Chapters 7-9 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? I will give you handouts next week.

Quick Looks at Great Books

We made up quizzes and took all that we have. Then we reviewed all of the book with a competitive game. We will have one more review Jeopardy game next week before we take the final test. We will finish all of the questions in your study guide. When we return from Spring Break on April 6, we will begin our next book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Be sure to secure a copy by April 6. Also, complete more terms in your notebook—Denotation and Connotation (pages 1-3), Hyperbole (pages 4-5), Idiom (pages 6-7), Imagery (pages 8-9), Oxymoron and Paradox (pages 13-15), and Assonance and Consonance (pages 25-27). Bring your notebook of Literary Terms to class on April 6.

Debate

Winner of the debate—Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of JFK. We’ll go over comments and suggestions next week. We will also divide into two new teams and have time to start working on our next debate. We will invite all of the parents to the next three debates. No problem if they can’t make it. We’ll play a game before we start work on our next debate.

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