Assignments due for the week of May 13th, 2019
Practical Public Speaking
We will finish any “make-up” speeches due to absences and begin our final speech of the year next week. If you have not given me the topic for your Persuasive speech, don’t forget to email me by Friday. Use this speech to perfect all of the pointers we have discussed throughout the semester. Remember that this is an extemporaneous speech, not a manuscript! Tell it to us with references to your notes, but do NOT read it to us. Concentrate on eye contact and vocal and facial expression.
Adventures in American Literature
Review for the final test on The Giver by completing the Chronolog on page 13 of your study guide. Read the two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay on pages 160 and 161 and answer the questions that follow.
Read “The Mending Wall” by Robert Frost and answer the two questions on p 148.
Read or listen to “The Road Not Taken” by Frost and be prepared to discuss its meaning.
Read the short story The Last Leaf by O. Henry or listen to it note the typical situational irony.
No-Spin Economics
We will have a test on Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Chapters 1-13. We will do a review game in class before the test. Use your chapter summary sheets to review and look over the past tests and quizzes.
Watch our last video Crash Course Economics #12 and complete the study guide you were given.
Quick Looks at Great Books
Review for our test on To Kill a Mockingbird by completing the Chronolog on page 16 in your study guide. Be prepared for a quiz on the background material for this book. The quiz will come from pages 18-26 in your guide.
Watch the following final scenes from the novel: