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Assignments for 01/13/2020

Assignments due for the week of January 13th, 2020

PSAT/SAT/ACT Test Prep

Great review today of the subject matter on the ACT test and the instruction sheet for test day. You will receive an email in the next two weeks with specific information about signing up for the tests that apply to you. For future reference, here is a video to help you improve your score on the SAT essay section.

Explorations in British Literature

Complete the excerpts and questions from John Milton’s Paradise Lost on pages 80-85 in your notebook. Read his short poem on his blindness and answer the questions on page 86. Read Samuel Pepys’s diary of the events of the “great fire of London” along with the questions on pages 88 and 89. Read the short satirical poems on pages 91 and 92, completing the short questions on each one. Go over the satire of the Elizabethan Theater on page 93. (Check the Devices of Satire on page 90 to answer question # 3.)

Watch the following brief video to better understand how satire works.

US Government

Great job today on the government trivia game we played on the first day of class. You did know lots more information than you did at the beginning of the semester! It was also a great review for our final exam next week. Make sure you review all your past tests and quizzes as well as the matching page on each lesson in your government workbook. I gave you the terms you need to know on Lessons 18-24 since we did not have quizzes on those lessons. We will do another game review before our final exam.

Watch this video which defines the branches of the military and gives their individual songs.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Complete the sketch on page 6 in your study guide for Cyrano de Bergerac to familiarize yourself with the theater scene you will be reading in the play. Read Acts I—III and be ready to discuss them in class next week.

Watch the following scene from Act I to visualize the time period and dress of the day.

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