Assignments due for the week of October 12th, 2020
PSAT/SAT/ACT Test Prep
Great review today of some “tricky” grammar rules! Review the rules on pages 24-27 for a grammar quiz next week in preparation for the practice PSAT Evidence-Based Writing and Language test the following week.
Quick Looks at Great Books
For next week, read Chapters 10-19 in Book 2 of A Tale of Two Cities and answer questions 32-52 in your study guide. Watch for some of the literary terms we keep finding as we discuss the book, and continue to note Jerry Cruncher’s malapropisms!
Watch this brief video explaining personification. (Remember, that Dickens will personify the guillotine!)
U.S. Government
Fantastic job on your Debate Analysis sheets and especially on your discussion of last week’s Presidential debate — great observations!! You made some terrific points! I’m sure many of your parents were involved too, which is super. Part of your assignment this week is to fill out the same sheet (given to you in class) for the Vice Presidential debate this Wednesday, October 7 at 9 P.M. in Salt Lake City, Utah. You will have time to watch a recorded version on Youtube or other locations if you can’t watch it live. Since tons of “new” news comes out every day, keep up-to-date on that as well as the evaluation of this week’s debate.
Because we have so much to cover regarding the Constitutional Convention and the Bill of Rights, we are only going to do one section in your notebook this week. (We will make up for lost time later!) You were given the answers for the crossword on page 17 in class today. Using those terms, complete pages 18-20. This week we will learn more about the processes of Congress as we go over the associated terms.
Lastly, students should ask parents the question we talked about in class today (Email me if you have forgotten what it was!)
Take a few minutes to watch this brief video about the Constitutional Convention.
Adventures in American Literature
Interesting information today about the founding fathers and their writings even though we did have difficulties with the DVD! 🙂 Read about the lifestyle and writings of Benjamin Franklin on pages 31-35. Follow the early writings of our first young female African American poet on pages 37-40, and read the comments made by Frenchman St. John de Crevecoeur and answer the corresponding questions on pages 41 and 42. We will have our first quiz next week on the “authors” and statesmen we have covered so far. It will be a short answer quiz over the individuals we have studied, beginning with John Smith of Jamestown. We will review by doing the acrostic on pages 44 and 45 together. We will finish these early days of American history and literature and start reading the variety of American “tall tales” that are such an important part of our literary history.
Remember these two literary terms we have talked about thus far: similes and metaphors (used extensively in the famous sermon by Jonathan Edwards).