Assignments due for the week of October 11th, 2021
PSAT/SAT/ACT Test Prep
We began our study today of all those troublesome grammar rules that are so often misused! We also covered the Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs. These are usually common errors in a high school student’s writing and speaking. Study the page you were given in class for a quiz next week on irregular verb usage as we continue practicing our grammar rules for an upcoming test.
Explorations in British Literature
Great job on your reports today!! You all had lots of details that we needed to know about that particular subject! Great info about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. What a detailed legend! Watch the following song from the musical about Camelot and then watch the parody for a great example of that literary term.
DESCRIPTION OF CAMELOT
PARODY OF CAMELOT
Knights play a role in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales as well. (1300s) Read this brief summary of the story and its plot.
Watch the following video of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.
We will cover many pages in your notebooks together to become familiar with the characters that Chaucer brings to us. Complete page 36 about this author. On page 39, and the extra copy I gave you of that page, write an analysis of the following two tales. (Read them both at the following links.)
Summary & Analysis of The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Summary & Analysis of The Pardoner’s Tale
We will continue discussing these tales and these representative characters. It tells us a great deal about life in the days of Geoffrey Chaucer.
U.S. Government
We went over pages 14-16 (The Constitution–The Bill of Rights and Amendments) and covered those facts in their notebooks. Next week we will have a quiz on Lessons 3 and 4 and also the three branches of government and what makes up each of them. We went over each of the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights and went over amendments 11-27. (Please put these sheets in your notebooks.)
Complete pages 18-20 in your notebooks. (Congress) Here are the answers to the crossword on page 17.
ACROSS DOWN
3. Lobbyists 1. Vice President
4. Table 2. Floor
5. Minority 5. Majority
7. Bill 6. Voice
8. Constituents
9. Implied 11. Report
10. Whip 12. Speaker
13. Expressed
Watch this short video to review the three branches of the U.S. government.
Quick Looks at Great Books
We had a great time today discussing what the students had read so far in A Tale of Two Cities. We listed all the characters they have encountered to this point. We will finish discussing today’s reading next Monday and finish watching the BBC version of what they have read. We will note the literary terms that Dickens has been using in their reading, particularly personification, symbolism, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and foreshadowing and also take the quiz on Chapters 1-9 of Book 2. For next week, continue reading in Book 2 — Chapters 10-19 and answer questions 32-52 in your study guide. These chapters give more insight into C.J. Stryver, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton. Let me know if you are having any problems at all. We will discuss these chapters before our quiz.