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Assignments for 01/24/2022

Assignments due for the week of January 24th, 2022

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Debate

We will begin our new semester of Debate next week. We have several new students joining us, and we hope to see all of our present class as well. This is a difficult class to cover at home and is crucial to students’ learning how to defend their beliefs and persuade their listeners of their point of view. They will learn to work together as a team and share ideas on presentations. It is a great opportunity to learn from others! It builds sound principles of logic as we will cover this subject in the first weeks, along with many other games and learning opportunities. All you need to bring to class is a three-ring binder to hold the workbook I will give you. This will be a half-credit to finish your transcript for the year. 🙂

Explorations in British Literature

We took our quiz on the Elizabethan Age today and went over satire in the 1600’s and all the work they had done in their notebooks. We will continue going over the 1665 plague in England and the common children’s rhyme, “Ring Around the Rosey”, and how it was related to their plague. I gave the students their second semester pages for their notebooks. Read page 102 and note the characteristics of Neoclassicism and Romanticism. On page 103. categorize each item in Literature, Government, People, and Places & Things into either a Neoclassical element or a Romantic element. (Hint: There will be 16 under each heading.) On page 107, read the poem by Robert Burns (A Red, Red Rose) and answer the four questions. “Robbie Burns” was a Scottish poet and their “national hero”.

Watch this brief video about the life of Robert Burns.

No-Spin Economics

It’s exciting to begin a new semester and a new area of study. For Economics class, bring a three-ring binder to hold the pages I give you in class throughout the semester. Also, make sure you have access to the book, Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard Maybury. You can purchase the book online or borrow it from a fellow homeschool family. Students will need this by the third week of class. This course is directly related to our first semester study, and the students will see the political importance of understanding economics and how it is applied in current events today!

Quick Looks at Great Books

Since you have completed your reading of Cyrano de Bergerac, we will do a game review of the book before we have our final test next week. Take time to complete the following pages in your Literary Terms notebook: Dialogue (pages 60-61), Genre (pages 66-68), Mood and Tone (pages 74-76), Moral and Theme (pages 77-78), and Plot (pages 81-82) I will check these pages during our test on Cyrano de Bergerac.

Watch this final scene from Act V of your reading.

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