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Assignments for 01/31/2022

Assignments due for the week of January 31st, 2022

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Debate

Welcome to second semester! We had a great participatory class with many great responses from students! I think we’re going to have lots of fun as we work through basic methods of logic and logical fallacies as well as learning deductive and inductive reasoning. We will do some sample pages of deductive reasoning next week and learn how to take information and come up with logical conclusions. We will be using a Public Forum format for our debates this year, which we will go over in depth in future classes.

For next week, you have two things to do. First, watch this brief clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Be prepared to discuss how this is faulty logic!!

Next, create two syllogisms of your own and make sure they are both valid and sound. (Refer to pages 8 and 9 in your Debate notebook.) Put them on a sheet of paper with your name and be ready to hand in the assignments. Let me know if you have any questions at all.

Explorations in British Literature

“Robbie” Burns was a poet and Scottish hero whose songs, as well as his poetry, are still sung and read today. Watch the following video of one of his most favorite songs.

In your literature notebook, read the two poems by William Blake (“The Lamb” and “The Tyger”) and try to answer the questions about each one. Then read William Wordsworth’s poem about Tintern Abbey and answer the corresponding questions on pages 111 and 112. “Kubla Khan” is by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on pages 113 and 114. Notice the “induced dream” and how Romantic poets felt about it! 🙂 Read the excerpt from Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein and answer the three questions that follow. Lastly, look at the drawing and then read the short poem “Ozymandias” along with the six questions regarding the poem. (Remember that “theme” refers to the main idea or message of a novel or poem.)

No-Spin Economics

Great participation on some of our introductory comments and terms used in economics today! We will gain Bastiat’s basic principles of economics in his famous book written in the 1800’s. Watch the following summary video and answer the worksheet (front and back) that you were given in class today.

Next, watch the following Crash Course Economics video and learn the basics of economics and what we will be covering. Then complete the questions you were given in class. We will discuss all of this next week.

Quick Looks at Great Books

We will begin our next novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. This is an intriguing story that you will not want to put down! 🙂 This novel was written in a serial format as Dickens did with all of his works. People had to buy the next magazine to read the next chapters of the book. Answer questions 1-18 in your study guide and we will define any unusual terms you find. You will meet the main characters that you will follow throughout the book.

Watch this brief look at the Chateau d’If where Edmond Dantes was imprisoned.

The Count of Monte Cristo reading this week:

  • Abridged version: Chapters 1-12
  • Unabridged version: Chapters 1-15

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