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Assignments for 02/14/2022

Assignments due for the week of February 14th, 2022

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Debate

We collected the deductive reasoning sheet you did for homework and then went over the questions on Susan B. Anthony’s speech. We then checked listening skills by answering the questions on page 18 in your notebook after you listened to the speech on the death penalty. We then went over the logical fallacies on page 24 and explained each one. You were also given sheets of logical fallacies where you were given examples of these and other fallacies.

For next week, create a bumper sticker illustrating one of the logical fallacies. You may use color or drawings when possible, or create it on your computer. Please identify the logical fallacy that you are illustrating. (Use an 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of paper to turn in.)

Also, continue any research for your mini “Candy” debates next week. You will have 15 minutes to meet with your teams and make final adjustments and additions. Then each team will make a 4 minute persuasive presentation, followed by a Crossfire to the speaker or his/her teammates. Please come prepared to share your research and ideas with the team.

Explorations in British Literature

We reviewed all of the Romantic poets and writers in preparation for our two quizzes next week. One will be a matching quiz with the writers and their works. We added Lord Byron to the group with his famous verses, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, which told of his travels in Europe and Asia. We discussed Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and reviewed the differences between Romanticism and Neoclassicism. Jane Austen and Mary Shelley were the two novelists we covered in this period.

We will finish “The Lady of Shalott” next week with exactly what happened to the lady who dared to look directly toward Camelot. Tennyson wrote during the Victorian Age which is what we will be starting as we begin our study of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. In addition to the two short quizzes on Romanticism, read pages 1-7 in the study guide you were given and be prepared for a quiz on the life of Dickens and the background and reasons for the writing of Oliver Twist. We will actually begin the book itself next week as we cover other aspects of the Victorian Age in British literature.

Watch this brief video telling why we should read the novels of Charles Dickens. 🙂

No-Spin Economics

We went over your past homework–Chapters 1 and 2 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and Crash Course Economics #2 on Specialization and Trade. Please keep these worksheets to study for future quizzes and tests. Next week, we will have our first test on The Law, Chapters 1 and 2 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy, and Crash Course #1. Review your notes to prepare.

Also for next week, read Chapters 3 and 4 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and watch the Crash Course Economics video #3. Please complete the worksheets you were given for each of these.

Here is this week’s video, Crash Course Economics #3.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Continue your reading in The Count of Monte Cristo with the following chapters and answer your study guide questions 52-76. The plot continues to thicken!

  • Abridged version: Chapters 28-41
  • Unabridged version: Chapters 36-62

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