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Assignments for 02/21/2022

Assignments due for the week of February 21st, 2022

Valentine's Day heart candy

 

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Debate

Please you use this week to make up any work that you are missing. You have an assignment due in two weeks. You are to do a promotional ad to promote the candidacy of Sylvia Snidely for the Senate. You were given a group that you will be cooperating with. Look over and have some ideas about the setting and lines. The presentation should be about 3-4 minutes. (1 minute per person in the sketch) Each person should participate equally. You will be given a specific logical fallacy that you must use. You may use other fallacies if you choose as long as you use the one assigned to you. Look over the questions on the back of the assignment sheet. You will be given time in class next week to work with your team to prepare your presentation. We will cover some other areas and select topics for our one-on-one debates coming up.

Watch the following video to review the basic logical fallacies:

Explorations in British Literature

We took our two quizzes on Romanticism and matching the works and authors of this period. Then we began our discussion of the author and background of our next book. We took a quiz on the first seven pages of your study guides and went through the Victorian Age, along with the Industrial Revolution. The writing of the time reflected what was going on in history as well.

For next week, begin Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens by reading Chapters 1-14 and answering the few questions in your study guides for those chapters.

Watch these two brief videos to understand more about the material portrayed in Oliver Twist.

First video:

The Victorians | Life in a Victorian Workhouse (1)

Second video:

No-Spin Economics

We took our first test on the video on The Law, Chapters 1 and 2 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, and Crash Course Economics video #1. We then played a game which illustrated the benefits of free trade as we learned in Crash Course #2. Then we covered the handouts for Chapters 3 and 4 in your book. Next week, we will have a quiz on Chapters 3 and 4 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Please study your handout sheets and reread the chapters if necessary to get the whole picture. We now can answer the question of why there is no longer penny candy! 🙂 Also, please make sure you know the accurate definition of inflation and the result of this practice.

For next week, watch the following video (Crash Course Economics #4) and answer the questions on the worksheet you were given in class.

Watch this video to reinforce the term TANSTAAFL.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Continue your reading in The Count of Monte Cristo with the following chapters and answer your study guide questions 77-82. Note the new characters introduced in each new set of chapters. What a vast array of personalities!!

  • Abridged version: Chapters 42-53
  • Unabridged version: Chapters 63-81

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