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Assignments for 03/14/2022

Assignments due for the week of March 14th, 2022

Field of clovers from above

Debate

We will continue with our one-on-one debates next week. Great participation and questions today! I loved how you engaged in all the details of each debate! Make sure you are prepared with your facts and research for next week’s debates. (Relax if you are already finished!) We will also begin our study of the format of the public forum debate and a new topic for research.

Explorations in British Literature

Finish our novel, Oliver Twist, this week by completing chapters 41-53. Answer the corresponding questions in these chapters to make sure you understand what has happened or has been explained. Hopefully, all your questions will be answered, and all problems resolved! You will understand the identity of Monks and why he has such evil intentions for his younger brother. You will also find out who Oliver really is, see the fate of the Bumbles, and see why Rose is hesitant to marry Harry Maylie. I think you will find some surprises as you read—really exciting! We will watch some scenes from the BBC version as we complete our discussion. Dickens is truly a master at portraying his characters!!

No-Spin Economics

We finished our study of the currency in our monetary system and found the ingenious ways that counterfeiting is prevented. The new bills are much more colorful as well as containing watermarks and microprinting. Next week, we will have a quiz on the coins and currency that we have been studying. Don’t forget to study the notes on the sheets you were given in class: the Coins and Currency Handout, the One Dollar Bill, and the U.S. $100 Bill (both sides). Read Chapters 5 and 6 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Also, don’t forget to bring your completed worksheet on Crash Course Economics video #5 so that we can discuss it in class.

Watch the following video on how our currency is printed.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Nice job guessing various characters from your reading of The Count of Monte Cristo as we played a game of charades! Review the characters and story line as we prepare for our final test next week. We will do a complete review in our two games in our next class.

In your Literary Terms notebook, complete the following pages: Denotation and Connotation ( pages 1-3), Hyperbole (pages 4-5), Idiom (pages 6-7), Imagery (pages 8-9), Dialect (pages 57-59), and Local Color (pages 72-73).

Watch the following video to better understand idioms.

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