Assignments

Assignments for February 24th, 2025

Quick Looks at Great Books

Here is the reading in The Count of Monte Cristo for this week.

  • Chapters 13-27 (abridged version)
  • Chapters 16-35 (unabridged version)

Answer questions 19-51 for this reading.

Watch this tour of the current Chateau d’If.

American History

Today we reviewed for next week’s test on Chapters 18-20. In case you were absent, here are the things to study from the Chapter Reviews.

Chapter 18 Chapter Review

People

1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, and 30.

Terms

3, 7, 10, 12, 20, 21, 30, and 34.

Chapter 19 Chapter Review

People

7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 27.

Terms

1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, and 17.

Identify

5, 9, 12, 13, 14, and 15. (Many of these overlap.)

Chapter 20 Chapter Review

People

4, 5, 9, 16, 18, 19, 23, 27, and 30.

Terms

6, 9, 13, 16, and 19

Places

1, 3, 5, 7, and 8.

Identify

1 and 3

For next week, study only these numbered items from each chapter.

No-Spin Economics

We took questions and then took Test #1 on the notes from Bastiat’s The Law, Crash Course Economics #1, and Penny Candy Chapters 1 and 2. We then went over Crash Course Economics #3 on Economic Systems and Macroeconomics.

For next week, read Chapters 3 and 4 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Students were given a sheet to fill out on Chapter 3. I will give each of you a filled out sheet for Chapter 4 next week. Then we can go over both chapters. There are really important facts in Chapter 3 on Inflation. Here is the Chapter 3 Inflation sheet the students were given today in case you were absent.

Also, watch Crash Course Economics #4 on Supply and Demand.

 

Here is the study sheet for Crash Course Economics #4 passed out in class today in case you were absent.

Practical Public Speaking

We finished the last of the second set of interviews this week and began our study of the art of listening. We went through several pages in our workbook and will continue next week.

Next week we will begin our practical public speaking by writing an introduction of a speaker to our class. Write it out (around one minute) and then memorize it. You can introduce a speaker to the class by giving his/her qualifications for this topic, what he/she is speaking on, and finally the name itself. This can be a famous athlete, famous musician, Bible character, fictional character, historical character, or whatever you would like. (dead or alive!) You don’t have to really know the person personally or bring that person to class. It can be a family person—anyone who is an expert at something they could share with us. (father, mother, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, friend, etc.) Have fun with this!

Adventures in American Literature

We went through all of Mark Twain’s short stories as well as the excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain is a master satirist which we noted in each of his stories.

For next week, we are ready to begin our next novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Read the first ten chapters and answer the corresponding questions 1-26 in the study guide you were given today in class. (You can get it next week if you were absent.) We will discuss these first ten chapters BEFORE we take the quiz (all multiple choice). After this, we will take the quiz first and then go over the study guide questions. The quiz will mainly check to see if you read the chapters.

Watch this biography of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).

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