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Assignments for April 28th, 2025

Quick Looks at Great Books

Great understanding of the book and the ending! Good participation in the discussion so far too! Next week, we will have our final test on To Kill a Mockingbird and Quiz #1 on pages 18-26 in your study guide. Read these pages to familiarize yourselves with the Great Depression era. We will also go over these pages in class. Also, complete the Chronolog to review the entire book in chronological order (page 16).

Watch these scenes from the movie.

American History

We played a game between guys and girls to review the material in Chapters 21-24. We then had a report on Theodore Roosevelt and reviewed Chapter 25 on World War II for our quiz next week. We talked about what a Cold War is and how it affected our countries. We will finish the following reports next week.

William Taft—Tysen
Herbert Hoover—Sam
Harry S. Truman—Moriah
Dwight Eisenhower—Nolan
John F. Kennedy—Chris
Lyndon B. Johnson—Selah
Richard M. Nixon—Ana
Gerald Ford—Eden
Jimmy Carter—Keanna

Also, read Chapters 26 and 27 for next week. Study for the quiz on Chapter 25. (World War II)

Watch these Presidential minutes.

Theodore Roosevelt

William Taft

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

No-Spin Economics

We tried to review all that the students have read so far. They were given summaries of Penny Candy Chapters 10-13. We explained all of these sheets. Crash Course Economics #7, #9, and did most of #10. Next week, we will have a quiz on Penny Candy Chapters 7-9 and Crash Course #7. Also, watch Crash Course #11 and complete the sheet you were given in class today.

Watch this video to get an idea of how much a trillion dollars is!

Practical Public Speaking

We finished our Informative speeches today and will start our Demonstration speeches next week. Let me know if you need something special for your presentation, I will have a table available if you need to use it to demonstrate your topic. Choose something you already know how to do, so you can talk to us and not read to us!

Adventures in American Literature

We finally took our quiz on the two short stories you read a few weeks ago—The Outcasts of Poker Flat and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. We also took Quiz #1 on The Giver since we thoroughly covered all the study guide questions last week. Then, we answered any questions the students had on the rest of the book. We were then ready to take Quiz #2. After that, we finished the study guide questions and discussed the ending of the book, which Lois Lowry left very ambiguous.

Next week, we will have a game review of the entire book and take our final test. After that, we will start discussing a short story you are to read for next week—To Build a Fire by Jack London. We will have a quiz on the story after we have taken questions and discussed the basics of the story.

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