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Assignments for January 27th, 2025

Quick Looks at Great Books

Since we did not have classes today, we will discuss Acts IV and V next week. You will just need to do Literary Terms in your notebook. We will also do quizzes and the rest of your study guide. For our next class, do the following lessons: Denotation and Connotation (pages 1-3), Hyperbole (pages 4-5), Idiom (pages 6-7), Imagery (pages 8-9), and Oxymoron and Paradox (pages 13-15).

American History

I hope you had fun outside today, or maybe you stayed warm inside. Did you watch any of the January 20 Presidential Inauguration today? It was history in the making!

Study for our test next week on Chapters 10-17. We will have a review game over those chapters, so listen to every question! Don’t forget that some of you have Presidential reports on February 3. Reconstruction (Chapter 17) is the rebuilding that took place in the South after the war. Here are the things to know from Chapter 17.

People—1,3,4,5,6, and 7

Terms—1, 4, 5, 7,8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22

Also, watch this short video on Millard Fillmore, our 13th President.

No-Spin Economics

Happy Snow Day! I hope you tried to listen to some of the historical inauguration ideas today on Martin Luther King day. Anyway, we’re beginning a new study this semester. Don’t forget to secure a copy of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard Maybury in the next two weeks.

Also, much of our study of economics comes from Bastiat’s book, The Law. I don’t want you to have to read it because it IS hard to get through. I’m going to give you two videos to watch. One is a summary of Bastiat’s book, and the other is Crash Course Economics #1. I was going to give you a worksheet to fill out on each of them. (No reading, just watching!) I will include those sheets as well.

Each of the videos is around 10 minutes, and the answers to the questions come directly from the video. Pause it if you want as you fill out the sheets. We will go over both in class for next week.

Bastiat’s The Law

The Law handout/notes PDF

Introduction to Economics (Crash Course #1)

Crash Course Economics Student Questions PDF

Practical Public Speaking

Welcome to Practical Public Speaking! This will be a great course, and you will know well everyone in the class. This is something you can’t get at home! (for homeschoolers) Unfortunately, we have to wait until next week to get started since I was ready to pass out your texts. We will begin next week with our study of communication and double up so that we can cover everything that is needed. Enjoy the snow this week and stay warm!

Adventures in American Literature

We will go over all that you did for homework and discuss Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. We will do as much as possible to cover some of the upcoming poets in class. (I have your text ready to give you for second semester.) Sorry, but you need that to do the next series of poets before Mark Twain and our covering of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. See you next Monday. Stay warm and enjoy the break.

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