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Assignments for 01/23/2023

Assignments due for the week of January 23rd, 2023

Winter cottage

Quick Looks at Great Books

We will have our final test on Cyrano de Bergerac next week. We will do a review game before the test and also finish the last three pages of your study guides. Make sure you obtain a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas by next week. You will receive your study guide and first assignment next Monday.

Since you have no new reading this week, complete the following pages in your Literary Terms notebook:

  • Onomatopoeia pages 31-33
  • Poetic License pages 83-85
  • Pun pages 86-88
  • Satire, Parody, and Farce pages 92 and 93

Watch the following final scene of Cyrano de Bergerac.

Practical Public Speaking

We will begin second semester next week, January 23, 2023. All you will need is a three-ring binder to hold the workbook I will give you. It will be a “fun” class, and I am looking forward to it! Lots of interaction and lots of practical experience!

American History

We went through the Civil War today and all the important points in Chapter 16. We will have a quiz next week on these main points you were given in Chapter 16. Also, read Chapter 17, our last chapter before our test on the events that led up to the Civil War, the war itself, and the Reconstruction period. This will be a good review of this chapter before the test.

Watch this video of President Andrew Johnson.

No-Spin Economics

Next week will be our first week of second semester. No homework of course! The only thing you will need is a three-ring binder to hold the pages I give you over the semester for Economics. This is such an important subject in the nation at this time. You will enjoy the study of our current currency as well as the principles of economics that we cover.

Adventures in American Literature

We went over Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and their literary writings as well as the excerpt from Herman Melville’s Redburn.  Then we had six wonderful reports on Poe’s short stories by six of our students.  I loved the animated narration and dramatic emphasis with which each story was presented!

For next week, read “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.  This next week, we will become familiar with many of Hawthorne’s short stories. He is as well-known for these as he his The Scarlet Letter.

Read “The Minister’s Black Veil” and answer the questions about it on page 85 in your notebooks.

Then read the excerpt from “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” on pages 86 and 87 in your notebooks and answer the questions on page 88.

Reports on the following stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne are due next week:

  1. “Young Goodman Brown” — Audrey
  2. “The Birthmark” — Norah
  3. “My Kinsman, Major Molineux  — Addison
  4. “The Ambitious Guest” — Ethan V.
  5. “Rappaccini’s Daughter — Finley
  6. “The Maypole of Merry Mount” — Joyann

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