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Assignments for 01/30/2023

Assignments due for the week of January 30th, 2023

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Quick Looks at Great Books

We finished our Cyrano study guide today and played a review game to prepare for our final test. Based on how they did in the review, I think they did very well on the test!

For next week we will start our next book, The Count of Monte Cristo by the French author Alexandre Dumas. Complete the reading as follows for this week:

  • Chapters 1-12 (abridged version)
  • Chapters 1-15 (unabridged version)

Then answer questions 1-18 in your study guide.

Practical Public Speaking

We had a great time discussing all the forms of communication and the role verbal and nonverbal language plays in each of them. No homework this week! We will continue in our workbook next week in class and prepare for our one-on-one interviews. We will also discuss the layers of self-revelation that we tend to follow.

American History

We went over Chapter 17 — Reconstruction and will have a short quiz on this brief chapter. I gave the students the people, places, and terms they will need to know from this chapter. Also begin studying for our big test on Chapters 10-17 in your textbook. We will do a thorough review game next week, to prepare for the test, which we will take at the beginning of the next class period. (We will also have a reading assignment for that week.) To benefit the most from the review, please study the chapters for the test, particularly the ones that led up to the Civil War. (Chapters 10-15) That way you can see which areas you still need to study.

Watch this brief video of our 18th President and the amazing life of U.S. Grant.

No-Spin Economics

The students received their final exams back from Government class today. They all did a fantastic job!! The students should show their parents all they know!! We then watched several videos on Economics and what it involves. We also watched a video on “Why YOU Should Study Economics” by Mr. Clifford who is the cohost of the Crash Course Economics series we will be studying. The students will need a copy of the book Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard Maybury in the next two weeks.

For next week, watch the brief summary of the important points in Frederic Bastiat’s The Law. Even though it was written many years ago, it is still applicable in so many ways and remains the foundation for our economic systems today.

Then complete the study sheet you were given in class. Study this sheet, which we will go over in class, and we will have a short quiz on the information on it.

Also, we will begin our study of Economics by watching the first of 15 videos we will cover this semester—Introduction to Economics. These videos will be reinforced with the information in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?. We will start our reading there in about two weeks. You were also given a study guide sheet with questions to answer from the video. These sheets should go into your notebooks to study from when we have tests on these videos.

Adventures in American Literature

Today we covered the questions on page 85 on “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Then we went over the excerpt from “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and went over page 88 and the characters in general. I told the students the rest of the story so that they knew what happened in the entire story. We also did the oral reports on some of Hawthorne’s short stories and identified his use of symbolism in each of them. We will finish the remaining two next week.

For next week, continue with the second semester text you were given today in class. Read “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant on pages 89 and 90. Then answer the questions on page 91. Start reading the Fireside poets on pages 91-96 and answer the questions on pages 96 and 97.

Watch this brief video for more information about the Fireside Poets.

Also read and answer the questions on the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Boys”. (pages 98 and 99) He was the class poet for the graduating class from Harvard in 1829.

Finally, read and answer the questions on Emily Dickinson’s poetry on pages 100-104. We will discuss all of these poems in class and analyze them as well. I will check your notebooks to see that you have read and attempted to answer the questions for these works.

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