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Assignments for 02/10/2025

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Assignments for February 10th, 2025

Quick Looks at Great Books

We reviewed Acts IV and V and went over the rest of the study guide for Cyrano de Bergerac. We will have a game review next week and then take our final test. I will give out the study guides for The Count of Monte Cristo next week and give the assignments for both the abridged and unabridged version of the book.

Watch this ending of the play.

American History

We did a review game today and then took our final test on Chapters 10-17. This test will go on with the first semester grade. If you would like to know the grade your student has for first semester, please email me and I will average it for you. Next week, we will go over Chapters 18 and 19. Please bring the crosswords on Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Also, we will do our Presidential reports on Zachary Taylor through Abraham Lincoln.

Watch this short video that explains The Gilded Age.

No-Spin Economics

Next week, we will finish the Specialization and Trade sheet (Crash Course Economics #2). Read Chapters 1 and 2 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and complete the worksheet you were given. In your notebook, it is advisable to keep your Penny Candy worksheets together and your Crash Course Economics sheets together for study purposes. We will have our first quiz a week from next Monday (Feb. 17). We will go over the worksheet on the Penny Candy chapters and finish Crash Course Economics #2. We will then play a game that illustrates how free trade benefits everyone.

Practical Public Speaking

Next week, we will begin our personal interviews and get to know each other even better! Also, using page 12 in your text, find three ads to illustrate at least two of the strategies listed there. This week is a great time to watch the ads on the Super Bowl, but you don’t have to use those. You can find any online, on TV, on billboards, or on the radio.

Adventures in American Literature

We went over all of the students’ reading thus far. (Redburn, The Minister’s Black Veil, Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, Thanatopsis, and the works of the Fireside poets.) For next week, read about the poetry of Emily Dickenson through the play written about her, The Belle of Amherst. Read her poetry and answer the questions on pages 100-104. Then read the poetry of Walt Whitman and answer the questions on pages 105-111. Lastly, read the excerpt of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and answer the questions that follow. (pages you were given in class)

Watch this short biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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