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Assignments for 02/15/2021

Assignments due for the week of February 15th, 2021

Practical Public Speaking

Such enjoyable interviews today!! I loved learning more about each of you who was interviewed! We will finish the other half next week, continue our unit on “Listening”, and study the four basic types of speeches. We will prepare to do our first speech the following week.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Continue reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and answer questions 51-76 in your study guide.

  • Abridged version — Chapters 28-41
  • Unabridged version — Chapters 36-62

Watch for new settings and new characters in this next “episode”.

Watch this short video of information about Carnival celebrations in Venice, Italy. This is the new center of elaborate festivals, just as Rome was in The Count of Monte Cristo. Disguise played a big part in the fate of the characters you are reading about!

No-Spin Economics

Great illustration of the practice of free trade in our economy today! Remember that trade always benefits everyone involved!! Next week, we will have our first quiz on the notes from The Law and also the notes from Crash Course video #1 and Chapters 1 and 2 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? You should have notes in your notebook to study for each of these.

For next week, also read Chapters 3 and 4 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Complete the handouts you were given in class for these chapters and also for Crash Course video #3.

Watch Crash Course Economics #3 at this link:

Watch the following short video to review an important concept for our quiz next week.

Adventures in American Literature

After reading and discussing some of Mark Twain’s writings, we are ready to begin his most famous novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Read Chapters 1-10 and answer questions 1-26 in your new study guide. Bring any questions you have about your reading to class, and we will answer them before we take a quiz on these chapters. You had a “taste” of the adventures of these Missouri boys in your reading from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer today. I think you will really enjoy Twain’s telling of this story!

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