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Assignments for 02/28/2022

Assignments due for the week of February 28th, 2022

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Debate

Next week, we will be presenting the ads for the Senate candidate. I will give you 15-20 minutes to practice together before you present them to us. We will discuss, and hopefully recognize, the logical fallacies illustrated. Please don’t forget to contact anyone in your group today who was absent. Then we will begin our one-on-one debates. Remember what you have chosen for a topic and begin to do research for your debate.

Explorations in British Literature

Continue your reading of Oliver Twist by completing Chapters 15-27 and answer the corresponding study guide questions. We will continue going through the book and watching the BBC version of it. It’s great to put an image to the description if you have not already done so.

Watch this brief scene where Oliver meets Jack Dawkins:

No-Spin Economics

We took our quiz today on Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Chapters 3 and 4 and then went over the handout for Crash Course Economics #4. Next week, we will have a quiz on video #4 and then use the rest of class to study our “coins” and the dollar bill.

DON’T FORGET TO BRING A MAGNIFYING GLASS TO CLASS WITH YOU NEXT WEEK.

Here is Crash Course Economics #4 if you need it again.

Watch this video to review the principle of supply and demand:

Quick Looks at Great Books

Continue your reading with the following assignments and complete your study guide questions 83-93.

  • Abridged version: Chapters 54-63
  • Unabridged version: Chapters 82-103

Watch the following video that show how Carnival (and Mardi Gras) are celebrated in Venice today. This is presently the key location in Europe.

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