Assignments due for the week of March 13th, 2023

Quick Looks at Great Books

We finished the study guide questions today for the rest of the book. We answered questions that students had trouble understanding and went over the list of Allusions in the story, which were on page 13 in your study guides. Next week, we will review the entire book with games and go over some of the other details in the storyline.

In your Literary Terms notebook, complete the following lessons:

Dialect pages 57-59
Dialogue pages 60-61
Local Color pages 72-73
Mood and Tone pages 74-76
Moral and Theme pages 77-78
Narrator/Point of View pages 79-80.

These terms will be illustrated directly in our next book — To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Please secure a copy as soon as possible and let me know if you need to borrow a copy from me. If you already have any of these sections completed, you are ahead of the game!!

Practical Public Speaking

We caught up on our past speeches today and are ready for our next endeavor. We had quite a variety of manuscript speeches, covering a variety of topics and subjects.

For next week, we will do our first extemporaneous speech. In preparation for our major speeches to come, this one will only be three minutes. Find a news article that interests you and share it with the class. Give the title and then give the main points of the story. You may find a human interest story or major news event for the week. Use newspapers, magazines, TV or radio news, or online news. (Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Kalamazoo Gazette, WWMT, etc.) Use note cards of some kind, but DON’T READ the article to us! You should have the major points in your notes, but you should just tell the story in order to maintain eye contact and a conversational tone with your audience.

What is the subject of your article?
Why did you choose this article?
Is it a local, state, national or international story?
As you practice your extemporaneous speech aloud, why would the speech never be exactly the same each time?

American History

We finished our review game today, and then took our test on Chapters 18-20. Read Chapter 22 for next week on World War I. We will go over both Chapters 21 and 22 and cover the terms you need to know in the Chapter Review. Benny, Mallory, and Connor M. will give us reports on Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison. We then will review all the first 24 Presidents and what you need to know about each for our test. Study the list on page 538 in your text to familiarize yourself with the order in which they served. (first 24 only)

Watch this video to review the first 22 Presidents. (23rd was Benjamin Harrison and 24th Grover Cleveland again!)

No-Spin Economics

We took our quiz today on Crash Course Economics videos #3 and #5. Then we examined all of our U.S. coins both old and new. The students saw examples of clad coins and reeded coins. Next week, we will finish the study of our money by examining all of our currently printed bills. DON’T FORGET TO BRING A MAGNIFYING GLASS TO CLASS WITH YOU NEXT WEEK. You will definitely need it as you examine the bills for the features I give to you. Also watch Crash Course Economics video #6:

Complete the worksheet you were given in class today so that you can use it to study for our test.

Adventures in American Literature

We took questions on today’s reading and discussed Huck’s and Jim’s adventures with the King and the Duke. We watched a section from the Disney movie, which gives us a good picture of the characters. For next week, complete the book by reading Chapters 30-43 and answering questions 69-87 in your study guides.

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Assignments for 03/13/2023