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Assignments for 03/16/2020

Assignments due for the week of March 16th, 2020

Debate

Great job on your first experience with a public forum debate! I think you have a better idea of how to prepare and present. We will do some practice “games” next week as well as choose topics and partners for a “one-on-one” debate on Monday, March 23. To give you more experience with the Public Forum format, watch at least 20 minutes anywhere in the following video of an actual high school debate.

Explorations in British Literature

Finish the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens by completing Chapters 41-53 and answering the corresponding questions in your study guide. We will watch some remaining scenes from the BBC movie and begin to review the entire book.

No-Spin Economics

We will have two quizzes in class next week—one on the new $100 bill and one on our study of the U.S. coins and currency. Study the handouts you were given to prepare for these two quizzes. Also, plan to make up any quizzes you have missed in the past two weeks. (Crash Course videos #3 and #5.) Make sure you have completed your reading of Chapters 5 and 6 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

Quick Looks at Great Books

Great job completing one of the best novels ever!! 🙂 We will continue to discuss and review before our final test on the book next week. (Monday, March 16) If needed, review the events and characters for the test. In your Liteary Terms notebook, complete the following sections: Onomatopoeia (pages 31-33), Parallelism (pages 34-36) Dialect (pages 57-59), Local Color (pages 72-73), and Mood and Tone (pages 74-76).

Watch the following short video song to reinforce the use of onomatopoeia and give some word examples:

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