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Assignments for 03/20/2023

Assignments due for the week of March 20th, 2023

Quick Looks at Great Books

We reviewed the entire book, The Count of Monte Cristo, by playing three competitive games. We will finish the last Jeopardy game and then take our final test at the beginning of our next class. For next week, read the historical section of your study guide for To Kill a Mockingbird (pages 18-26). We will discuss it together and prepare to start reading the book. Let me know if you need me to bring you a copy next week. Bring your copy of your literary terms to class as well.

Watch this brief summary of the novel to aid your review.

Practical Public Speaking

Prepare a 1-2 minute “Introduction” speech for next week. You will be introducing a speaker who will be coming to address our class. You may introduce a friend, family member, political figure, sports hero, historical character, fictional character, Biblical character, etc. Welcome him/her to our class, give a list of his/her qualifications and experiences, some biographical information, and then introduce the person by name to the class. You may use notes, but do not merely “read the introduction to us. We will plan to finish all our speeches thus far before we leave for spring break. (We will not meet the week of week of April 3. Make sure you are caught up so that we can begin our 3 big speeches after we return.

American History

We went over the first 24 Presidents to review for our test on the U.S. Presidents. I gave notes today on exactly what to study for our test. We will do a game review and have the test on our last day before spring break—March 27. For next week, read Chapter 23 on The Roaring Twenties. On our last day before spring break, I will give you everything you need to know from Chapters 20-24 for our test in April.

Watch this video again to review the first 22 Presidents.

No-Spin Economics

We spent time today examine all our current bills being printed. It is amazing that so much effort and thought goes into preventing the counterfeiting of our bills. Microprinting, watermarks, security ribbons, and other features all attempt to thwart would-be counterfeiters. Great job in locating all the microprinting on each bill over five dollars!! Some are just too small to see with the naked eye! Next week, we will have our test on coins and currency. In addition to what we did in class, study the sheets you were given on Coins and Currency, the One Dollar bill, and the One Hundred dollar bill. The test will be mainly True/False and Matching.

In addition to studying for the test, read Chapters 7-9 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? We will go over these after our test.

Watch this video to review the one dollar bill.

Adventures in American Literature

We took questions on today’s reading and had our final quiz. We then finished all our study guide questions as well as questions and analysis of what Twain intended.

Next week, we will have a game review of the entire book before our final test on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Please bring your American literature “text” to class with you so that we can refer to a few pages there. Also read “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain.

Also, watch this brief video to review the entire novel with this overview.

Watch this brief recap of symbols.

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