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Assignments for 03/21/2022

Assignments due for the week of March 21st, 2022

Field of clovers from above

Debate

We will continue to finish our one-on-one debates next week. Be prepared to give your comments and suggestions as well as a winner for each debate. Begin to research the JFK assassination using the key words I gave you. (Donald Sutherland’s park bench scene, the “magic bullet”, grassy knoll, Oswald patsy, lone gunman, single bullet theory, and the JFK assassination in general.) In case you weren’t in class, here are the two teams that we are using. Try to connect this week and plan who will research what and who will prepare to speak. We will do this debate on March 28 before our spring break.

Group 1: Oswald did act alone.

  • Abigail
  • Samuel
  • Olivia
  • Kierstyn
  • Macy
  • Darrin
  • Sara
  • Nick
  • Emily
  • Benny

Group 2: Oswald did not act alone.

  • Josie
  • Devin
  • Lucy
  • Natalie
  • Lily
  • Colin
  • Sol
  • Ariel
  • Emma
  • Cianna
  • Cyrus

Watch this brief explanation of the events – John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Explorations in British Literature

As you completed Oliver Twist, all mysteries were explained and past events took on new meaning. (Notice the foreshadowing used in the portrait in Mr. Brownlow’s house.) Oliver’s true identity is finally revealed, and we see the connection between the young boy and the kind gentleman, Mr. Brownlow. The villains meet their just ends, and all is resolved! Dickens has a knack for tying up all ends and characters in his own way!

Next week, we will have a Jeopardy review game of the entire book of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Review the characters and plot as well as any reading you need to catch up on. We will finish some of the concluding scenes on the BBC version and prepare for the final test. In your British Literature notebook, complete pages 142-145, answering the questions that follow the excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Notice the use of irony and the choice of names for each character. (As always, the names describe in some way the characteristics of the characters themselves.)

Watch these commentaries on the characters and themes of Oliver Twist. (Theme—the central idea of a work)

No-Spin Economics

We reviewed Crash Course Economics video #3 and went over #5 and the handout you were given two weeks ago. Next week, we will have a quiz on videos #3 and #5. Make sure you know the various kinds of unemployment and what the economic goal for our unemployment is. Also, view Crash Course video #6 and complete the handout you were given in class.

Here is Crash Course Economics video #6.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Great review of The Count of Monte Cristo in our games today. Hopefully, that helped your identification of characters and events on today’s test. In your new study guide for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, read the background information on pages 18-26 to prepare for a quiz before we start our reading. It’s a little background of life in the 1930s in America’s South. Make sure to secure an unabridged copy of the book to begin reading next week.

Watch this brief summary of motifs in literature. We have gone over them in each of the books we have read, even though this term is not in your Literary Terms notebook.

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