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Assignments for 03/28/2022

Assignments due for the week of March 28th, 2022

Field of clovers from above

Debate

Great job on the one-on-one debates today!!  Lots of research and things to think about on each subject!  We have one more to finish next week before spring break.  Then we will have our JFK debate to practice the format and process of a public forum debate.  Please make arrangements to get with your group this week via Zoom, Google Doc, or just email or phone.  You will have a few minutes together to get organized before the debate next week.  You need to be “passionately persuasive” to make sure your team will win the approval of the judges. 🙂

Explorations in British Literature

GREAT review of the entire book of Oliver Twist today in the Jeopardy game.  I love your enthusiasm, and most of all, your correct answers for every question!  You never cease to amaze me!  We did a thorough review of characters, events, the life of Dickens, and literary terms.  Next week, we will take the final test on the book at the beginning of our period.

You can watch the following video to review all aspects of the novel.

We will go over the excerpt you read for today from Hard Times by Charles Dickens as well as the questions you answered.  We will do a review of the Victorian Age as a whole and the key writers who wrote during this time.  As we do a brief study of the works of Lewis Carroll, read the explanation and use of puns on page 148 in your notebooks. (“Pardon My Pun”)  Then read the “Jabberwocky” poem and answer the questions on pages 149 and 150. 

Watch the following version of “Jabberwocky”, courtesy of the Muppets, to further explain and visualize this poem taken from Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.

No-Spin Economics

We went over the handout for Crash Course Economics #6 and reviewed some of the past principles we have studied.  Next week, we will have a test over Crash Course Economics videos #1-6.  We will do a game review of all the important facts before the test.  Also read Chapters 7-9 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?  You can always go to the bottom of this page to review the videos in  “Previous Assignments” or just study the handouts your were given for each lesson.

Quick Looks at Great Books

We did a powerpoint preview of our next book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.  Then we went over the study guide of historical background material as well as the life of the author.  We took our first quiz for this book, which was a review of the background for the book.  This novel takes place in the South in America during 1933-1935.  We brushed up on the history of the Great Depression and other practices of that time period.  We also worked on two terms in your Literary Terms notebook that are particularly prominent in To Kill a Mockingbird—Dialect and Local Color.  Then we went over Denotation and Connotation on pages 1-3.

Watch the following video to review Denotation and Connotation.

For next week, read Chapters 1-11 and be ready for a quiz.

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