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Assignments for 04/12/2021

Assignments due for the week of April 12th, 2021

Practical Public Speaking

Fantastic job on impromptu speeches today! Such interesting stories, enthusiasm, and natural gestures! Be prepared to present your Informative Speech next week on your selected topic. Complete an outline of the Introduction, Body, and Conclusion of your speech to hand in to me before you do your presentation. Be sure to use at least one of the strategies in your notebook in your introduction and in your conclusion. (pages 53 and 60) Don’t forget to practice aloud to make sure you hit the 5-8 minute time frame! Follow the instructions we went over in class (from your notebook—page 67) to make your practice time as beneficial as possible. The more you practice, the more confident you will be! 🙂 Contact me at if you have any questions at all.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Great review of our literary terms in class today! Begin reading our next book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Read Chapters 1-14 and answer questions 1-34 in your new study guide. We will go over any questions you may have before we take the quiz.

Watch the following brief bio of Harper Lee:

No-Spin Economics

We discussed the prevalent lie in economics and the truth about automation and new inventions. We also went over Chapters 5 and 6 and notes from Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? We discussed some of the current policies and expenditures, studied how much one trillion really is, and watched the current U.S. Debt clock as it grows each day! We went over the beginning of what you will read next week in Chapters 7-9 of Penny Candy –double-digit and runaway inflation.

For our next class, read Chapters 7-9 of Penny Candy and watch Crash Course Economics video #7. Complete the handout you were given for the video and be prepared to discuss it in class. The Crash Course video is included here for you. Also, watch another brief explanation of how much a trillion really is!

Adventures in American Literature

We went over surrealism in art as it was manifested in Stephen Crane’s poem and then finished his poem “War Is Kind” and noted all the irony expressed! We also watched more of the biography of Mark Twain and his contribution to American literature.

For next week, you will have two quizzes—one on two short stories, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte and “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain. The other quiz will be on the short story by Jack London “To Build a Fire”. To prepare for the quiz, complete page 136 in your notebook — Jack London—Survival and the Forces of Nature. If you want to review “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”, you can go to the Previous Assignments (March 22) and to pages 128 and 129 in your American literature notebook. The other two stories are linked below.

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

“To Build a Fire”

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