Assignments due for the week of April 15th, 2019
Practical Public Speaking
Fantastic job on Impromptu speeches today!! Such interesting stories, enthusiasm, and natural gestures! Be prepared to present your Informative speech in our next class. Don’t forget to have an outline ready to hand in when you do your speech. Your outline and speech should include an introduction, body, and conclusion and should be 5-7 minutes in length. (Practice out loud.) Focus on eye contact, articulation, and intonation as you prepare.
Adventures in American Literature
Read Twain’s excerpts and stories on pages 117-127 and answer the questions about each one.
Read “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte and complete pages 128 and 129 about the characters in the story.
Read Mark Twain’s short story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, and be prepared for a quiz on the two stories.
If you had an assigned report for next week, please be prepared to give it.
No-Spin Economics
Great job on our Coins and Currency review today! Watch the following video on “Productivity and Growth” and complete the study guide you were given in class.
Study all of our past Crash Course videos for a test. (#1–#6) You can review from the study guides we have gone over and watch the past videos if needed. We will do a game review before we take the test.
We will also illustrate the Free Trade principle through a game.
Quick Looks at Great Books
Complete your reading of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Answer at least five study guide questions from each of the “four days” in the book. We will discuss the book and the study guide as well as take quizzes on the story.