Assignments due for the week of April 22nd, 2019
Practical Public Speaking
Great start on very “informative” speeches today! Make sure to be prepared to finish the Informative speeches next week. Also, be thinking about what you would like to do for your Demonstration speech and let me know in class.
Adventures in American Literature
We will finish our discussion of “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” next week. Continue analyzing Stephen Crane’s poetry on pages 130-135 and answer the questions given.
Read Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire” (PDF).
If you prefer, you can also listen to “To Build a Fire”:
Answer the questions on page 136 in your notebook and be prepared for a quiz on the story.
Read the short story “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry on pages 137-139 in your notebook. Note the situational irony so typical of all of O. Henry’s stories. We will do page 140 together in class.
Read the two excerpts on satire. There is a selection from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis on pages 149-150. Answer the three questions on page 151. Then read the modern selection by Erma Bombeck on pages 152 and 153 and answer the comparison questions on page 154.
No-Spin Economics
Great job on the review of Crash Course Lessons 1-6 today! Read Chapters 7-9 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? We will get a more in-depth look at inflation. I will give you review sheets from these chapters to study.
Also watch the Crash Course video #7—Inflation, Bubbles, and Tulips and complete the study guide you were given in class.
Quick Looks at Great Books
We will have a review game and final test on The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Review by completing the Chronolog on page 13 of your study guide.
Make sure you have completed all the assigned terms in your Literary Terms notebook.
Watch the following video for historical background on our next novel—To Kill a Mockingbird.
Watch the following brief video on the life of author Harper Lee: