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Assignments for 04/26/2021

Assignments due for the week of April 26th, 2021

Practical Public Speaking

At our next class, we will begin our Demonstration speeches. They will need to be 6-8 minutes in length, and you will need to hand in an outline to me before your speech. If you did not give me your subject today, don’t forget to email it to me by Wednesday, April 21. There will be a table for you to use for your demonstration. You can also use the TV to project from your computer or mine. Let me know if you need anything else at all. We have a variety of subjects to watch next week!

Quick Looks at Great Books

Review all of To Kill a Mockingbird for our final test next week. We will do a Jeopardy! game to review the characters and events of the story. Also, read pages 2 and 3 and pages 18-26 in your study guide for a quiz on the background of the book and its author. Watch the following scenes from your reading:

No-Spin Economics

Today, we went over Crash Course Economics video #9 and also Penny Candy Chapters 10-12. The students have notes on both to study. We will have a quiz next week on this video and these chapters. They really reinforce each other and cover the same subjects.

For next week, watch Crash Course Economics videos #10 and #11. Fill out the handouts you were given in class today and be prepared to discuss these concepts. Also, search to find out who the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve is.

Adventures in American Literature

Great job exposing us to a variety of American short stories! It was easy to see the situational irony in the stories by O. Henry! For those of you who were assigned stories for next week (Anneka, Gavin, Maille, and Joe), read the entire text and tell us the story. We will then discuss the author’s use of local color and any other literary terms that might apply.

In your literature notebook, read the excerpt from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis on pages 149 and 150. Then answer the three questions on p. 151. Read Erma Bombeck’s satirical passage on “Convenient Hearing” and be prepared to analyze it together. Answer the questions on page 154 about these two selections. Read the two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay on pages 160 and 161 and answer the corresponding questions.

Make sure you have access to a copy of The Giver by Lois Lowry. You will be given your first reading assignment on Monday, April 26.

Watch the following 60 second analysis of satire.

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