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Assignments for 05/02/2022

Assignments due for the week of May 2nd, 2022

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Debate

Great times with your teams this week as you prepared for upcoming debates!!  Next week, we will be debating the Supreme Court justices’ ability to serve for life or whether they should have term limits.  On May 9, we will be debating on the voting age for U.S. citizens.  Don’t forget to get with your teams during the week to confer and evaluate each other’s presentations.  Practice aloud ahead of time to ensure a smooth presentation!  Fantastic job on the Balloon Debate today—very creative thinking on your feet!! 

Parents, we would love to have you join us for any or all of our debates on the next four weeks.  You can watch your son or daughter or watch on weeks that they are not debating.  I will email you with more information.

Explorations in British Literature

We went over the first five chapters of Animal Farm, and the students seemed to have a great understanding of what Orwell was trying to communicate.  We also began discussing one of Britain’s famous writers that we have not covered covered yet—Rudyard Kipling.  He wrote so many poems, essays, stories, and novels.  All of his works would fill a total of 35 volumes!  We noted today, just briefly, how many different settings he used in all of his various works.  We also responded to George Orwell’s essay on “Shooting an Elephant.”  We saw that he only shot the elephant to “save face” and because so many spectators came to watch and cheer him on!

Next week, we will finish our discussion of the entire book (Animal Farm) and work on the rest of the study guide together.  We will take the quiz on questions on the book, as well as a matching quiz on the characters. Also, read pages 157-159 and answer the four questions on the last page.  This is an excerpt from H.G. Wells, the inventor of “science fiction.”

Watch this brief history of a momentous radio broadcast of the novel by H.G. Wells.

No-Spin Economics

We went over Chapters 10-12 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?  (You were given handouts for these chapters that were updated with current numbers.)  We also reviewed  Crash Course Economics #9 from your worksheet that we discussed in detail last week.  Next week, we will have a quiz over Chapters 10-12 in Penny Candy and Crash Course video #9.  We went over the contents today of Crash video #10.  For next week, complete the worksheet you were given for Crash Course Economics #11.

View video #11 here.

Quick Looks at Great Books

We finished our discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird and took our final quiz.  You asked some great questions before we took the quiz!  Hopefully, that helped all of you on the quiz if you had any trouble following the ending and exactly what happened. Review for our final test next week by completing page 16 (Chronolog) in your study guide.  Also, since you have no reading assignment for this week, make sure you have completed the following pages and terms in your Literary Terms notebook—terms 1-10, 12, and 19-32.  These have been previously assigned.  This is just for you to check that you have them all done.  We have gone over them all in class, but you will see them again on the final exam.

Watch the following final scenes from your reading in To Kill a Mockingbird.

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