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Assignments for 05/03/2021

Assignments due for the week of May 3rd, 2021

Practical Public Speaking

Your Demonstration speeches today were so much fun!! It’s really a learning and enjoyable time for all of us! We will finish our Demonstrations next week. If you did not turn in your outline today for your speech, please email it to me this week. You can just type it in an email or send it as an attachment. Also, for everyone (those who gave speeches today and those who will complete them next week), please be prepared to tell me in our next class period your selected topic for our final speech—the Persuasive speech. Choose a subject that you feel strongly about as we discussed in class today.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Great Jeopardy game review today before our final test on To Kill a Mockingbird. Since we ran out of time, we will take the final quiz on the background material at the beginning of our next class. Read all of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. The study guide you received today is divided into “days” instead of chapters. There are no chapters in the book. Answer at least five questions under each of the five days. We will discuss the entire book as well as the life of the author. There is so much religious symbolism in this book. See if you can identify it as you read the story of Santiago.

No-Spin Economics

Today we took a quiz on Crash Course Economics video #9 and on Penny Candy chapters 10-12. We then went over the handouts for videos #10 and #11. You were given an information sheet with more information on the Federal Reserve Bank and its districts. We will take a quiz on this material next week. You can just study the sheets we went over and the Federal Reserve information sheet you were given.

For next week, we will finish our last video and the review chapter (Chapter 13) in your Penny Candy book. Crash Course Economics video #12 is posted here for you. You also received a handout which we will discuss next week. We will then begin reviewing for our final test and the final exam.

The 2008 Financial Crisis

Adventures in American Literature

We covered the satirical works by Sinclair Lewis and Erma Bombeck, Robert Frost’s poems, and the sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay. We also heard more short stories by other local color American authors.

For next week, begin our newest and last book for the year, The Giver by Lois Lowry. You were given a study guide today to accompany you on your reading journey. Read Chapters 1-12 and answer questions 1-30 in the study guide. You will find this story fascinating and will grow to enjoy each new character you meet.

Watch the following description of a “dystopian novel.” We will apply these points in our discussion of the book.

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