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Assignments for 05/04/2020

Assignments due for the week of May 4th, 2020

Debate

Great improvement on the debates today! You did a super job implementing suggestions from the one-on-one debates! Don’t forget to send me your team peer evaluations if you have not already done so. Email if you have any questions. We will finish our last one-on-one debate next week. Research both sides of the new debate this week. You will meet separately with your group in our next class to plan and strategize. (Come to your group with research you have done to promote your side and rebut the other team.

The teams for the next debate are as follows:
PRO—Self-driving cars should be pursued and promoted as technology allows.
Jack, Josiah, Conlan, Rebecca, Micah, Ricky

CON–Self-driving cars should be prevented and limited to protect the people.
Nolan, Ben, Zach, Anna, Daren

Explorations in British Literature

Read Animal Farm by George Orwell for our next class (or listen to it online). We will discuss the entire book and its symbolism in class. You will have a quiz on the book which will be sent to your moms after our discussion and answering of your questions.

Watch this brief bio of George Orwell:

Watch this clip of Orson Welles’s famous radio broadcast based on The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

No-Spin Economics

Read Chapter 13, the final summary, in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (You will receive notes on this chapter to include in your notebook.)

For our final Crash Course Economics video, watch number #12 and fill out the worksheet you will receive in an email.

Watch this brief video on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Watch this brief bio of Ernest Heminway.

For our next class, read our last book of the year—The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. We will discuss the entire book next week, and the quizzes will be sent to your mom after that. Note the religious symbolism throughout the book.

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