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Assignments for 05/12/2025

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Assignments for May 12th, 2025

Quick Looks at Great Books

We took our To Kill a Mockingbird test and went over the Great Depression setting of the book. Then they took Quiz #1 on the historical setting. Then we started discussing The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. We discussed over half of the book and will finish next week. We will take two quizzes on the book, have a game review of the book and take our final test on The Old Man and the Sea. I will review again what to study for the final exam.

American History

We took our State Placement Test today and had the rest of our Presidential reports. I then went over three facts about each President from McKinley to Trump. All they need to do is study the notes I gave them. The test will be Multiple Choice with four Presidents to choose from for each question. (We will also hear from Tyson, Ana, and Alyse before our test.) Also, for next week, read Chapter 30, our final chapter. Study your study guide for the final exam on May 19.

Watch the following Presidential “minutes”.

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George H.W. Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

No-Spin Economics

We reviewed for next week’s test by going over our quiz from last week. Then we fully went over the assigned video for this week. This is our final video on the 2008 financial crisis. After explaining each question on our worksheet, we then went over the numbers of questions to remember for our final exam. Then we reviewed for our test next week on the book Penny Candy Chapters 1-13.

We will do a competitive game review of these chapters, which I will comment on those things to especially remember. On May 19, we will have our final exam which covers Penny Candy Chapters 1-13 and Crash Course Economics #1-#7 and #9-#12. We will also have a game review that last day for the final exam.

Practical Public Speaking

We almost finished our Demonstration speeches today. We will start with Lincoln and Abby next week. Then we will begin our Persuasive speeches for the last two weeks. Don’t forget to make up any speeches that you still have outstanding. What a great variety of demonstrations we have had!

Adventures in American Literature

We reviewed your homework due today and went over several other things for the final exam. For next week, read the short selection on “Convenient Hearing” by Erma Bombeck. Then answer the questions on page 154, regarding the excerpt from the novel Babbitt and the reading by Erma Bombeck. Read the short story “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway and answer the questions on page 156.

For those four students who volunteered to tell us about other stories, let me know if you have any trouble finding them. Also, because you are doing a special story, you do not have to read “In Another Country” by Hemingway. You can listen to the summary of it and fill in the answers to the questions assigned.

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