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Assignments for 05/16/2022

Assignments due for the week of May 16th, 2022

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Debate

Fantastic job on today’s debate! Both sides did a great job. I love that you are learning to “think on your feet” and are “aggressively” handling the Crossfires. Super job for both teams! I look forward to these next two debates, which will be the final debate for our teams. Make this one the best of the year, applying all the tips we have gone over throughout the semester. This is like the final exam of the year for this class! Do your very best, and don’t forget to practice aloud in advance of the day of your debate.

May 16 Debate

  • The minimum wage should be raised to $15/hour: Nick, Lucy, Lily, Olivia, Samuel
  • The minimum wage should NOT be raised to $15/hour: Emily, Emma, Cianna, Ariel, Darrin

May 23 Debate

  • Does social media cause more harm than good? Yes—Benny, Macy, Sara, Kierstyn, Natalie
  • Does social media cause more harm than good? No—Colin, Josie, Devon, Abigail, Sol, Cyrus

Explorations in British Literature

We played a Jeopardy Review Game before we took our final test on Animal Farm by George Orwell. The students all have a great grasp of the book’s connection to the Russian Revolution and Orwell’s intended comparisons. They all did an excellent job on the quizzes, so I expect great results on the test as well!  🙂

For next week, complete the worksheets you were given on the lives of J.R.R. Tolkien and Agatha Christie. You can find the basic information online by googling them, or you can check out The Tolkien Society and Agatha Christie’s website.

Watch the following videos on the lives of these authors.

Christie

Tolkien

No-Spin Economics

We went over the handout for Chapters 10-12 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? and also the notes from Crash Course Economics video #12 on the 2008 Financial Crisis. We took our quiz on the homework from last week.  

Next week, you need to study the Penny Candy book Chapters 1-13 for a test. This will prepare you for the final exam the following week, May 23, which will cover the entire book and the Crash Course videos 1-7 and 9-12. We will do a review game before we take the test on the book.

Quick Looks at Great Books

We took the final test for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and then began our discussion of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. We went over the religious imagery that Hemingway used and a little bit about his personal life. We took a quiz on the first half of the book and will finish our discussion and take the second quiz next week. We will do a review game of the entire book and take the final test. We will then go over what you should study for our final exam on May 23. Watch this video to review the literary term imagery.

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