Assignments due for the week of September 19th, 2022

Quick Looks at Great Books

Great beginning to our study of the French Revolution, the setting for the first novel we will be reading. For next week, read pages 1-33 in your purple study guide and prepare the oral report you were assigned. If you have any questions about what your topic was or about the presentation, just email me. After we have gone over the pages you read, given our reports, and answered any questions, we will have our first quiz on the details of the French Revolution. It will be great preparation for the events you will read about in this historical novel.

Watch the following brief summary of the French Revolution.

PSAT/SAT/ACT TEST PREP

We at least learned today what PSAT stands for as well as the SAT test. Each student should be able to answer that question! We will start taking our timed tests, beginning with the Reading Test two weeks from today. There is no homework for next week. Just be sure to bring back the workbook (syllabus) you were given in class today.

American History

Each class member did an amazing job in the game which helped put major events in American History in the proper order. We will continue our study by reading Lessons 1 and 2 in your new textbook. (No worries, if your text is still coming by mail this week. You will still have time to read the assignment for next Monday.) Begin a spiral notebook or a section in your three-ring binder for notes from your reading in Lessons 1 and 2. Keep your notes here to study for quizzes and tests. For Chapters 1 and 2, answer the review questions in your text (four sections for Chapter 1 and six sections for Chapter 2.) This will help you to understand important facts and people. We will discuss both these chapters and their Review Questions in class next week.

Watch the following brief video about the first 13 colonies:

U.S. Government

It was great getting to know each student and seeing just how much they knew about how our government works! We will play the same game we played today at the end of the semester. They will be amazed at how much they know then! For our next class, complete Lessons 1 and 2 in the workbook you were given in class today. I will always give you the Crossword answers on the first page of each lesson. We didn’t have time to do this in class today, so the answers are below. Just write them into your text and finish the lesson from there. The six terms listed on the second page of each lesson can be found in your Glossary on pages 97-99. On the “Evaluate” section, read the questions and be prepared to discuss them in class. You will need to complete pages 2-4 and pages 5-8.

Lesson 1 Government Terms

ACROSS                    DOWN

1. Communism        2. Monarchy
5. Aristocracy           3. Fascism
6. Socialism              4. Common
7. Capitalism            8. Autocracy
9. Democracy          10. Cabinet
12. Civil                     11. Right Wing
14. Amendment      13. Law

Lesson 2 Government Terms

ACROSS                   DOWN

1. Anarchism           2. Civil
3. Abdication           4. Bureaucracy
6. Dictator                5. Habeus Corpus
9. Impeachment     7. Legislative
11. Conservatism   8. Liberalism
13. Executive          10. Due Process
14. Amnesty           12. Autonomy

Please let me know if you have any questions at all about the assignments. We will also talk about the Federal holiday this month that you may not know about!

Adventures in American Literature

We played a game today to see how much students knew about the events in American history since these events directly influenced the literature of each period. They did really well! Those students who are also in American history will keep in touch with what was going on in America in each literary period. We will start with the beginnings of American literature by reading the Native American legend on pages 6 and 7 and by answering the questions on page 8. You were given an alphabetical list of the states of the Union. (We will add more notes to many of these states as we progress through the literature.) For next week, try to label the map of the continental states on page 5 of your textbook. Do as many as you can and look up any that you do not know. We will continue our discussion of page 2 next week, an excerpt from Charles Kuralt’s book, On the Road with Charles Kuralt.

Watch the following two videos which aired on CBS news as he tried to capture the diverse geography and people of our great country.

Thomas Jefferson

Joseph Charles

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