Assignments due for the week of September 21st, 2020

PSAT/SAT/ACT Test Prep

Great first day of class!! Make sure you can share with your parents what you learned today about the PSAT: format, content, dates given, etc. Don’t forget to bring your syllabus back to class as we will be doing some practice sessions to prepare for the PSAT Reading test. No homework! 🙂

Quick Looks at Great Books

Great job thinking about the comparisons between the American Revolution and the French Revolution! We will discuss more later, but there really was a difference in the bottom line! For next week, read pages 2-33 in your purple study guide and be prepared for a quiz. We will go over all of these pages BEFORE the quiz. Also, be prepared to share with the class the information you found on the subject you were assigned. Just give us some extra facts about each person or subject you were given. (relating to the French Revolution 1789-1799) This is only oral and not a report to be turned in to me.

View the following video to review the events of the Revolution:

U.S. Government

Nice participation in our game on government facts today. You will be amazed at the end of the semester how much you know and how easy it will be when we try this same game again!! In the “textbook” you were given, complete pages 2, 3, and 4. For the discussion questions on page 2, you do not need to answer them on a separate sheet of paper. Just look over them and be prepared to discuss them in class. Lesson 1 will be working on select government terms. Here are the answers to the Crossword on page 1. These are the terms you will be using throughout the lesson.

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

Do you know what special holiday occurs this week? Watch this video, and we’ll learn more next week.

Adventures in American Literature

Nice work compiling a time line of major American history events. Our literature was written about and affected by what was going on around the authors. In your “textbook” read the paragraphs on page 2 (“Different Drummers”) and answer the question there. On pages 3 and 4, list the 50 U.S. states in alphabetical order. We will add to the other columns together in class. On page 5, see how many U.S. states you can name without looking at a map. (Note that this is only the contiguous states. Alaska and Hawaii are not included.)

Also, go to the following links to view Charles Kuralt’s journalistic examples of “local color”. (Local color – writing that brings to life a specific region of a country – dialect, customs, clothes, mannerisms, landscape, descriptions, character types, and attitudes.)

Previous Assignments:

• No previous assignments for the 2020 school year.