Assignments due for the week of November 15th, 2021
PSAT/SAT/ACT Test Prep
Review the layout of the ACT test on page 37 in your notebook. Then complete the practice drill on pages 39 and 40. We would have done this in class, but do it for homework, and we will go over it in our next class as well as doing some more practices for the ACT grammar section. This “advanced grammar” practice will be helpful to you in all of your classes! Continue to study page 41 on the twelve classic errors on the ACT. We will have a quiz to specifically review these basic errors after we have done the practice drills in class. Also, review the handout on Indefinite Pronoun Rules to clarify some troublesome rules about subject/verb agreement. Let me know if you have any questions.
Explorations in British Literature
We will finish the two remaining reports that we have on the Elizabethan Age and begin our discussion of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Hopefully, you picked up your study guide today in the center lobby at KAT. If you were sick as well, just continue the assigned reading and catch up with the study guide next week. Read Act III of the play for next Monday. We will watch the video recorded in London of these scenes. Act III is one you just HAVE to see performed and not just see on the written page!! 🙂
Make sure you have reviewed the characters on pages 2 and 3 of your study guides. We will go over the questions on pages 3 and 6-8 in class. We will not have any of the quizzes until we have gone over the work in your study guides. Also, complete the questions, as best you can, on pages 10-12 and pages 14 and 15. Let me know if you have any questions at all.
Watch the following scene from a performance of Twelfth Night recorded in the Globe Theater in London. Enjoy!
U.S. Government
We will still play our review game next week to review the material on the test on the lessons on voting, the two political parties, and the President and Vice President. For next week, complete the next lesson in your notebook on Citizenship, pages 54-56. The answers to the crossword on page 53 are given below.
CITIZENSHIP
Across Down
1. Jus sanguinis 1. Jus soli
4. Dual 2. Alien
6. Noncitizen 3. Apartheid
8. Citizenship 4. Diplomatic
10. Naturalization 5. Civil
12. Expatriate 7. Nationality
9. Stateless
11. Refugee
Complete Lesson 14 on Citizenship and study for next week’s test, which we will take after our review game.
Quick Looks at Great Books
We will still do our two review games before we take the test and go over your Chronolog to review the events of the book in chronological order, as well as examine the family tree you were given regarding all the major characters. Next week, I will give you a study guide for Silas Marner by George Eliot, and you will have your first reading assignment. For next week, continue working in your Literary Terms notebook and be sure to bring it to class with you. I will check that you have done the pages, and we will go over it together.
For next week, complete the following terms in your notebooks: Hyperbole (pages 4-5), Onomatopoeia (pages 31-33), Characters and Characterization (pages 52-53), Conflict (pages 54-56), and Flashback (pages 62-63). (You will see Flashback illustrated in your first assignment in Silas Marner.)
Watch the final scene of the book illustrated here.