Assignments due for the week of November 16th, 2020
PSAT/SAT/ACT Test Prep
We are continuing to review grammar rules for structure and punctuation in preparation for the ACT English test next week. All of this will help in other classes as well as on all standardized testing. In your notebook, study the page on the “Twelve Classic Grammar Errors on the ACT”. We will have a quiz on these and go over the answers before we take the timed ACT test.
Quick Looks at Great Books
Great review on A Tale of Two Cities today! You have definitely mastered the details!! This week we will be beginning our second novel — Silas Marner by George Eliot. Read Chapters 1-7 and try to answer as many questions in your study guide on these chapters as you can. We will go over all of them in class. Also, we will have a quiz on each section as we go to keep you up-to-date with your reading. We will actually read this book in three weeks, and you will find it easier reading than the writings of Dickens! 🙂
Watch the following video on the literary term flashback and see if you can find an example of this in this week’s reading.
U.S. Government
No quiz next week! We will try to catch up with what you quiz on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We will go over everything you need to know in class. We will also discuss the origins of our political parties and add to the material you go over in your notebook. To prepare for that, complete Lessons 9 and 10. (pages 34-36 and pages 38-40)
Below, you will find the answers to the crosswords at the beginning of those lessons. (pages 33 and 37)
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
ACROSS DOWN
4 Ripon 1 Fremont
5 Watergate 2 Breeds
6 Union 3 Moose
7 Nast 8 Slavery
10 Grand 9 Bovay
11 Hoover 12 Elephant
14 Prosperity 13 Lincoln
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
ACROSS DOWN
1 Dixiecrats 1 Donkey
4 Copperheads 2 Roosevelt
7 Oldest 3 Republican
8 Tilden 5 Solid
9 New Deal 6 Money
11 Jackson 10 Wallace
13 Fair Deal 12 Society
Adventures in American Literature
For this week, read Chapters 7-12 and answer questions 15-29 in your study guide. We will continue to pursue the lives of the main characters as they develop and as they each continue their daily struggles and their goals.
Watch the following video explaining the literary term flashback. Remember how this was used in your reading today.