Next week, we will go over all of today’s homework, review for our test on the Elizabethan Age, and pass out the new pages for second semester. We will start work on our new pages.
American History
We will still have our game review over Chapters 10-17 and take the test. As well, read Chapter 18 in your text.
Watch these videos on the subjects in Chapter 18, the Age of Industry.
Nicola Tesla
The Gilded Age
No-Spin Economics
We will begin our new semester next week now. Please bring a notebook to hold the pages you will receive each week.
Quick Looks at Great Books
Review Acts IV and V of the play. Please bring your study guides to class as we will fill most of it out. We will take Quiz #2 and review for our test next week.
Watch this final scene of the play.
Debate
We will begin our new class this week. Please bring a notebook to hold the text I will give you for the class. We would have had no homework this week, but we will begin next week.
We went over all of today’s homework in addition to the various appearances, attitudes, social status, religion, and politics of the Puritans and the Cavaliers. We also started a review of terms for our Elizabethan test two weeks from today.
For next week, read Samuel Pepys’s diary account of the Great Fire of London and answer the questions on page 89. Read the satiric poems on pages 91 and 92 and answer the questions following each poem. Read the satire on the Elizabethan Theater and answer the three questions that follow. Read “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift and answer the questions on 94 and 95. Read Samuel Johnson’s biography excerpt and answer the questions that follow on page 98. Lastly, read Daniel Defoe’s Journalistic Fiction of the 1665 plague and answer the questions on page 101.
We will review for our test, and I will give you the pages to add to your notebooks for second semester.
American History
We reviewed Chapters 16 and 17 and reviewed the Chapter Reviews as well, circling the ones you need to know. (The Civil War and The Reconstruction) We also went over the Civil War game you have been playing each week. Next week, we will have a competitive game review before our test on Chapters 10-17.
No-Spin Economics
We will begin our new semester. Please bring a notebook to hold the pages you will receive each week.
Quick Looks at Great Books
Read Acts IV and V to complete your reading of Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. We will complete the study guide together in class. We will discuss the last two acts and take Quiz #2. Don’t forget to bring your Literary Terms notebook to class with you.
Watch this scene from Act I of the play.
Debate
We will begin our new class this week. Please bring a notebook to hold the text I will give you for the class.
We went over any questions on our Twelfth Night test and our quiz on Macbeth. We covered Dr. Faustus and the questions on page 63. Then we went over “The Galley” and the questions on pages 65 and 66. We reviewed the rhyme scheme of Shakespeare’s sonnets and the questions. We read Bacon’s essay on Studies and answered the questions on page 69. We then read the poems on page 71 and answered the three questions. We talked about the Cavaliers and the Puritans and the philosophy of the Cavaliers.
For next week, read John Donne’s: “Meditation XVII” and answer the questions on page 76. On page 77, read “Holy Sonnet X” and answer the three questions. Then read John Bunyan’s The Trial of Faithful and answer the three questions. Then skip to page 80 and read the excerpts from Paradise Lost and answer the questions through page 85. Read his short poem “On His Blindness” and answer the questions on page 86.
American History
We reviewed some of the Presidents we had reports on and then played games on the Presidents we have studied and the Civil War. For next week, read Chapter 17 on The Reconstruction. We will go over Chapters 16 and 17, and I will give you what need to know from the Chapter reviews. Two weeks from today, we will have a test on Chapters 10-17.
Watch these one minute videos from our reports today.
Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
James Buchanan
U.S. Government
We reviewed those things we have studied this semester. This is the same competitive game we played the first day of class. They did much better this time! Next week, we will play anther review game before we take our final exam for Government. Study your text and the copies of tests you saved. Watch one more time the video on the Space Force since it was created after our textbook.
Quick Looks at Great Books
Read Acts I-III in Cyrano de Bergerac. We will do most of the pages in the study guide together. Read page 9 to know what to do on page 10 to create what the Hotel de Bourgogne might have looked like at the time.
Don’t forget to bring your completed Literary Terms notebook to class next Monday.
Practical Public Speaking
Next week, we will do the impromptu speeches of those who were absent today. Also, we will do the Demonstration speeches for Asher, Daniel, and Glory.
I’m looking forward to next semester. You are familiar with those in the class, but next semester, you will be working as a team. We will work on logic and individual debates, along with three major debates.
We watched parts of Act IV and all of Act V on our video, and the students watched Shakespeare’s characters come to life. We took the final quiz (#3), and next week we will do our final test. We will also discuss Macbeth and how Shakespeare’s tragedies work. Study for our test and our quiz on Macbeth.
Watch this brief summary of Twelfth Night.
Review this summary of Macbeth.
We will also observe some of the traditions of Elizabethan England. (Shakespeare’s time)
American History
We reviewed and then took the quiz on the videos you watched. We discussed Chapters 14 and 15 and went over what to study for the test in these chapters.
For next week, read Chapter 16, and we will go over the Chapter Review at the end. Watch the following one minute videos on the next set of Presidents.
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
U.S. Government
We caught up today with the lessons the students had already done—State Government, City Government, and the Post Office. We will go over the military next week. Complete the military part of our government by doing the Air Force page. Here are the crossword answers for Lesson 24: Air Force (United States).
Watch the following theme songs of the branches of the military. (Air Force included)
Space Force (newest branch of the military)
Quick Looks at Great Books
We watched some of the BBC video and reviewed the entire book with the study guide questions. Next week, we will do a brief Jeopardy game review and Chronolog review before we take our final test on Silas Marner. In the time left, we will celebrate a Victorian Christmas in honor of Charles Dickens and George Eliot!
Complete the following pages in your Literary terms notebook: Conflict, (pages 54-56) and Dialogue (pages 66-67)
Practical Public Speaking
Next week, we will finish our Demonstration speeches with Brian, Landon, Avalyn, Asher, Ana Leah, Grant, Daniel, and Glory.
Next week, we will go over much of Act IV and all of Act V on our British video! Review Twelfth Night. We will take Quiz #3 and do the final test if time. Also, read the scene by scene summary of Macbeth, a tragedy by Shakespeare. We will discuss it and will have a quiz on it our last week before Christmas. (December 15)
Watch the following brief video to review the play.
American History
Next week, we will quickly review the videos you watched and take a quiz on them. (Urijah and Soffia, please be ready with your Presidential reports.) Read Chapters 14 and 15. We will go over the happenings, and I will give you the items on the test (after Christmas) from the Chapter Reviews.
We will have more Presidential reports on December 15. This will be the last chance for extra credit this semester. If you want to choose a President, email me.
Otherwise, I will take volunteers next week and assign them after that. The Presidents to choose from are as follows: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Johnson.
Watch the following one-minute videos, to review what you learned from the reports.
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Martin VanBuren
U.S. Government
Next week, we will go over the homework we have not yet completed, and I will give you what you need to know for the final exam. (State Government, City Government, the Post Office, and Army—Lessons 18-21.)
You have finished the book (Silas Marner) now. Please print the copy of the Silas Marner Chronolog to review the entire book. We will watch a few scenes from our BBC video and discuss the questions from your study guide. We will also take Quiz #3. Review the entire book for our final test. We will do a game review and the Chronolog first.
Watch this short video summary of the book.
Complete the following lessons in your Literary Terms notebook: Alliteration (pages 22-24), Flashback (pages 62-67), and Irony (pages 69-71).
Practical Public Speaking
We will continue with the speeches we were going to do today. Informative speeches: Daniel and Glory Demonstration speeches: Belle, Will, Brian, Braden, Zach, and Landon.
We watched a lot of the video of this play—particularly Maria’s scheme portrayed and a large part of Act III. We answered the questions on pages 14 and 15 in the study guide.
You have already finished reading the play. We will watch some scenes from Act IV and watch Act V as well as finish the study guide. (Quiz #3 on Acts IV and V) Don’t forget to bring your British Literature notebook to class since you are doing pages 51-54 for homework. (Twelfth Night)
Watch this scene that you have already read even though the characters are played by different actors and actresses.
American History
We went over Chapters 12 and 13 and the Chapter Reviews that went with them. You do not have to know everything—just the things I told you to circle. You did a great job with the reports on the Presidents. You covered everything you needed. I hope the rest of you took notes. I will go over each President again before the test. We will do our last two reports next week.
You will do a quiz on the videos at the first of the class. (Multiple choice and only ten questions.) You have no readings—just watch the videos for every answer on the quiz.
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
The Battle of New Orleans
U.S. Government
We reviewed for our test on the Supreme Court, the Law, Trial, Immigration, and Citizenship. It was very competitive and only one point separated the two teams! Then we took our test and talked about the way the President travels in the Beast and on Air Force One.
Watch these two videos on Presidential travel to see what they look like for yourself.
The Beast
Air Force One
For next week, do one lesson (21) in your notebook. Here are the Crossword answers for page 81 Lesson 21: Army. We will go through all you have done so far and give you the terms to know for the final exam.
Quick Looks at Great Books
We discussed the study guide questions for the first quiz on Silas Marner, watched the BBC video, and took the quiz. We will finish our discussion of Chapters 8-15 and take the quiz on those chapters next week.
Finish reading Silas Marner Part II—Chapters 16-21 and Conclusion. Look over the questions and look up anything you don’t know. Surprise ending with Chronolog saved for you!
Practical Public Speaking
We continued with our Informative speeches today and also did two of the Demonstration speeches. Next week we finish the final Informative speeches with Daniel and Glory first. Then we’ll continue the Demonstration speeches with the following students in this order: Belle, Will, Brian, Braden, Zach, and Landon.
Today, we covered pages 6-13 in the study guide and watched a number of parts of the video produced in London. (Renaissance Theater Company and acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh from the Royal Shakespeare Company)
For next week, finish reading the play by completing Acts IV and V. We will watch the video and and take the test on Act III next week as well. We will finish the video on Acts IV and V and take that quiz the following week.
American History
We went through Chapters 10 and 11 and went over the things to know from the Chapter Review for each chapter.
For next week, read Chapters 12 and 13. (Next week, you will only have videos to watch!) You will meet lots of inventors in these chapters, especially in Chapter 13. They will all be in a matching section on our next test. The Presidential reports will be presented next week too.
Watch the following videos from your reading.
Sojourner Truth
Cyrus McCormick
U.S. Government
Today. we reviewed all the lessons for next week’s test. (Lessons 13-17) We took a sample of the Citizenship just so they could see how much the future citizen has to know! They also took a quiz to determine if they lean to the left or right. (Liberal or Conservative) These are not for a grade but for them to keep.
For next week, complete Lesson 20 on The Post Office. Most students are not aware that the Post Office is an arm of the Federal Government! Here are the answers for Lesson 20: The Post Office. Also, study for our test on Lessons 13-17. We will also have a competitive game review next week before we take the test.
Watch this video on the work of the Post Office.
Quick Looks at Great Books
The students did an excellent job in the review game today! I think that after all this time, they really know this book well. After the game (which was very close), we took the test. I can’t wait to grade them and see how they did! Then we discussed the author and characters of our new book, Silas Marner by George Eliot.
For next week, read Chapters 8-15 in your book. (through Part I) There are lots of questions in your study guide. Just read through them and look up any you don’t remember or can’t answer. We will go through the questions to make sure you understand what you read. We will take Quiz #1, discuss the questions, and watch the BBC video. (VERY true to the book) We will discuss the current reading and take Quiz #2 the following week.
Practical Public Speaking
We did five more Informative speeches today—all very interesting. Next week, we will finish all the rest of the Informative speeches and start our Demonstration speeches. Next week, the following students will give their Informative speeches: Ana Leah, Avalyn, Glory, Daniel, and Asher. Briana will start our Demonstration Speeches.
We started class today with a Powerpoint on the life of Elizabeth I and her father Henry VIII and how she came to the throne. This complimented Silja’s report on the Politics of the Elizabethan Age. We then reviewed the Globe Theater and how it was constructed when James Burbage tore The Theater down. We then started on our study guide for Twelfth Night. We went over the characters in detail and answered the questions in Part B on page 3. We covered page 4 and then ran out of time.
Next week we will watch the video filmed in London, and take Quiz #1. We will work on the study guide together in class. Read Act III for next week and be prepared for Malvolio’s arrogance to shine!
Watch this brief excerpt from Act II, Scene 2. It’s so much better to see the nonverbal actions with the words themselves!
American History
After reviewing Chapter 7, we took a brief quiz on the ten multiple choice questions. After collecting the quizzes, I went over each answer to each question so that they would not miss the same question on the test. (GREAT review) Then we did a competitive game review of Chapters 7-9 concluding with the review of Chapters 1-6. Then we took the test. I also assigned reports for the first eight Presidents for extra credit. Let me know if you forgot to write down which President that you have.
For next week, read Chapters 10 and 11. we will not have another test until after the Civil War. (Chapters 10-17)
Watch these short videos about what you are reading and things you need to know.
The Era of Good Feelings
The Trail of Tears – One Minute History
The Battle of Tippecanoe
U.S. Government
We started today’s class with a Powerpoint on the Supreme Court. It reinforced a lot of what was in our notebooks as well as added even more information and pictures. We then went over the Lessons on The Supreme Court, The Law, and Trial.
Next week, we will finish the lesson on Trial and review the lessons on Immigration and Citizenship. We will take a sample Citizenship test just so we have an idea of how much those applicants have to know about our country. Also, for next week, complete the lessons on State Government and City Government. (Lessons 18 & 19) Here are the answers for crosswords Lesson 18: State Government and Lesson 19: City Government.
Two weeks from today on November 24, we will have a test on multiple lessons—Immigration, Citizenship, The Supreme Court, The Law, and Trial. (Lessons 13-17) We will have a game review before the test. (Please bring your notebook to class!)
Watch this tour of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
Quick Looks at Great Books
We reviewed the study guide questions for the last reading assignment before taking the final quiz. We then reviewed the whole book. We discussed the themes and the the protagonist and antagonist. We talked about how Dickens used individual characters to represent entire groups of people that were present in the French Revolution.
For next week, read Chapters 1-7 in our new book Silas Marner by George Eliot. Most people know the book well by this point, but we will have one more review game as well as the final test on A Tale of Two Cities. (All objective test—matching, multiple choice and True/False) The last half of the class, we will begin Silas Marner and make sure you understand what is going on in it.
Watch this summary of the book to review the characters and events.
Practical Public Speaking
Great job on your Informative Speeches today. You did a super job telling your “report” to us because you were really interested in your topic!
Next week, we will finish with our Informative Speeches with the following giving speeches: Ana Leah, Avalyn, Daniel, Grant, Brian, Landon, Asher, Glory, and Braden. For those of you who are finished, decide on your next topic for your Demonstration speech.
Today, we talked about the fairy tale that the Wife of Bath told on her way to Canterbury. (since we didn’t have time last week) It was a cute story and typical for that wife of 5 different men! Then we started the homework the students had done. We covered the poem and questions on page 45 and found out why the arts flourished so much during the Elizabethan Age! We covered the struggles with conscience the Greeks had and the morality plays and why they were so popular at that time in history. We talked about Shakespeare’s Globe theater and why it was important to have a permanent place for plays to be performed. We also talked about Shakespeare’s experiences and reaffirmed Will’s reports. We also found out things that Marlowe tried to teach us in the excerpt from Dr. Faustus. We also talked about sonnets and why the English sonnet was different from Petrarch’s sonnets.
Students were given a handout on Shakespeare’s sonnets. Please complete it for next week and begin Twelfth Night by Shakespeare—Acts I and II. Please bring your study guide with you. We will work on it together in class.
Watch another short video about the Globe Theater.
American History
We reviewed Chapters 7 and 8 and went over the important points in Chapter 9. Next week, we will take a quiz on Chapter 7 for review, After the quiz, I will give you all the answers since many of those same questions will be on the test. We will then do a competitive game review of Chapters 7-9 and a brief review of Chapters 1-6. (Study your past tests to review for this.) Then we will take the test. I Know the students will do well. They’re getting better with each test they take!
Watch these videos about what you are reading and reviewing.
Thomas Jefferson & the Louisiana Purchase
The History of the Star-Spangled Banner for Kids: Francis Scott Key
Battle of New Orleans, in 1814
U.S. Government
We reviewed some of the main points about political parties and then began our comprehensive game review of Lessons 8-12 in addition to our Powerpoint on the Electoral College. /Then we took our test, and I think everyone did really well! Next week, we will have a Powerpoint on the Supreme Court and have pictures of all the members. We will also go over Lessons 16 and 17. (The Law and Trial—since all of the Supreme Court are lawyers and former judges.) Here are the answers for Lesson 16 The Law and Lesson 17 Trial.
Watch the video about the Judicial Branch.
Quick Looks at Great Books
We discussed the ending of the book and found that many students were completely surprised! We talked about the funny AND serious parts of the book. We went over the study guide questions as well as reviewing last week’s questions and taking last week’s quiz. You were also given a genealogy page to keep the characters straight and explain some of Sydney’s prophecies.
For next week, please complete the Chronolog you were given today for review. (Events in chronological order) Also, since you have no reading to do, complete the following terms in your Literary Terms book that I gave you at the beginning of the year: Personification, pages 16-18; Symbol, pages 19-21; Allusion, pages 49-51; Characters and Characterization pages 52-53; and Foreshadowing, pages 64-65. We will have a game review before we take the test.
Watch the following videos to help you review the book.
Practical Public Speaking
We covered a lot of pages in your notebooks today. We tested your listening skills and improved your inflection and articulation with tongue twisters!
Next week, your informative speech is due. The following people will give their speech next week. Briana, Kate, Belle, Will, Grant, Daniel, Avalyn, and Ana Leah. Please be ready with your speech next week, and we will finish with the others the following week. I randomly drew these names except for the ones who volunteered for next week.
We went over the entire test for the Middle Ages today and then started our reports. Silja was sick today, but we went through all the rest. I added anything I thought they might need to know. We also talked about the video on the website last week,Why Shakespeare, and focused mainly on words that Shakespeare created like “swagger” and idioms like “break the ice” and “heart of gold”. We talked about Elizabeth the Queen and how England became a great nation. We will finish the homework itself next week.
For next week, read the morality play about Everyman on page 49 and 50 and answer the three questions that follow. On page 59, read about Shakespeare’s stage. You just need to write a paragraph at the bottom of the page. Read about the Royal Fans on page 60 and briefly answer the questions. Read the excerpt from Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and answer the questions on page 63. Lastly, complete the little sonnet on pages 65 and 66, along with the questions.
Watch this short tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater.
American History
We passed back the tests on Chapters 4-6. The students did much better on this test. Parents, don’t forget to sign the test or text me that you saw it! (269-217-9996) We also went over Chapters 7 and 8. as well as the Chapter Review for each of these. We then played games to continue to review the states and capitals and general history and geography of our country.
Watch the following videos of things you need to know from these chapters.
XYZ Affair
War of 1812
U.S. Government
We reviewed for Quiz #2 and then took the quiz itself. We did a sheet on the core beliefs of our two major parties and the third parties in America. They were supposed to put the sheet in their notebooks with lessons on political parties. We went over the lesson on the President and will quickly go through the Vice-President next week.
Next week, we will have our first Government test on the lessons on Voting, the Electoral College, Political Parties, the President and the Vice-President. (Lessons 8-12) The students were told to add the sheet we did today to the the Political Parties section and the notes from the Powerpoint to the Voting section. (Understanding the Electoral College and the voting map 2022 with updated electoral college counts) Also, complete Lesson 15 on the Supreme Court on pages 58-60.
Watch this video to review the Electoral College before our test.
The Electoral College
Quick Looks at Great Books
We reviewed last week’s reading quickly and then took Quiz # 4. The students are doing well with the discussion and coverage of each section of their reading. They are asking excellent questions! We discussed today’s reading up to the reading of Dr. Manette’s letter that he wrote in his prison cell. He condemned the Evremondes and all their descendants!
For our next reading, we will finish the book by reading Chapters 11-15 and answering study guide questions 73-80.
Here is an explanation of one of the chapters in your reading this week.
Practical Public Speaking
We finished our last four extemporaneous news articles this week, and I helped each student choose a topic for his informative speech. We went over the outline for this speech as well as a planned introduction and conclusion.
Begin planning your informative speech by coming up with an outline, an introduction, and a conclusion. We will cover more pages in your text next week and begin giving our speeches the following two weeks.
