Assignments due for the week of May 20th, 2019

Practical Public Speaking

All speeches need to be completed next week. Most of you will be doing your Persuasive speech, but we still have three Demonstration speeches to finish. Don’t forget to turn in an outline for each speech, FOLLOWING THE FORMAT ON PAGE 48 IN YOUR NOTEBOOK. Try to incorporate into this last speech all the different areas we have worked on—eye contact, volume, inflection, gestures, strategies in introduction and conclusion, etc. Plan to eat your lunch in our room so that we are sure to have enough time to finish all the speeches we have left.

Adventures in American Literature

We will review the poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Robert Frost as well as “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry. Before the final exam, we will do a game review of the terms and material you are to study for the test. Use the Final Exam Review and Study Guide along with the list of Literary Terms to prepare for your exam.

No-Spin Economics

Your final exam will cover Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Chapters 1-13 and Crash Course Economics #1-7 and #9-12. Use your past tests and quizzes as well as your study guides to review. Check the past weeks’ assignments at the bottom of the page if you would like to rewatch any of the videos.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Review for your final exam by studying your Literary Terms notebook. The terms will be covered on the exam in a multiple choice or matching format. Be familiar with the six novels we have read this year. Know the author, main characters, setting, and major events of each book.

Watch the following video for a quick review of some of our key literary terms:

Previous Assignments:

• 05/13/2019
• 05/06/2019
• 04/29/2019
• 04/22/2019
• 04/15/2019
• 04/08/2019

Assignments due for the week of May 13th, 2019

Practical Public Speaking

We will finish any “make-up” speeches due to absences and begin our final speech of the year next week. If you have not given me the topic for your Persuasive speech, don’t forget to email me by Friday. Use this speech to perfect all of the pointers we have discussed throughout the semester. Remember that this is an extemporaneous speech, not a manuscript! Tell it to us with references to your notes, but do NOT read it to us. Concentrate on eye contact and vocal and facial expression.

Adventures in American Literature

Review for the final test on The Giver by completing the Chronolog on page 13 of your study guide. Read the two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay on pages 160 and 161 and answer the questions that follow.

Read “The Mending Wall” by Robert Frost and answer the two questions on p 148.

Read or listen to “The Road Not Taken” by Frost and be prepared to discuss its meaning.

Read the short story The Last Leaf by O. Henry or listen to it note the typical situational irony.

No-Spin Economics

We will have a test on Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Chapters 1-13. We will do a review game in class before the test. Use your chapter summary sheets to review and look over the past tests and quizzes.

Watch our last video Crash Course Economics #12 and complete the study guide you were given.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Review for our test on To Kill a Mockingbird by completing the Chronolog on page 16 in your study guide. Be prepared for a quiz on the background material for this book. The quiz will come from pages 18-26 in your guide.

Watch the following final scenes from the novel:

Previous Assignments:

• 05/06/2019
• 04/29/2019
• 04/22/2019
• 04/15/2019
• 04/08/2019

Assignments due for the week of May 6th, 2019

Practical Public Speaking

Great job on both Informative and Demonstration speeches today. I’m always amazed at the unique variety of subjects you show or tell us about. Such fun!! We will finish our Demonstration speeches next week and any other make-up speeches due to absences. Be thinking about your final speech topic. We talked about the Persuasive speech today. Be prepared to give me your selected subject next week in class.

Adventures in American Literature

Finish your reading of The Giver by Lois Lowry by reading Chapters 13-23 and answering questions 31-48 in your study guide. Look over the Discussion Questions on page 10 as we will talk about these in class. If you did not watch the video from last week on the “Dystopian Novel” please check the Previous Assignments (April 29) and watch the short commentary.

No-Spin Economics

Watch Crash Course Economics videos #10 and #11 and complete the study sheets you were given in class.

In preparation for our review of the book Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, read Chapter 13 (Summary) and go over the notes for that chapter that you were given in class.

If for some reason, you did not look at the U.S. National Debt clock or watch the video describing the extent of “a trillion”, please go back to the April 29th week of assignments and view those short sites.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Finish your reading of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, by reading Chapters 15-31 and answering questions 35-72 in your study guide. Notice the development of the novel’s central themes: education, prejudice, trust, truth, and femininity. We will take the quizzes on the two sections of the book that you read. (Chapters 1-14 and Chapters 15-31)

Watch the following videos to “put a face” on the main characters:

Previous Assignments:

• 04/29/2019
• 04/22/2019
• 04/15/2019
• 04/08/2019

Assignments due for the week of April 29th, 2019

Practical Public Speaking

Be prepared to finish any Informative speeches we have not yet done due to absences. We will begin and enjoy our Demonstration speeches in our next class. If you have not yet given me your subject for this speech, be sure to email me by Friday, April 26.

Adventures in American Literature

Begin our next book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, by reading Chapters 1-12 and answering questions 1-30 in your new study guide. At the age of 82, she is still alive today! Note the characteristics of a dystopian novel and identify what freedoms have been given up to achieve this way of life.

Watch the following video about dystopias in literature:

No-Spin Economics

Read Chapters 10-12 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? We will discuss the ideas and principles in class. Watch Crash Course Economics video #9 and complete the study guide you were given in class.

Look at the website of the national debt. Locate the total debt (under “U.S. National Debt”) in the upper lefthand corner. How long does it take for the U.S. to add $1,000,000 to our national debt total?

Watch the following brief video to get a better idea of how much one trillion dollars actually is.

Review today’s assignment for a quiz next week. Penny Candy Chapters 7-9 and Crash Course Economics video #7.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Begin our last novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, by reading Chapters 1-14 and answering questions 1-34 in your new study guide. Observe the detailed use of “local color” throughout this section and watch for details of the historical time period. (during and after the Great Depression in the deep South).

Previous Assignments:

• 04/22/2019
• 04/15/2019
• 04/08/2019

Assignments due for the week of April 22nd, 2019

Practical Public Speaking

Great start on very “informative” speeches today! Make sure to be prepared to finish the Informative speeches next week. Also, be thinking about what you would like to do for your Demonstration speech and let me know in class.

Adventures in American Literature

We will finish our discussion of “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” next week. Continue analyzing Stephen Crane’s poetry on pages 130-135 and answer the questions given.

Read Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire” (PDF).

If you prefer, you can also listen to “To Build a Fire”:

Answer the questions on page 136 in your notebook and be prepared for a quiz on the story.

Read the short story “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry on pages 137-139 in your notebook. Note the situational irony so typical of all of O. Henry’s stories. We will do page 140 together in class.

Read the two excerpts on satire. There is a selection from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis on pages 149-150. Answer the three questions on page 151. Then read the modern selection by Erma Bombeck on pages 152 and 153 and answer the comparison questions on page 154.

No-Spin Economics

Great job on the review of Crash Course Lessons 1-6 today! Read Chapters 7-9 in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? We will get a more in-depth look at inflation. I will give you review sheets from these chapters to study.

Also watch the Crash Course video #7—Inflation, Bubbles, and Tulips and complete the study guide you were given in class.

Quick Looks at Great Books

We will have a review game and final test on The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Review by completing the Chronolog on page 13 of your study guide.

Make sure you have completed all the assigned terms in your Literary Terms notebook.

Watch the following video for historical background on our next novel—To Kill a Mockingbird.

Watch the following brief video on the life of author Harper Lee:

Previous Assignments

• 04/15/2019
• 04/08/2019

Assignments due for the week of April 15th, 2019

Practical Public Speaking

Fantastic job on Impromptu speeches today!! Such interesting stories, enthusiasm, and natural gestures! Be prepared to present your Informative speech in our next class. Don’t forget to have an outline ready to hand in when you do your speech. Your outline and speech should include an introduction, body, and conclusion and should be 5-7 minutes in length. (Practice out loud.) Focus on eye contact, articulation, and intonation as you prepare.

Adventures in American Literature

Read Twain’s excerpts and stories on pages 117-127 and answer the questions about each one.

Read “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte and complete pages 128 and 129 about the characters in the story.

Read Mark Twain’s short story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, and be prepared for a quiz on the two stories.

If you had an assigned report for next week, please be prepared to give it.

No-Spin Economics

Great job on our Coins and Currency review today! Watch the following video on “Productivity and Growth” and complete the study guide you were given in class.

Study all of our past Crash Course videos for a test. (#1–#6) You can review from the study guides we have gone over and watch the past videos if needed. We will do a game review before we take the test.

We will also illustrate the Free Trade principle through a game.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Complete your reading of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Answer at least five study guide questions from each of the “four days” in the book. We will discuss the book and the study guide as well as take quizzes on the story.

Previous Assignments

04/08/2019

Assignments due for the week of April 8th, 2019

Practical Public Speaking

Now that you have chosen a topic for your informative speech, use any time you have free before we come back to class to research your subject. Make sure you can find enough information for a 5-7 minute speech. The Informative speech will be due on Monday, April 15.

Adventures in American Literature

If you were assigned an American short story to report on, don’t forget to be prepared to tell the story to the class when we return. Also, remember that we will be reading The Giver by Lois Lowry after our spring break.

No-Spin Economics

Review the information sheets you were given on U.S. coins and currency, the $1 bill, and the new $100 bill. In order to make up some of our work from snow days, we will have our quizzes on this information when we return. We will also review with a game before the quizzes.

Quick Looks at Great Books

Great job with our final review and discussion of The Count of Monte Cristo! Our next book will be The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. We will read the book in one week when we return. If you would like an early start, feel free! 🙂 Be sure to bring your completed Literary Terms notebook to our next class. We will discuss many of the terms you have already completed.