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.