Grade 6 – Study your Latin vocabulary and endings for a quiz on Friday. Continue to make final corrections to the rough draft of your paper on patriotism. Read Chapter XIII, “An Italian Scholar” in The Count of Monte Cristo aloud to an adult and have them sign your reading log. Answer the following study questions:
1. Who is the Italian scholar?
2. What does Faria teach Dantès?
3. What is their new plan?
4. How long do they work on it?
5. What type of attack does Faria suffer?
Grade 7 - Study your Latin vocabulary and endings for a quiz on Friday. Draw a political cartoon illustrating sentiment in America during the 1920s about ONE of the following social or political issues: the aftermath of WWI, prohibition, suffrage, the Red menace, strikes/labor unrest, the economy/cost of living, radicalism/terrorism, immigration, OR international tensions. Finish reading Chapter X (p. 125-133) in My Early Life aloud to an adult and have them sign your reading log.
Grade 8 - Study your Latin vocabulary and endings for a quiz on Friday. Read Chaps. 17 and 18 in Pride and Prejudice aloud to an adult and have them sign your reading log. Write a page explaining the importance the following two Supreme Court cases: Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. the Board of Education.
