English 10: Look here for your homework over the break

 Finish reading Animal Farm.

Complete the questions for chapter 8-10 (so finish the book), complete the vocab for each section, and as best you can complete the comparison handout for Russia and Animal Farm.

Test on Tuesday.

English 11: Look here for your homework over the break (make sure you read to the bottom of this post)

 English 11

Research Topics Related to Of Mice and Men

Our new unit takes place around the 1930s in California, USA. 

Research one page of notes (TYPED OR WRITTEN) on the following topics nd cite your sources.

Evaluate the sources before you use them.

As much as possible search for information in the 1920s- 1930s of America.

The Great Depression:  

• When was it? 

• Why did it happen? 

• Who was affected? 

• What attempts were made to fix it in America?

Intellectual Disability (formerly Mental Retardation): What is it? 

• What factors cause it? 

• What is/has been public perception toward it?

• What are the different types?

Migrant Workers: 

• Who were they? 

• What type of work did they do? 

• What were the conditions like in which they worked?

• Where were migrations movements (to and from?

Euthanasia:

• What is it? 

• What are the different views? 

• Where has it been practiced? 

• What is the current law in Canada?

Racism: 

• How were blacks viewed in America during the first half of the twentieth century? 

• How were they affected by the Depression? Where did blacks primarily live in America?

• What laws kept blacks oppressed? (Jim Crow)

• What progress blacks made since the end of slavery in America

***We will present this on Tuesday after getting into the opening 'chapter' of Of Mice and Men.

For Monday: read the first section (pages 1-37).

Answer the questions on the handout: uncover the plot (circle the right option), 5Ws+H, Who is this?,

Who said that?, A complicated friendship.

Casz Day!

 Philosophy 12

Have another look at the Socialist Attack on Capitalism (by reading up to the end of 151) and answer the following questions:

1. Why is "industrial capitalism" not rational?

2. What exactly is the "material base"?

3. Why is the third element the most important?

4. How does this third element  lead to a class system?

5. How do the ruling class remain so and how is the church complicit?

6. Define superstructure and explain how its connected to the base.

7. Show a similarity in relationships between lords and serfs and capitalism today.

8. How do people move into a ruling class?

9. In essence, what is the problem of capitalism, according to Marx?

10.  Paraphrase the 'paradox' of capitalism.

English 10

Compete chapter 7 and questions. And, hey, try a vocab word!

Do you Wordle?

 English 10

Finish chapter 6 and questions.

English 11

I said homework-- but after a test and handing in a writing assignment, take the night off! 

Philosophy 12

Just the last page and a bit to finish:reading up to page 147.

Dress to (casually) impress tomorrow!

Tuesday. Chapel's back!

Philosophy 12

John Stuart Mill and Classical Laissez-Faire Liberalism
Homework Questions Pages 134- 142 (top half)

The following questions are designed to help you unpack the ideas expressed in the first section of this reading. Answer them to the best of your ability. Either underline the answer in your package, write out answers on paper or type out your responses on a doc, but be prepared to discuss and deliberate (see what I did there?).

1. What is an empiricist?

2. What is utilitarianism in the context of this chapter, not as related to ethics.

3. Define eloquence.

4. How did John Stuart Mill’s upbringing contribute to his career life?

5. Search the major reforms of the Reform Bill of 1832.

6. How did John Stuart Mill revise his father, James’, vision, and what effect did it produce in him?

7. What was Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy?

8. Define abstruse.

9. How does Bentham’s philosophy on pleasure and pain lead to more democracy in society?

10. How do superstition and ignorance promote injustice and inequality in society and how is education the antidote?

11. How do you define a Laissez-faire economy?

12. How are ‘undertakers’ involved in the economy?

13. What does the notion of capitalism assume?

14. How did Mill disagree with Bentham’s teaching?

15. How does Mill determine which pleasures are to be placed above others?

16. What problems arise in JSM’s theory on pleasure?

17. Upon which two assumptions does Laissez-Faire depend?

English 11

Test on Short Story Unit tomorrow. In case a few of you missed some classes and, thus, some notes HERE  are my slides. You're welcome!😉

English 10

Read Chapter 5 of Animal Farm and complete the questions.

Last Monday of Classes for a While!

 Philosophy 12

Let's talk social and political philosophy:
Please read pages 134-140 including James' bio on page 135.
This will give you a good introduction on who John Stuart Mill was.
Skip the except from Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nation's' on page 138 but read his little bio on page 139.
Answer these questions in bullet form response:

Why was the theory of utilitarianism appropriate for its time period?
List 3 important points of JSM or his father James.

English 11

Complete your newspaper article for tomorrow (rough drafts for peer editing)...good copy due Wednesday and your short story unit test is also this Wednesday.

English 10

Read chapter 4 and complete your Seven Commandments due tomorrow.