Eleventh Grade - Third Reporting Period
April 15 - May 31, 2002
English
World Literature: Read Don Quixote pp.146-198, some of The Prince, by Machiavelli, Sophie, by Gaardner, pp.434-513, I Maccabees 1:1- 6:27, wrote 3 short papers.
Writing (taught by Robin Kempert): Examined student essay for certain elements; wrote an editorial, an advertisement, a poem; compiled a portfolio containing research paper, took test over literary terms and annotation of research papers (final grade: 98).
Algebra 2 - Logarithms, started Advanced Mathematics.
American History - Vietnam War, Watergate, Iran hostage crisis, Reagan administration, end of Cold War, Persian Gulf War, current events from World Magazine.
Economics - Purposes of government, macroeconomics, dangers, Keynesianism economics vs. monetarism, relationship between a free economy and political liberty, comparison of market and command economies, business cycles, inflation.
Physics - Navigation, projectile motion, and range.
German - Listening to tapes of vignettes accompanied by text and pictures (Lessons 1 - 16 of Basic Structures for Learnables Book 2).
Latin - Simple translation (Lessons VIII-XI, Latina Christiana).